The part about hydrogen gas is really wild ! "Greg" wrote in message ... For those that might be wondering... it was blown capacitors. More info can be found here... ...

I want re-format my existing computer (Win98se OS) by loading Win98 to a clean drive. Do I need to use the "fdisk" tool to repartition the drive, or can I just begin with the "format" tool? Is there an advantage to recreating a primary partition or is OK to use the existing one?

My computer doesn't reconize cd rom present, this was sudden and they have been working. Can't find icons they are missing. nothing in explorer to indicate cd roms present. Does not show drives. Please help dont know what happened. Curently running os 98. previously happened while running windows...

I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any help.

This morning, I was cleaning out a few of the unused files in my computer and I fear that I may have corrupted one of the necessary files to properly run my computer. When I restarted it, I received a message reading: Searching for Boot Record from Floppy..Not Found Searching for Boot Record from...

Hi. In my directory, there is c:windows/temp folder. It contains many, many subfolders. Can these be safely deleted? My disc clean up does not remove them so I am concerned I will mess up my computer if I delete them. Thank you for your assistance.

I have my Win98SE original disk, but have lost the book with the key. I need to format my HD, but cannot re- install without the key. Does anyone know how to obtain the key. Thanks

The dma check box was checked for the hard drive in device manager, now it will only boot in safe mode, and to uncheck it is not an option. Any way to uncheck it?

I have a 20GB disk (28,615.8MB) in NTFS format on a Win 98 system, BUT windows will not assign it a drive letter. PartitionMagic 8 shows the drive with the correct size, used, and unused "active" "primary" but no drive letter. Is there a way to get Win 98 to 'see ' the drive? (my objective is to...

I have an older IBM computer with Windows 98SE. I will be replacing it soon with new computer/XP but need to reformat and reload Windows 98 before passing it on to an aged relative with minimal requirements. I have many self- created errors that can only be corrected with re-format and reinstall. I...

My son's PC's Hard Drive failed thursday night. He got it to work yesterday but it failed this morning and continues to fail with message "no operation system found". Is there a way we can get access to the disk and copy important data files. Its a HP pavillion, about 5 yrs old. HELP!!!!

I have a valid copy of Win 98 second ed disk and it is cracked and no longer usable for updating drives etc. Is therea source for replacement disks? Thanks, Dave

I keep getting a windows doesn't have enough memory error when I try to defrag or run scandisk for my D drive. It will scan my drive, C and E but not D. Not even in DOS, I typed A:\scandisk D: and it says it's the wrong command. I need to defrag and run scandisk on that drive soon and I don't...

Hi there, I've had to reinstall Win98 a couple of times over the years and it's a real pain ... mainly because of my bad memory. Question ! I have Win98SE Upgrade ( plus all the original stuff before that ) and was wondering if it would be possible to make a new CD Rom with Win98 on it, together...

An interesting puzzle....When i insert Audio CDs into the CD-ROM or CD-RW (have 2 CD drives)it plays automatically. However, if I inset a program CD (eg. game CD) it does not auto play - even though these particular CDs used to do this until very recently. Both CD drives have 'auto...

i hope someone will be able to help me, when i turn on my computer the following message appears: "Incorrect System Disc please insert correct disc and press any key to continue" i can do nothing, then. i don't have a system disc, it won't load up windows. Please help Tim

I have a libretto 50ct, with a removable pcmcia floppy drive. I can use boot disks on a:\ in dos mode, but I receive the "A drive not accessible" in windows. I can find the floppy drive controller when in safe mode only, and have not been able to fix the problem using toshiba's floppy drivers....

It's been a long time since i've done it in Windows 98 and can't remember where to get started. Can you help? I think this is the only thing that will fix my problem. Thanks

Every time I try to defrag drive C it starts over after it reaches 3% during the "checking drive for errors" portion. This drive has not been defragged in 500 days, has over 200,000 files is 37.2 GB with 12.9 used. I had to run scandisk from DOS because it kept restarting even after following the...

Any way a SATA disk can be connected to an IDE header please?