My primary hard disc has 8 partitions (C-J). I have a cd/dvd unit (K). I also have a removable hard disc with two partitions, which is attached via a usb port. When I attach the usb disc it becomes L and M, which is fine. However, if it is attached when I start up, the first partition on the...

I recently upgraded my windows from 98 to XP. In my impatience I completly forgot to backup any files or do any major preparation for an upgrade. My old documents are now gone and I was wondering if there is any possible way to retreive them be it downgrading back to 98 or something of that...

My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS problem I think. I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected it to my XP Pro laptop. The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT - these are all readable. But one...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...

Hi all, Urgent question Running a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the original disk Fujitsu 10Gig is about to die Trying to replace with a 30Gig Hitachi Travelstar IC25N030A Formatted, did clean install Win98SE Boots to windows, boots to DOS The disk led stays on steady, even in DOS when the machine is...

Hi, I would like to perform a low level format on a Western Digital 3.2G HDD. Note: "Format", that comes with the OS, only does high level formatting. Do you know where I can get a generic low level HDD formatter program? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card...

Hi, I have a HDD with 16 physical heads according to the label on the HDD. When this HDD was installed, partitioned, formatted, etc., a "Block Information" program shows this HDD has "128" heads, which I assume to be "logical" heads. What "logical" heads would physical head "0" (zero based)...

Hello Newsgroups I am mainly familiar with Win2K and WinXP installs, so when I get a Win98 box to fix, I am oftened stumbled. The case: I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way...

For some reason, my C disk is suddenly full when previously there was 1 GB of memory free. The capacity on this disk is 4.75 GB and it is saying I have used 4.7 (up from 3.7 previously). I haven't downloaded anything recently except for ie6, which isn't even close to that size. I don't know much...

I bought the above mentioned drive last week, and downloaded the Win98 drivers (M20.zip) from PNY's website. I unzipped the file and ran the ..exe with no apparent problem. However, when I insert the flash drive, W98 detects is and tries to find the drivers, but can't find anything that is...

I just did a reinstall of 98SE for a friend. I'm trying to set up her broadband service, but the DSL SetUp says the minimum RAM requirement is 64 MB. She only has 32 MB, and it's an old laptop, so upgrading isn't a viable option. She has been able to use DSL on this machine with 98 before...

i am running WIN 98SE on a 166 PC,, ( i had it rebuilt and was running great for 2 weeks) i shut it off after every use and was using just for internet. so when i started up tonite i get this error message. "cannot start Windows. because VMM32.VXD was not found or is damaged. need to run setup...

system stuck on "checking for errors". It goes from 0% to 1% then back to 0% complete. why? What can I do to get it to defrag. thanks a bunch in advance.

I am trying to install win 98 on a 95 laptop, formatted the hard drive etc but how can I install 98 if I have to switch drives (completely take out floppy to put in 98SE disk. is there a solution? a friend told me there is a way to copy the floppy to the hd then start but how? help greatly...

I have two Dell computers that both came preinstalled with Win98. I now need to reformat one of them, but I can only find one CD and I don't know which one it is. I have a product key for both computers. I saw this in another post: "US customers can contact Microsoft at: 1 800 642-7676. They...

I am working on a problem for a friend from church and have never encountered a problem such as the one about to be described. Sometimes when the system is booting a "Disk write error. Unable to write to the disk drive c:" message is displayed. The error dialog box provides an OK button which...

Suddenly I cannot use my CDRom. All I get is a message saying "J:\is not accessible. The device is not ready". Device Manager says it is working properly but it isn't? I cannot load any new software now so I am really stuck. Anyone got any suggestions please?

Scandisk tells me I have an error and, once it begins to repair it, I get another error that says "An error occured while scan disk was attempting to correct the previous error. Complete a thorough check of this drive, then run scan disk again and choose to conduct a standard test". When I do this...

Im Havin problems booting my my WIN98SE computer. It keeps pulling a "Windows Protection Error" on me. I tried many of the steps in in KB article 188867 and article 302956 (except disabling items in Device manager and dealing with TSR's). So, I tried to replace my current slave drive on my WINME...

Hi All, I could use some help, please: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Thanks in Advance