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March 14th 05 12:18 PM
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keep losing 3rd partition data by JohnB
A friend has a PII400 system, with Win98 SE, which was upgraded a long time ago over the first addition. He partitions a 60GB drive into 3 partitions. The 3rd partition loses its data. He just wiped this drive clean, re-partitioned, copied all old files to c:, d:, e:. The next day there was...
March 13th 05 02:45 PM
by JohnB Go to last post
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Win 98 Second Edition by Wayne
I have this old computer to which I just restored Windows 98 from the HP restore disks. I think it is NOT Second Edition, since it says Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998. I need Win 98 Second Edition so my Netgear MA111 wireless adapter will work. How can I download Second Edition on my XP machine...
March 12th 05 01:38 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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DMA won't stay checked by Jay
Hi, I put a new 80GB WD UDMA-5 hard drive into my old Intel 430TX UDMA-2 chipset board and am running Windows 98SE. The DMA checkbox (in Device Manager) in 98SE won't stay checked on this new drive. The DMA checkbox does remain checked on my CD-RW, and the other old 3GB drive. I can't find a...
March 10th 05 10:31 AM
by roman modic Go to last post
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Get Win 98SE to show 2nd Hard Drive (D:\) after installing new C:? by minniethemoocher
How do I get Windows 98 SE to recognize the current 2nd hard drive (D:) after installing a new C:\ drive? I exchanged a 5GB C:\ drive for a 120 GB C:\drive. The new drive is formatted, Win 98SE is loaded; it appears to be working OK. It has FAT32. BIOS AO3 recognizes the 2nd hard drive, but...
March 9th 05 03:35 AM
by minniethemoocher Go to last post
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2nd Hard Drive Problem by Jeff S
Hi all, I have a machine with Win XP and a 60 gb hard drive, I used Partition Magic and installed Win 98se on a different partition and everything went great, both o/s work fine. I had a second 60 gb hard drive that I unplugged before creating the partition, I shut down computer, plugged 2nd drive...
March 8th 05 06:45 AM
by Jeff S Go to last post
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Missing .DLL File by K-Bob
After downloading and installing an update to a firewall and anti-virus program called eTrust EZ Armor, I now receive the following message when rebooting the computer with Windows 98: "A required .DLL file, DRIVERIF.DLL, was not found." How do I correct this?
March 7th 05 11:35 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Access 2nd Partition by Brad
Hi, One of my computers is a portable Compaq 386 (sold for $5,700 around 1988). It has 2 meg of ram and Dos 6.22. I replaced the 40 meg hdd with a Quantum "Lightning" 750 meg, that was partitioned (on a newer computer) into two logical drives (520 meg and 230 meg). The 386 BIOS doesn't...
March 4th 05 01:26 AM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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Problems upgrading to Windows 2000 from '98 by pbyoukil
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...
March 2nd 05 11:13 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Installing Partitions by Steve Shepherd
I bought a second hand Hard Drive that was supossed to have 3 partitions but when I got it home it had only 2. It wont recognize the cd rom. How do I get the hard drive to the piont where I can put Win 98 se in the cd tray and run it. I'm not computer illiterate, please help. Thanx Steve
March 2nd 05 11:12 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Restoring Windows 98 by Wayne
I have this old HP Pavilion 6470z. I put Red Hat on it, and now I want to use the HP restore disks to put Windows 98 back on it. I tried to run the restore disks. The first one seemed to run OK, copying a lot of files. Then the PC rebooted, and it booted to the Red Hat. (It is of course a...
March 2nd 05 10:32 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Drive D: skipped, other letter used in stead. by RobH
I got a curious problem that puzzles me. I have a PI 200MHz system with the following drive setup (2 drives and DVD's with the standard IDE controller, 4 drives via a Promise ata100 TX2): - c: 2.5 GB standard IDE primary master - d: 1.5 GB standard IDE primary slave - e: 7 GB Promise IDE primary...
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February 28th 05 10:27 AM
by RobH Go to last post
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Combine Favorites? by sunslight
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...
February 27th 05 10:49 AM
by Mikhail Zhilin Go to last post
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Phantom D: drive by Dave
I have a phantom D: drive on my machine of zero size, the remainder of the drives being moved up a letter. My Computer - Properties - Perfomance shows "Drive D is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system". I did not do this. Discwizard shows only the real partitions on the drives. From...
February 27th 05 01:07 AM
by Steven Go to last post
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USB drive not visible in My Computer by Bill Brehm
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...
February 25th 05 10:01 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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two hdd set up by stacey
O k guys I have the two hard drives in with the 8 gb set to slave and the 2 gb set as master. The w98 boots up but I dont believe it regonizes the slave how do you set it to read it? both have w98 on it already, what I would like to do is format both and install it on the master and then use the...
February 24th 05 10:53 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Win 98 SE system files have disappeared several times by JasonScott
Hello all, I have a system with one hard drive divided into two partitions, I have win98se on the primary partition and win xp pro on the secondary. I've been running this config for about two years with no major problems except that several times now, the most recent being yesterday, most of my...
February 24th 05 10:51 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Windows 98 has not assigned drive letters to drive by John Isenberg
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...
February 24th 05 10:49 AM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
1 1,552
Apparent Win98SE IO.SYS bug by Steven
Hi, I have had trouble with W98SE and LBA partitions. I was getting phantom drives on some PC's. It turns out to be a bug in IO.SYS that occurs when an LBA partition exists in or follows a 0x05 extended partition. The problem is that when IO.SYS is calculating the absolute key to access a...
February 24th 05 06:18 AM
by Steven Go to last post
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USB Devices not appearing as drives by roba_uk
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...
February 24th 05 04:12 AM
by Bill Brehm Go to last post
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