Hi all, Does the standard W98SE OEM cd support SATA either using or installing on to it? thanks, charles.....

I am running windows 98SE with a desktop computer that only have 2 USB outlets in the front. I recently plugged in a USB 4 port hub. When I unplugged my web cam from the computer and plugged it in to the Hub it said on the screen that new hardware was found and wanted to reinstall drivers. So I...

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...

hi, I am helping a friend who just deleted a "bunch of stuff" before calling me for help.. the C: drive keeps filling up and he runs out of room, he had no idea what was doing it, but he started just deleting folders instead of removing programs via the Add/Remove function.. (sigh) at any...

I am trying to install Windows 98 SE to a newly formatted Seagate Cheetah 36MB SCSI drive. I used the AHA 2940 U host adapter's configuration menu to recognize the drive. I booted from a Windows 98 startup floppy and then used fdisk and format from the boot floppy to make one large active FAT32...

Hi, I am dealing with a three computer LAN, 2 - win98se, and 1 - XP Media. From one of the win98se machines, I can't get the network to see the other two computers on this LAN. I can get online using a shared DSL line via a router so I know the adapter is working, but I get an error when...

hi friends, i have a windows 98 o.s, and on my hard disk there are 2 partitions.. c:\ and d:\ , on the drive d:\ i hide some folders, but now i am not able to unhide these files... at the view menu , there is no folder option menu and so i am not able to unhide these files......

Hi, I have a digital camera (video/stills) which uses a Hitachi 4GB microdrive for the storage. I can transfer files from it via USB to my XP laptop, as the XP automatically recognises the camera and it comes up as a 'drive letter'. Can anyone tell me how I can do this using my win98 ...

I can't remember. Recently wiped HDD of laptop and reinstalled Win98SE to start fresh (giving laptop to my sister). WinXp Pro has a color pie chart. Silly, I know, but I want to be sure things are as they should be. Help please. :-) Cheryl

my computer crashed to a point to where I am asked for the serial number of the CD to reinstall Win98SE but that number and the Cd were lost. In order for me to even boot the computer I need the serial # asked for set-up. Does anybody have an old # used to install Win98se that was supplied with...

Hi all, I'm giving my old laptop to my disabled sister, who is on a fixed income. It's a Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS. It will be her first computer (she's 46 and very smart). She's most interested in being able to stay in touch via email and to explore the internet (dial-up connection - like...

Hi All, I am going to reinstall Wins 98se, and would like to know if i would have to reinstall other applications (eg. MS applications) afterthe OS is done? Is there any way to reinstall the OS and the rest remain unchanged? Please help. Thank you very much. Zoe

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...

Good Morning to All, This is a long one, but I hope you can help with some questions I have. (I've also posted this at japan.comp.toshiba) (laptop specs at the bottom) I'm giving my disabled sister (who is 46 and very smart) a laptop (new in 2000) to use as a desktop (always connected to...

I am running windows 98SE and trying to use PC to PC calling in Yahoo messenger 8. As soon as I try to accept a call from someone running XP with a firewall Yahoo messenger crashes. I crash but not the other person. I went to yahoo messenger help and I quotethem: What ports are used by Yahoo! Voice...

Hi, I Googled this and didn't find much. New install of OEM Win98SE on a Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS laptop. I read where someone was told to look for updated drivers for their video card to solve the mouse-sticking issue. The laptop has a ATI Rage LT Pro graphics controller (not really a card?)...

I am trying to help my neighbour. His installation of W98SE has "broken". When booting from the hard drive, it says several files including explorer.exe are missing and that windows should be re-installed. So how to do it? We can't get the hard disk boot to go far enough in either normal or...

Hi, I have a couple of software programs that were once installed on my Win95 desktop that I can give to my sister if they'll run okay on a Win98SE laptop (new in 2000). The laptop *appears* to meet the system requirements of the software. See laptop specs and software system requirements...

Hi, I've been posting my laptop questions at japan.comp.toshiba and not receiving any replies, so thought I'd try here if I may? Maybe there's a laptop computer hardware newsgroup you could point me to? Have a laptop. Installed a SMC PC Card (LAN) to connect to a router which connects to a...

What will happend to a 250GB disk with 4 x 60GB partitions under Win98se? As long as the disk is connected though USB from an external USB cabinet Win98se sees all 4 partitions and can read/write as normal But will this work diffrently when I hook up the disk to the internal S-ATA controller and...