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After trying to install an ethernet card(unsucessfully)in Win 98. I found that my CD rom drive was inacessable. I checked with the Device manager and it says the unit is functioning properly. It has power and the tray moves in and out but Windows says there is no disk in the drive. Safe mode gave...

I use a AMD ATHLON 1100 MHZ, 256 MB RAM, Windows 98. The start-up phase shows the cd-rw & dvd drive, however, the drives are not accessible and do not even show up in the device manager. This used to be an intermittent problem and now is all the time. Please help!

I have an 80 GB drive. I just installed Windows 98. I wanted to partition the drive to run dual boot between Windows 98 and Windows XP. I am not able to partition the drive nor install Windows XP. Can you help? Thanks.

Problem with CD drive. Drive won't work. Message says, "Unable to access drive E: The drive is locked by a disk utility." System utilities says that CD drive is working correctly.

Hi, My HD is almost full, leaving about 10% free and I begin to get error = signs from the PC. Its maximum size is 15 Go. I have W98 running on a PIII 450 Mhz. The obvious option would be to = change for a new bigger disk. But I am told W98 limits memory size to 30 = Go. Could I get more if I...

I've got Win '98 on an IBM ThinkPad. Used to have a C & D drive, but they were combined by a program. Now when I try to access the CD-ROM drive I get "program.exe" can't be found, which it says is needed to run the drive. It appears to recognize the correct drive because if I put in a CD & look at...

hi i have a 2 gb hd. i ran fdisk and set up 1 active partition. next i ran format and it stops b4 completeing leaving me with an unformmatted c: drive. if i rerun fdisk and set the partition to 1gb (half of my 2gb drive) it will then complete the format, but where did half of my useful space go?

Cannot boot up. I can see C: in dos but windows won't load as usual! Since our manufacturing system is down my boss has given me this other machine to play with and attempt to fix. I am running win98 and it just plain won't boot into windows. With a boot disk I can get into C. I have run scandisk...

Hello all, I have a system with one hard drive divided into two partitions, I have win98se on the primary partition and win xp pro on the secondary. I've been running this config for about two years with no major problems except that several times now, the most recent being yesterday, most of my...

I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. I get the error message"Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device 3, service B" whenever I try to open Windows in normal mode. I can successfully open in safe mode, just like the article #306482 in the Microsoft knowledge base. I tried all of the...

Will reformatting a hd overwrite and rebuild the boot sector (MBR)? thank you!! -- ************************************************************************** Stephen Lo, Vancouver, BC., CA.

Hi That setting is correct... already unchecked... thanks! For starters, go to Start- RUN, and type in "msconfig" and hit enter. On the general tab, click the "advanced" button, and then see if "Disable Scandisk after bad shutdown" is checked. If it is, then uncheck it. Then

Don't have a clue how to get to the "newsgroup reply area" Question is really simple, I lose my rom drives (regular cd rom and the rewriter) when I do a restart. Yeah I've checked the cable, checked the drives themselves, scanned for viruses, uninstalled and re- installed, tried to update latest...

When I turn on the computer, the screen with windows 98 comes on for couple seconds. Then a black screen with missing files of windows\HIMEM.sys , windows\DBLBUFF.sys , windows\IFSHLP.sys appears

my machine opens to and request that i type comman interpert to load windows, with a ie (c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND WHAT DO I TYPE?

Hello !!! I am using win98 FAT 32 file system, a mont before i have found a file lock utality Compaq's Presario Vault Ver.1.00 to lock phsically the files, it worked very cool. But unfortunatly i have had to format my partition c:, all was okay but the locked file could not recovered since then...

Somehow my PC is asking for USBHUB.SYS. It asks for the Windows 98 Cd-Rom but it still can't find it. Does anyone know where to find a copy of this for Windows 98 thank you

Hi all, I've just obained a 5 year old machine with a fresh install of Win98SE. I've checked the BIOS and it says the HD is 10Gb (opening the machine to install other hardware and physically looking at the printed text on the HD has confirmed this). I go into properties on C: drive and it says...

Win 98 drvspace Compressed-drives running in Compatibility mode. I am using Win 98 second edition. I cannot install any new Applications Because after a reboot, right-click MyComputer Properties Performance: all my drvspace/dblspace drives are running in "Compatibility Mode". So,...