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Damaged Win 98 Operating System Disk by Ed Palmer
I have a windows 98 operating systen disk that is cracked and will no longer work. Can i get a replacement?
July 13th 04 10:19 PM
by Jon_Hildrum Go to last post
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having trouble with A drive by Vicky
Hello, can anyone help me? Here is the message I am getting when I try to use the A drive: you do not have access to the folder 'A:\. See your administrator for access to this folder Help!
September 8th 04 09:10 PM
by Bert Kinney Go to last post
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fdisk by nick
how to make fdisk see the entire drive
September 1st 04 04:34 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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is my Hard Disk damaged?! by D.
" and the harddrive diagnostic can probably be downloaded from the website of the hd's mfg I am doing that. It is working. Erasing and fixing problems. Great advice from Ron. 1. I found that my drive is an IBM DCXA 21000 and than I`ve found diagnostic tools ("DFT")and "made" 1 boot...
September 2nd 04 07:37 PM
by philo Go to last post
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Tape Drive error by DRIFT-O-MATIC
I finally got win98 installed on my puter. I was given this old HP Colorado T3000 tape drive, so I decided to install it in the machine, since there was an open bay for it. I don't have the software or drivers for it, so I went to HP website and downloaded it...or I think that's what it was. The...
September 5th 04 05:13 AM
by DRIFT-O-MATIC Go to last post
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"Windows is shutting down", but doesn't by DRIFT-O-MATIC
After installing WIN98 on this really slow Pentium (r) computer, I notice it doesn't automatically shut down when selected to do so. The screen just shows the Microsoft Windows98 logo, and at the botom, it reads: "Windows is shutting down." But it never does. I have to push the power button to...
September 8th 04 04:30 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Restore files by nordia
I backed up my accounting files and other files to a 3.5" diskette to reformat my hard drive. Now I can't restore these files I keep getting an illegal operation message and the restore program closes. All other disk that were used to backup files work ok. I tried running scandisk to it but error...
September 16th 04 02:02 AM
by Nordia Go to last post
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security by Michael
I have windows 98se on my desktop and xp on my laptop. On the laptop I have to put in a password after bootup to proceed on to windows. I think it is called a harddrive lockout password. Is there anyway I can configure my 98se so that I can control access. I know that when the log on screen...
September 14th 04 04:00 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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No Win 98 because explorer.exe illegal operation by bob y
I deleted a game and associated unrecognized programs off my computer thru the add remove folder and when I tried to restart I get the message"Explorer has performed illegal operation", the details "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0197:00401f31". Plus I can only...
September 19th 04 12:11 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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scandisk & disk defrag by Barry Sachs
I recently decided to upgrade from win98se to xp pro. Some of the software was incompatible with xp so I decided not to upgrade. Now I can't run Scandisk or Disk Defragmenter at all. I've tried everything I can think of (including disabling Norton Antivirus and Firewall), but scandisk runs 10 times...
August 25th 04 03:31 AM
by CJT Go to last post
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New Life for old machine by Keith
Anyone know of a good "how to" manual for restoring an old Windows 98 machine? I inherited a '98 and would like to learn something and get this thing humming again. Right now it doesn't load up consistently. Sort of starting from scratch. Thanks
August 27th 04 06:05 PM
by roy Go to last post
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Cracked OEM disk by Don Stallard
My OEM disk is cracked, any suggestions???
September 1st 04 04:14 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Bare HD by me
I have a bare deskstar 80gb. what is the best way to get my bios to see it so i can then format etc. my os is wind98. currently when i have it plugged up during startup, my pc freezes when detecting what is in that slot (secondary master).
July 14th 04 11:34 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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Disk Defragmentation by Arkansas Hot Rod
Shows in box that defragmenting process is running, however, the percentage seldom changes-sometimes it will go up to 2%-but never further. Generally it remains on 0%. Please, will somebody help me??
July 24th 04 12:03 PM
by Gerry Cornell Go to last post
4 1,224
window CD by
My Cd Has a very bad scratch on it. Is there any way to get another? (It provents me from installing.)
August 7th 04 07:59 PM
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'disk full' error when disk isn't full by Chris Nellist
Windows 98 is giving me disk full errors when the hard disk shouldn't be full. There should be 2.5GB of space. There was, until recently. The contents of the directories add up to 6.8GB and the disc's capacity is 9.3GB (in one big partition). It is also displaying the file sizes of some large...
August 26th 04 12:11 AM
by Arthur Go to last post
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Windows 98 SE recovery by des
I have a Dell Dimension 4100 PC with windows 98se operating system. I have had the PC for just over three years. I have just had to reformat my hard drive, and on trying to reinstall windows 98se from the supplied recovery disc, I find I cannot as some files are missing from the disc. I have...
August 12th 04 10:57 PM
by Paul Go to last post
4 2,186
disk error by Ashlea
I am getting a "non-system disk or disk error - replace and strike any key when ready" at start-up when there is no disk in the floppy or disk drives. What else would cause this?
August 14th 04 09:02 PM
by CJT Go to last post
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Product Key Lost by jms26
Dear Sirs, I am replacing a hard drive. I have the windows 98SE CD. I however, lost my product key. My old HD still runs. Is there a way to find my product key on the old HD? Thanks, Jason __________________________________________________________________ Schröder ICQ#: 136091342 Current ICQ...
August 26th 04 01:40 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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File not found by bob y
I can't get win98 to start even in safe mode because it says "Invalid page fault at explorer.exe ..." At the C:\windows directory I see an explorer.exe file with 180,224 bytes. When I try to edit the file or rename it the computer says "File not found". I can find every other file that I see in...
September 17th 04 05:42 PM
by Don Phillipson Go to last post
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