i want to defrag my hard disk. when i run defrag it says errors are on disk so run scandisk. when i try to run scandisk it fails. Errors and then the machine locks up. I guess I need another copy of scandisk. Tried to go via MS website - nothing, tried help line, nothing. I have my Win98 disk I...

Hallo, google says: Max. IDE-Harddisk is 137 GB is there someone, who knows how big an SCSI Disk under Win98 could be? sorry, but my english is not perfect. Werner

Windows 98SE. Have a 40gb hard drive with 2 partitions each of 20 gb. Formatted C: for a new installation and then deleted the D: partition assuming they would then merge back to one again. Having formatted C: and reinstalled windows, there is only one 20gb drive. Where has the rest of it gone and...

When Defragmenting my hard drive it never goes past 2%. After reaching 2%, it loops back to 0. Disk Scan also fails. Disk Scan says that it has been interrupted ten times by a progarm writing to the disk. I don't think I have anything running since I closed all the start up progarms shown on the...

I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of...

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...

I had been experimenting in a frenzy of copying, changing, and activating alternate partitions; and defragging and rebooting. Once or twice W98 OS got hung: I had to power off which caused scandisk to run on bootup. Somewhere along the way System Time got hosed, probably by a...

I'm trying to load my Broadband and have been asked to run the Windows 98 Second Edition Disk, which I have done, and it says the file ATTMUI.DLL is missing. BT (the broadband supplier) have advised me to manually extract file from disk but I don't have a clue how to do this. Can anyone help please?

Are you having trouble starting Windows, or are you having trouble mounting the compressed drive? If it's the compressed drive, what is the command you are using to mount it, and what is the error message that is being generated? If you are having problem starting Windows, exactly how far through...

I have pentium III 733 Mhz, 128 MB SDRAM, 40 GB harddisk cpu. My hardisk have bed sector and i have to replace it with the new one. I want to copy all data of old harddisk (C: drive and D: drive) in to new hard disk. How can i do that.

Hi. I'm considering a new larger HD, and I understand Win98 has issues with HD's as large as what I need. I'm hoping to buy a 160 GB drive. Some of what I've read says I'll only be able to use 137 GB of it, right? So is that a limit for the drive, or can I get around it by partitioning the...

I have recently (within the last month) sent some files to the recycle bin and have since emptied it. There were files in there that I now wish I had not deleted. Is there any way to retrieve these files using Windows 98? I also have a free data recovery program, but it requires that I select...

Is there a way to Defrag from the C prompt on Win 98? My brother is having a problem with his puter. He cannot get it to even operate in Safe Mode. It will only go into DOS when you say "operate in Safe Mode" I'm in the East, he's in the West. Just had him skndsk in DOS, but now I want to defrag....

I read a few posts from people whose Windows original CDROM had become unreadable. One easy way to avoid this if you're adding/repairing bits a lot is to backup the entire CDROM contents to hard disk (e.g. to a folder called C:\Copies\Windows98SE\). I do that with most of my software CDROMs, and...

When turning on computer it asks for boot disk, when i try an install without formatting i get disk errors. and at the dos prompt i can only read my A: drive. trying to read or format my C: gives a bad command. is there any help out there. Thanks

I'm looking to purchase Windows 98SE on a market like ebay or from another source. What is the difference between a full load version and a full OEM version? Also, once I find an original full version to buy, how I can determine whether it's the latest produced? In otherwords, I want to shop for...

I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk. Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing partition,pressed y, 4512M) asked the ? do you want to boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to Format C: /s. Windows started to Format(at this pt I have a black screen...

I somehow got a glitch in my computer. Anyone need a challenge ? :) Because I have a folder named C:\windows\temp\_ISTMP45.DIR I can't do any updates for maintenance. I can't check for errors on the HD

I bought a used Toshiba notebook that had Win98 on it and it worked fine for several weeks. Recently I started having problems during boot-up that kept getting progressively worse. It finally got to the point of not loading 98 at all, with error messages stating various files were missing...

why my computer can't do copying on certain cd to my hardisk. it will show "error while reading.possibility of corrupt disc" ? please help. thanks.