Hi folks, have managed to mess up my machine......the current symptom that has me stymied is that when booting it partially closes down with an error message leaving me with the windows background image but no desktop icons and no tool bar.....so I can't do anything further....can't get to Start...

when i try to transfer files into my removable disk which is my mp3 player a message comes up saying this disk is write protected, remove the write protection or use another disk. How do i remove the write protection? -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com

I have only one floppy drive in reality. It was faulty so I installed a new one yesterday. Since then, Windows recognises the new drive but as drive B and insists that the old drive is still there as drive A. This isn't just a minor point as certain functions (such as creating a startup disc)...

Hi Just installed Win98se on a friends machine, I've been using the CD ROM drive to install drivers etc, but all of a sudden the drive gives a message: "D:\ is not accessable. The device is not ready" So I can't carry on with the upgrade. I get no probs in device manager, plus the only info on...

For the problem with compatibility mode, see he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=130179 Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks For the problem with the CD drive, you will need to provide much more detail, including what you've tried so far, when did it last work,...

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Hi, I have a Quantum "Fireball" 1.2GB HDD that went bad. I got a message regarding a problem with the "controller". I swapped the controller (same controller) from a similar HDD and I still get the same message. I am trying to recover some files on the HDD. Could a hardware fault cause a...

Hi, a question about drive letters: Is there a way of changing drive letters in W98SE? I have a computer with two HD (and two CD). I have maid partitions on HD1, 1 for the system and 1 for data. Then I wan't to have HD2 as a backup drive with one partition. What's annoying me is that the system...

I can't run Scan Disk to completion or load Symantec's GoBack on my Compaq Desktop because something is writing to my hard disk causing restarts. I shut down running programs, but this didn't eliminate the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. John Williams

every time I logon recive this msg. at the EVENT VIEWER The computer IVANVALLES tried to connect to the server \\SERVER using the trust relationship established by the TALLERBORINQUEN domain. However, the computer lost the correct security identifier (SID) when the domain was reconfigured....

I'm a software developer working to create a driver stack for a USB/SATA interface based on the UMSS sample. I have a problem on some systems where, after a Device Manager refresh, a physical drive is shown with two drive letters in Explorer. Files created on one of the drive letters are also...

Hi, as I am sure you guys know, W98 has problems with file sizes over 2GB. Has there ever been a workaround or other fix?

On one of my computers with Win 98, there are 3 hard drives and 1 CD-RW installed. The system BIOS detects all 4 of these drives with no problems. However, when in My Computer only 2 hard drives and the CD-RW are displayed and the second drive doesn't work, coming up with the error messge "D:\...

I have a homemade pc that I bought recently and just recently when i try to boot it will start opening windows and then immediatly windows will shut down from the startup screen (IT NEVER OPENS) the system has an intel mb and hardware but I know that it is not a hardware problem because when I put...

I recently need to restall my computer using recovery disc which has Win98 After recovery, there is messages about System.ini cannot find the following files for a certain device. These files are vredir.vxd & dfs.vxd. Then after I press any key to continue, there is a message that the msnp32.dll...

I am trying to install a new replacement HDD in my boy's PC (PIII 333MHz, Win98--yeah, it's old). I have a Seagate 80GB replacement HDD. After a couple of tries and some cable swaps, I got the machine to boot back up from the motherboard, but it will not detect the new HDD. It won't even boot from...

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...

Hi, I have been told that a data cd (also audio cd) is first "read" from the middle track. Another person told me that it is first "read" from the inside track. I always thought it was first read from the outside (near the edge) track. Can someone, who really knows, tell me where the first...

Hi, Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction with regards to the "initial" track position (inside) when you first insert a data CD. Another very important question: Is there a physical "stop" that stops the head (the head moves toward the center of the CD and "hits" a physical...

Hi, See my original post below. The only problem (major problem) with the CD Rom drive is the initial access when I first insert a data CD rom (or audio CD), even when laptop is on for awhile and warmed up. I have to insert it many times before I finally have access (if I am lucky). Note: Each...