Hi, Thanks to everyone who replied. I decided to partition the HDD into two 10G partitions which resulted in 8K clusters after each partition was formatted. The second partition is logical drive "D:". Brad

Hi, Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction with regards to the "initial" track position (inside) when you first insert a data CD. Another very important question: Is there a physical "stop" that stops the head (the head moves toward the center of the CD and "hits" a physical...

Hi, I have been told that a data cd (also audio cd) is first "read" from the middle track. Another person told me that it is first "read" from the inside track. I always thought it was first read from the outside (near the edge) track. Can someone, who really knows, tell me where the first...

Hi, I have a Quantum "Fireball" 1.2GB HDD that went bad. I got a message regarding a problem with the "controller". I swapped the controller (same controller) from a similar HDD and I still get the same message. I am trying to recover some files on the HDD. Could a hardware fault cause a...

Hi, Has anyone used a flash drive ("thumb" drive) after booting a computer using a floppy boot disk (A: drive)? Note: Windows is not launched. I want to transfer "stuff" from C: drive to the flash drive. Thanks in advance, Brad

Hi, See my original post below. The only problem (major problem) with the CD Rom drive is the initial access when I first insert a data CD rom (or audio CD), even when laptop is on for awhile and warmed up. I have to insert it many times before I finally have access (if I am lucky). Note: Each...

Hi, I removed a 800MB hdd, with two partitions (two logical drives), from one computer and put it in an older Compaq 386 computer. Both computers have the same MsDos 6.22 systems. The 386 can access all the space in "C:" drive, but when I try to access "D:" drive, I get an "invalid drive...

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, I installed a 20G HDD in my Windows 98se computer. With one partition, I formatted it. The results is 16K byte clusters. With a FAT32 system, a 32 bit number ("index") can represent around 4.3G. This in effect should allow around 4 billion clusters maximum. The major reason for a...

Hi, Thanks to everyone who replied. I decided to partition the HDD into two 10G partitions which resulted in 8K clusters after each partition was formatted. The second partition is logical drive "D:". Brad

I installed a slaved 80gig HD because the primary HD had gotten to small. Win 98 recognizes C drive and the new D drive but but does not recognize the now e and f cdrom and cd/rw. The two cds are connected directly to the motherboard (Gateway).

I have an older laptop running Win 98 SE. It is totally unusable do to Spyware problems. I've tried every method that I've been able to find, but the system has basically ground to a halt - it's unusable. I'm planning to wipe the hard disk and re-install the OS. I need to make a bootable...

I tried uninstalling Windows 98 with the same CD-Rom I installed it with. But there is a message saying that the CD-Rom Disk is from an older version of Windows than the one I am presently using. So, setup functionality from the disk is being disabled, not allowing me to uninstall it!!!! Any...

Help! I have two computers. One is a Compaq Deskpro EN which had Windows 2000 professional on it. I bought the computer second hand but was given no boot disk or otherwise. I don't have a product key for OS. The problem is that I was having severe problems with the computer to where I had to format...

I have the same problem but I need to download it to disks to install on my other computer. I have my ser. # but can't find a download.

I have a laptop with Windows 98. It has 3 seperate partitions as it will not support a hard drive larger than 2 GB. I have tried to copy files from one drive partition to another and the computer speaker will beep and the file will not even attempt to copy or move. I have an external drive and I...

I'm working on a clients machine and scan disk will not load. Already ran spyware removal.

i have a scsi drive running on win98 and another scsi drive with all of my data i want to install into the same computer. The computer used to be run on windows 95 but is upgraded to win98. I installed the drive but don't know how to make the computer reccognize it. Help brian

Hi, hopefully someone can help, I am running Windows 98, and usually when I try to connect to AOL, a dialog box comes up and tells me that my hard drive is full and that it needs to empty some files, so I do, but my drive is nowhere near full. Also, this sometimes occurs during boot up. I check...

Hi, hopefully someone can help, I am running Windows 98, and usually when I try to connect to AOL, a dialog box comes up and tells me that my hard drive is full and that it needs to empty some files, so I do, but my drive is nowhere near full. Also, this sometimes occurs during boot up. I check...