I feel so limited only being able to buy SanDisk Cruzer flash drives because they are the only one I know of that will work with my old Windows 98SE computer. What other brand of thumb drives can I buy and where can I obtain the drivers to use them?

ssome wrote: The next logical step was to see if the WD s/w for 137GB will work on other mfgrs HDs. i tried it on a Maxtor 30 GB HD by partitioning it into 2 parts. It worked. It did give a disclaimer about a diff mfgr when i selected the HD to be worked on. The software in...

As title suggests, i have a PC which stopped working, so though id connect both hard drives up on one, both were running win98SE, but one owuldn't work....though it was a bit strange, but then i thought 'you cant really just plug them both in and ecxpect it to work!', so took out the 2nd one,...

Hi, Recently, I started to have trouble with my HDD (slow access). When I performed a "surface scan" (via scandisk), accessing clusters was slow and "jerky". I aborted the surface scan because it was going to take a very long time. Note: The HDD is 8 Gig. Note: Last year,...

Hi Glee, Thanks for all that information. I forgot to mention that this is a Seagate HDD. Brad On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:11:33 -0500, in microsoft.public.win98.disks.general you

Can I ask a question about a floppy disk drive in this ng or is it just for hdd issues? -- { : =( DaffyD® If I knew where I was I'd be there now.

Burning a cd with content (a folder with video files) in it from a new vista computer, I take it to my old win 98 computer and the content of the cd does not show up! The old computer does, however, shows only that there is 455mb taken up on the cd. Also, I know that the content is on the cd...

Hi Gary, What OS can you launch off a CD, that allows you to use a flash drive? Thanks in advance, Brad On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:57:40 -0800, in microsoft.public.win98.disks.general you wrote:

Hi Brad, It seems to me that just a couple of days ago someone wanted to try something similar. Unfortunately, I didn't pay it any mind. :( I would get busy contacting the various mobo mfgrs. and see if they have something to fit the bill. -- HTH, Curt

Where can I get a new Win98 CD? Mine (that came with the computer) is cracked and I need it to configure a network router. Any suggestions? If there's a place to download I can copy a new CD. Thanks!

Every file or picture I download becomes a Binder Document, then you try to open it and you get an error message saying this is not a Binder File, I cant find out how to change it? Cany anyone tell me please?

When installing Windows 98 SE using the original CD ROM, I get his message: Not enough space on D To install Win 98 on drive C, you need 21 mb of space on D. D has only 1.4 mb To take care of this problem, please remove some files from hard drive. Hard drive is drive C. How would that free...

98 Guy wrote: "Formatting 41,86.65M" That's when I left the computer (running at my office). I wasn't going to hang around for an hour while it formatted the drive. I'll check back later today and see how it finished the job. Ok, here's the result:

The ZIP Folders on my computer have being corrupted ever since installing WinZIP. Upon uninstalling because it was of no use to me, it removed the ZIP file extension. What is the command line for the ZIP folders...

I tried setup /is, looked like it would work, then this message popped up: "There is a crosslinked file on drive c, Run scandisk /all from setup disk 1 or win98 compact disk to fix the problem. Setup cannot continue." I tried running scandisk but it wants to fix a problem with every file in every...

1. Do you have Tweak UI installed? If so, go to My Computer tab and put marks in all drives. 2. Check for a lastdrive statement in the config.sys file and if it exists, make sure it reads: lastdrive=z 3. Run regedit.exe and open it to this...

run msconfig click on the startup tab disble all item by clearing the check box. restart the windows. If the problem solved enable the item one by one (do not enable unwanted programes on the startup) the point where the problem appear again disable those item permanantly. -----Original...

I just started having a strange problem with my Win 98SE system When I do a restart after a Win hangup, the system used to do a scandisk while in Dos to check the files. Well that worked for a number of years. Now, when it starts doing the automatic scandisk, I get the initial small blue screen,...

A phenomenon I have observed in Windows XP is that when I compact in = Outlook Express before running Disk Defragmenter then file fragmentation = is less when Disk Defragmenter analyses the disk. ~~~~~~ Hope this helps.