Have a friend who operates under Win 98. I tried to give him some assistance with printer, etc. and came across this problem, we can't open his disk drive to change CDROM's, and answer we get back is basically 'D Drive is not recognizable or words to that effect'. There is no pinhole to open it,...

Hi, I am in the process of finding out by "trial and error" the cause of whining noise coming from my mini tower.It's not the PSU fan or CPU fan so I assume it's either the PSU or hard disk at fault. I have replacements for both coming and the hard disk will be an exact model swap. My main concern...

I am trying to get a flash drive to work on my machine running W98, but the system cannot find the correct driver. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Mike

Will a quick restore disk restore missing files from the Windows 98 startup menu prompt commands? i cant get to my icons at all. an explorer error keeps poping up right before i get to the icons on the desktop. i no longer have have the original disk that came with the computer, but i do have the...

Hi I have win98se and have receive a HD to add to my system to back up some files to that I want to save so I can upgrade my machine soon. first: I had the hd checked for errors and checked ok. it is a complete empty hd too. Heres where I am so far. I installed the HD into my tower. Made sure...

don't know if this is the right place-my friend asked me to go to bootdisk.com scroll down to 98 SE and copy- can't find it when i scroll down-he is having no audio

Please send an Email with a Win (* startup dsisk as an attachment.(( anyone, lpeasew.

I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk. Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing partition,pressed y, 4512M) asked the ? do you want to boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have a black screen...

Hi all, I have an SATA 160G HD formatted in WinXP as FAT32. But everytime I boot up Windows 98 SE it hangs. I wonder if it is the size of the HD or the SATA interface that has a problem with Win98. Please help. Thanks

I have an old thinkpad 240x with a pcmcia cdrom. I can't boot up from the cdrom as without an operating system the laptop won't see it...so I removed the hard drive from my laptop and using it as the hard drive on my desk top I installed Win 98 SE on it I also made a boot floppy in...

I have 13 Win98SE OEM unopened. Comes with Book with product key on front and the CD in a hard case. Also have 8 Win98 OEM in same condition as above. All in like new condition. They are not proprietary, will load on any computer. $30.00 each or $400.00 for the lot.

I HAVE WINDOWS 98 AND I WISH TO INSTALL WINDOWS 2000 BUT THE MESSAGE ON MY COMPUTER TELLS ME I HAVE TO GET AT LEAST 638M FREE DISK SPACE ON THE DRIVE, HOW DO I DO THIS?

I have a problem with my system I can get windows 98 i just have the wallpaper but not icons or the star bar I tryed to fixid using the rescue disk but nathing hapend i just have the error window for IE

I lost my Windows 98(se) CD, but I do have the CD Key, and I am the one that the disc is registered to.

I read a few posts from people whose Windows original CDROM had become unreadable. One easy way to avoid this if you're adding/repairing bits a lot is to backup the entire CDROM contents to hard disk (e.g. to a folder called C:\Copies\Windows98SE\). I do that with most of my software CDROMs, and...

I'm looking to purchase Windows 98SE on a market like ebay or from another source. What is the difference between a full load version and a full OEM version? Also, once I find an original full version to buy, how I can determine whether it's the latest produced? In otherwords, I want to shop for...

After reading a zip disk the properties function always displays the initial zip disks capacity even though you have an empty disk in the drive. The Microsoft Backup program thinks the disk is full and will not write to it. Is there a fix?

Need a copy of smartvsd.vxd referenced in KBA 238811 win98_54.cab file

When turning on computer it asks for boot disk, when i try an install without formatting i get disk errors. and at the dos prompt i can only read my A: drive. trying to read or format my C: gives a bad command. is there any help out there. Thanks

As the subject line says whats the biggest drive it can support. My hard drive died and the shop put an 80GB in it and i bought Win XP home edition but too many of my old programs wont run properly with it so want to go back to Win 98 where they all work fine. However it only is recognising 10GB...