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vmm32.vxd problem by Jesper Nielsen
I have a problems with a Win98 machine that wiil not run after being update with Windows Update. The vmm32.vxd is missing, and I followed this atricle http://www.infinisource.com/techfiles/vmm32.html. I found all the vxd's, made de wininit.ini, but when booting I get this error: Windows could not...
August 30th 04 07:46 PM
by cquirke (MVP Win9x) Go to last post
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Windows 98SE Hangs at first startup during setup... Win 2000 too.. by [Koen]
I've got a Toshiba Libretto 100CT laptop (love those sub-notebooks :) ), it's in it's original state exept for the harddrive, i've put a 40GB replacement in. I haven't got a floppy or a CD-romdrive with it, so to install windows i put the harddrive in a other laptop, formattet the drive there...
September 26th 05 08:20 PM
by PattyL Go to last post
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Windows software and a used hard drive. by Tommy
Hey all heres whats up. I was at the salvation army and found the sweetest Compaq Deskpro EN with Pentium III motherboard and CPU. Yellow tag sale day ttl onlt $12.50. Now this unit is all cleaned up the dust bunnies are not fighting for space. I took apart the entire unit cleaned and...
October 17th 05 09:37 PM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Installing M/B and CPU by [email protected]
My new motherboard and processor just arrived and I was hoping to install these items myself. But I do fear the fact that I might screw something up having never attempted this task. I am not PC savey. I have reinstalled my hard drive that is pretty much straight forward (put in in the same way the...
February 27th 06 11:53 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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WINDOWS 98 'PATCH' KB891711 by margie
I am working on my neighbours computer which has windows 98. Because computer has minimum memory I have closed most of the start up items and only have his AVG anti virus and volume control in the startup menu. Should I also tick the above windows patch ????? or is it automatically...
May 2nd 06 12:53 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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1 Attachment(s) Win98SE CD from copy won't install on new used computer! by psongman
HI, I just got a newish used hard drive and searched all over the Net for how to freshly install my Windows 98SE and followed all the directions but it won't do the setup from the CD part. I downloaded the files from bootdisk.com ( excellent source by the way), and burned the files from my Windows,...
May 7th 06 09:17 PM
by psongman Go to last post
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Driver for eStar Portable Drive by Kunal
Does anyone know how or where to get a Win 98 USB driver for an eStar Portable Hard Drive (120 GB, USB 2.0)? I'm trying to use the drive on my Toshiba laptop with Win98.
August 20th 06 07:08 PM
by Ian Singer Go to last post
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Asus P4PE, XP, Win98se and S-ATA disk size by Lars-Erik Østerud
DaveW wrote: The native P4PE, which I use, will NOT recognize harddrives larger than 137 GB. You might try upgrading the BIOS to the latest version and see if that works. Win98se cannot recognize harddrives larger than 137 GB. Is that HDD total size over 137GB, or logical partitions...
September 13th 06 01:29 AM
by Dan Go to last post
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usb flash drive not being assigned a driver letter ??? by Niteowl
hi, Am trying to get a win98se machine to accept a USB Flash drive, different manufacturers, but same problem, will not show up... I get an exclamation mark in the device manager, but when I try to "update driver", it tells me I already have the best driver installed and it will keep that...
December 30th 06 09:41 AM
by Gary S. Terhune Go to last post
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Newsgroup Downloads by Candy
While I'm here, I have a question. Sorry if this isn't the right place. I am currently subscribed to two newsgroups, but I have only this one synchronized. How do I get only this one to download new messages. I thought I unsynchronized the other one, but I want to keep the messages pertaining...
September 19th 05 08:05 AM
by Candy Go to last post
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Is AUTOEXEC.BAT necessary? by Stephen Ford
Win98se My PC hails from the days of DOS6.22 - when Autoexec ruled - but I wonder how relevant it is to Win98se. What use to Win98se are - mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi) mode con codepage select=850
September 12th 05 11:10 AM
by Candy Go to last post
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Start up problem after hard drive install by Jeffrey Kershaw
I am running windows 98 and have installed a secondary drive for extra space.Following installation I reboot from startup disk but am stuck at command A:\ What do I put in here? I have installed this drive once and installation was straight forward and drive was working fine, but I 'restored...
September 15th 04 07:36 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Setup Win98 fron Startup Disk and CD? by plc
I have a PC that I need to setup Win98 from scratch. I have a older Win98 Startup floopy and Win98 CD. The PC boots to the "Disk I/O error, replace disk and hit any key", without startup floopy. When I insert startup floopy, everything goes fine to the A:\ prompt then I'm lost. What do I do...
November 22nd 04 08:42 PM
by plc Go to last post
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msi installer by Ted Moes
i cant install programs with the msi extension it just wants to open in wordpad
December 7th 04 08:31 PM
by Ted Moes Go to last post
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Reinstalling 98 Stumped??? by Mathers
I am reinstalling 98se on my aunts computer. She acquired it from a friend so I have formated the drive to start fresh. Here's the deal. From a startup disk, I ran FDISK and deleted all the old partitions. I created one new partition that is 8Mb in size. I restart. Format the new c:. restart from...
February 9th 05 07:13 AM
by Mathers Go to last post
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problems after re-install of W98SE by Phoebus
x-no-archive: yes Hi. Irrecoverable problems with trying to boot Win98SE (himem.sys is missing or corrupted, etc etc accompanied by immediate shutdowns - totally inexplicable) led me to reinstall Win98SE. Used emergency bootdisk made 2 yrs ago, installed Win98SE so it installed on top of...
March 17th 05 09:09 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
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USB KEY DRIVE by MR
Hi. I have Windows 98 on Emachines Cpu. My USB Key Drive doesn't work on it. It installs the hardware, but it asks for Drivers??????
September 6th 05 10:19 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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To reinstall win98 in multi OS system by WWChew
I have firstly installed win98 to c:, then installed winxp in another partition to d:. Now I want to reinstall my win98 but remain my winxp. Previously after I reinstalled my win98, the master boot record cannot detect the winxp anymore and i have to reinstall winxp again too. So my question is:...
June 27th 05 11:52 AM
by Lil' Dave Go to last post
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Setting up Windows98 by joshb
Hi guys, I'm currently working on a 133mhz computer which I'm trying to get up just so someone in the family can have something to listen to. Basically, here's my problem: I used the Win98 Boot Disk from www.bootdisk.com, used FDISK to delete the current active partition and then remade a new...
July 20th 05 02:59 AM
by Bill Watt Go to last post
9 1,365
Can't Uninstall TweakUI v1.33 - Add/Remove Programs Listing Gone by Cheryl
I've Googled this and am still searching... Fresh install of Win98SE on a Toshiba laptop (new in 2000). Downloaded and installed TweakUI v1.33 for Win98SE on a laptop. When immediately rebooting, a black screen appeared with 7-8 thin lines/dots at the most top-left corner of the screen. This...
January 10th 07 03:24 AM
by Cheryl Go to last post
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