I am switching machines is there a way to use my OEM disk and "force" an install on a differnt brand of computer? (When i use the cd i get a message telling me it is only for compaq)

I have a Win 98 boot disk with wipe on it. I wiped the drive clean. I try to fdisk and it asks me if I want to us a large format drive. I press ENTER because the "Y" is already present and it returns to the A:\ prompt. Tried this with 2 boot disk, same results. Using a PowerSpec PC with 766 MHz...

I formatted one HDD with FAT32 by win2000 PC. Then I tried to install win98se to this HDD. But I can not do it with error message as: "NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart." Then I press key, and message is: "Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter"

I was in the process of upgrading my Windows 98 to Windows XP. My son had so many games loaded on the computer, I just did a total restore. When the system re-booted, the system prompted me for the Windows 98 Product Key Id, but I haven't been able to locate the book that has the Product Key Code....

went to restore my dads windows 98 and its asking for a product key . is there a master key i can use

I can burn bootable CD's using Nero and the Win98 startup floppy. Can you burn a bootable CD taking the contents of the Back Up files Win98 allows you to store? So in the event serious data loss you can boot up with that CD and restore the OS and files/settings/drivers from the 700MB disk. What...

Win98se can boot into DOS but not GUI, on either of these 2 mboards. www.jetway.com.tw/jetway/system/productshow2.asp?id=238&proname=M2GT6%2DPTD www.jetway.com.tw/jetway/system/productshow2.asp?id=247&proname=M2GT4%2DSOG which use GeForce 6100 & nForce 4 SLI chipsets ( both with PCIe slots ). WinME...

Somehow I have lost the Quick Launch toolbar. When I try to check it in the Toolbar pulldown, it says "Cannot create Toolbar". The Quick Launch folder is still there under C:\\windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. How can I get it back as a toolbar?

Can't connect to my mail server after a clean install of Win98se. I saved the old mail profile files, etc but now can't access the mail server. Browser connects fine. I can Ping the ISP by URL but not by Name. This almost identical machine connects to both Mail, News and HTTP.with the same...

I Can't download attachments after installing new motherboard. Help!

Can anyone offer a solution as to why I cannot enter my user names or password on any website. When I go to any website and I am directed to the portion of the site where you would enter such information, the entry fields remain blank, and the curser disappears not allowing me to enter anything....

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did the upgrade from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd & msn32.dll. So...

I can't seem to format the hard drive. Everything seem to be stuck in the Window... I didn't mean to delete the oleaut32.dll. What do I need to do? -- Lauria

I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop running Windows 98 SE. Recently I got a Internet Explorer bug that corrupted my registry such that I decided to completely reload the software on the laptop. I have everything working but the video display. I have purchased the correct driver CDs from Dell and...

My friend had Win98 SE. He had a problem and so formatted the PC. Now whenever he tries to Install, the PC hangs up somewhere after or before the scandisk that 98 setup performs before installation. Even if he is able to reach the SETUP wizard, the system locks up unexpectedly or sives an error...

Whenver I try to install windows I get getting the message that setup cannot continue because my computer has less than the required extended memory. I have 728RAM of memory. It's a new hard drive with nothing on it. HELP!!!!!

I still can't install an os. I still get the message that this computer doesn't have enough extended memory. I have tried the suggestion that Bill gave but it didn't work. I would really appreciate some help on this matter.

I am getting this message when trying to install an ie6 critical update even after a full reboot. I assume there is an entry in the registry telling windows to complete a previous install (unknown). Does anyone know where to find it, or how to cure this problem?

I reformatted the hard drive on my old pc and then tried to reinstall Win98. It turns out it's an Upgrade CD, which I used eons ago to upgrade from Win95. The installation routine won't allow me to get past the part where it checks for a previous version of Windows and I have long since lost my...

I just replaced a crashed hard drive in a circa 2000 Compaq Presario desktop. Now I can't get Windows 98 to install. I would upgrade to either Win2000 or XP, but Compaq offers no video drivers for anything but Win98. The problem is that I can't get the CD-ROM drive to boot the Win 98 CD. It will...