I have win98 on a CD and want to install it on an old laptop without cd-drive. can I transfer win98 to 3.5 disks? peter

Win98SE. I have an 80GB USB drive formatted to NTFS. I installed the drivers that came with it onto Win98SE. I plug in the drive. P&P recognizes it and I can see it in the Device Manager. But I cannot see it in My Computer or anywhere else. I know I will have to reformat it as FAT, but I can't...

I have two W98 systems, with two very different IE Favorites Folder. I want to combine the IE Favorites folder that is each machine, into a single Folder. In other words, append, versus export/import. When I use import/export, as expected, one folder overwrites the other--which is exactly what I...

I have windows 98 on my computer, I have tried to upgrade to win 2000 but during installating when the software is "checking files" or something like that the upgrade software hangs and I have to cancel the upgrade. Upon further inspection I discovered that the directory that the program...

I have been trying to update Firmware for my CD writer, and turning OFF DMA may be required. However there is no checkbox to facilitate this action. In fact, none of my devices has a checbox to either turn DMA 'on' OR 'off'. I am pretty sure that I have seen this available in the past, but am...

Help - I compressed some external zip disks. My hard drive crashed and W98 was reinstalled. However, it was evidently re-installed without the utility Drivespace, which I need to uncompress and access the compressed zip disks. Any ideas? Thanks in...

I am unable to remap to network drives after recently installing a new win98SE update. Error indicates that network drive cannot be found. What can be done to correct the problem?

I am running Win98se and am planning to add a multichannel ATA raid controller with 8x250gb drives as a single JBOD array. I am trying to determine whether the known FDISK and/or FORMAT limitations of 137gB will come into play here. According to the Win98se resource kit FAT32 can address upto 2tB...

HELP... Everytime I log in I get a window which says that I'm missing a file : fntldr.exe When I close the window, another pops up which says the file fntdr.exe should be in win.ini When I close this sencond window, the system finishes loading the desk top icons and seems to work normally.

Have be using Maxtor 30GB drive as second drive for several years without problem via Maxtor ATA card. Recently installed Norton Systemworks 2005 with Go Back. Ran updates, and Go Back update "removed" Go Back info on drives D,E,F (my partitions on this drive) during update process. Seems it...

Have a laptop running Win98. I have a Windows 98SE upgrade disk. Can I use this to make my laptop OS Win98SE without loosing any settings?

I need to rescue some files from a hard drive that has windows 98, Can I plug in this hard drive into my computer that has win Xp and copy those files? -- thanks

I originally had a 4.00gb HD as my main C:\ drive (with call of my system files on it)....the drive was also partitioned to create 3 drives...Drives C:\, E:\, F:\. Over time it has out grown the small size and I decided to install a new drive. I also have a 2ndary drive that I have data files on. ...

I just recently installed the driver for a usb flash drive (memory key) onto my win 98SE computer but every time I plug it into my USB port, my computer goes blue and tells me that there was an error and the computer basically can only be shut down from there. How can I use my key without a fatal...

Hello, I am running Windows 98se. My Girlfriend, bless her soul, created two password based users, for she and I, and logged in using her username and password. She then personalized her desktop by putting a couple folders that I had there into the recycle bin. I asked her "are you sure those...

When I change the connection settings on the internet options menu, they revert to old (default?) values when I reboot. Is there some way to make the parameters I set stay that way?. I seem to recall a button that does this but I cant find it. Thanks.

Hi I have 2 MP3 players and 1 digital camera - all of which happily connected via a USB hub and appeared as removable disks when connected (F:, G: etc). win98SE no longer seems to do this. Although the MP3 player still appears to be recognised - (Looking in the System, Devices screen a USB R/W...

Hi all, This problem is really baffling me. I have two hard drives on the primary controller both set as master, and I select ( via a DIY power switch) which one I want to use before boot up. One has win xp, and the other has win 98se. On the secondary controller I had dvd-rom as master, and...

Hi, I removed a 750 meg hdd from a computer, which was partitioned into two logical drives (520 meg and 230 meg). I installed it in a 1988 Compaq 386 computer with Dos 6.22. Bios can not "see" above 520 meg, therefore I can not access the 230 meg partition. Is it possible to use an "overlay" ...

I have a Win. 98se machine that I installed a Math program for my kid on. The install went fine but it will not open the software. Error that I get: Error starting program The COMCTL32.dll file cannot start. Check the file to determine the problem. I decided to uninstall the program but it will...