I am trying to reinstall Windows 98 on my computer. It shipped with a 8GB hard drive. When I Format the drive, it only shows that 2GB of the drive is available for use. I want to get rid of an Extended DOS partition occupying the other 6GB of space. However, when attempting to delete this with...

Scandisk tells me I don't have enough memory to run when I try to check a USB drive. It works OK when I check the internal drives. Rebooting and running Scandisk first does not help. The USB drive has 105GB used and 80GB free. Windows crashed while it was writing to the drive and now I get an...

I installed a formatted Hard Drive in my computer and attempted to boot up with a floppy. In fact, I attempted to boot up with 3 different floppies which I had downloaded from the internet. In each case I received the error message, "Invalid System Disk. " I tried changing the order of boot up...

I have installed a new 80GB HDD (recognized as Drive G:) onto which I have cloned the OS from Drive C:. However when restarting the PC, the machine will only boot if I leave the original C: in the system. The new disk still has the drive letter G: assigned to it. I have used both PowerQuest...

I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...

Hello, The directory tree in Windows Explorer has been renamed for some reason. I think a scandisk operation caused it. I have replaced C:\My Documents by creating a new folder and downloading my files from the server.....creating a new directory tree for my documents. I want to rename the ERROR:...

i just installed windows 98 se and it gets to the splash screen and just stays forever---I need help troubleshooting this please -- Thank you!

ok my older computer is windows 98 and it is messed up is there a place where i can go and try to get something to fix it. my mouse won't work when it loads up. it will work in safe mode.

I have an S-1675CDS laptop that's fairly old. I can read any cd that is created by a professional company but cannot read a cd that is created by me or anyone that sends a cd to me. I get the error: "D: is not accessable. The device is not ready" what is happening? Any help is appreciated.

I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives – 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can...

Does anyone here have the following two pieces of information that I am looking for? The first piece is dealing with the more indepth shutdown process and exactly when does the regeistry get closed during that process and the second peice is dealing with information in depth about the sectors and...

Setup is as follows: Thinkpad 600e, std internal hdd (C-drive), external hdd via USB caddy (D-drive). Win98SE Prob1. Scan of C-drive hangs after finding lost strings(?) will not autofix of allow manual fix. tried running it in safemode, still hangs. Scan of D-drive works fine. Prob 2.

im a dj an im trying to put an 80 gig hard drive into my wins98 that already has 2x20 gig hdd,the drive 80 gig has music file already on it but the drive cames from my other computer that has xp an its in the computer now but doesn't see the drive please help me

HI I need to defragmen my OLD computer. It's at my moms house. I tried going through the defragmentation within window BUT it ran forever BUT nothing happened. I think the defragmentation program is not on the system. IF I put the startup disk into the computer will I be able to load the defrag....

Hi, does anyone know why rawritent.exe http://search.mirrorservice.org/search/?q=rawrite will only accept removable media ? Is there anything that would break this algorithm for fixed disks?

If windows is open, the partition it resides in has open system files sourced from the hard drive at boot time. Generally speaking, these reside in memory until windows finishes shutdown. wrote in message ... ...

Hi I've just bought a Freecom Classic 160Gb USB hard drive for my Win98SE system, and I can't get it to install. When I plug in the USB cable, the system recognises new hardware and asks for drivers. This is expected behaviour according to the manual. When I install the drivers from the supplied...

Hello, Can someone please help.... Slightly mad question he Is there a way of getting drive image to *not* compress a file of a given name so that this file can be zeroed and the deleted prior to imaging the drive? Background:-

I keep getting error messages that my hard drive is full, but when I go to My Computer in WIN98SE and click on C drive properties it tells me I have 3.6 GB free. Any Ideas on fixing this. It has done this several different times. I have deleted files several times and after I do this it will...

My hard drive & partitions all read as MSDOS compatibility mode, and the CDRW/DVD drive is not shown in Windows 98SE, so I cannot access it. (It was the H: drive). This happened after trying to install a USB mobile disk driver. I have uninstalled the driver to see if that would resolve the...