Hi All, I have an alternative PCI IDE controller (promise u100) which I cannot start win98 from: The drive is identified correctly by the controller and autoexec and config.sys are processed correctly. It hangs however when it starts the win98 (win.com) portion. the drivers for the card were loaded...

I have the windows 98se edition and it is missing a damn msdos.sys file my computer is in safe mode because of this and have not been able to find on the net anywhere to download this file, a friend even sent me this file and I cant open it, Can someone please help me get this file and be able to...

Hi, I have recently been gifted a Compaq M300. It's super thin and light but only a PIII 600MHz machine, I plan to put the max memory in it (I think 128+256MB) to improve things as much as possible. Also plan to increase HDD to about 30GB (any problems with doing this/ will partioning make...

Help! I have two computers. One is a Compaq Deskpro EN which had Windows 2000 professional on it. I bought the computer second hand but was given no boot disk or otherwise. I don't have a product key for OS. The problem is that I was having severe problems with the computer to where I had to format...

I sincerely appreciate the help I've received regarding how to remove malware, but at this point it would be easier to simply uninstall IE6 and reinstall it. Is there anybody out there who knows how to do this? The only options offered under add/remove programs for IE6 are to either repair the...

I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. I get the error message"Invalid VxD dynamic link call to device 3, service B" whenever I try to open Windows in normal mode. I can successfully open in safe mode, just like the article #306482 in the Microsoft knowledge base. I tried all of the...

I have misplaced my win 98 CD but still have the original packaging with code numbers. Any way to obtain a replacement other than an outright full-price purchase???

a 4 gig harddrive appears to have duplicated itself. phantom shows in windows, some dos; but not in fdisk. norton utilities freeze at attempts to correct.

I started getting the hard disk full warning when my 2.2gig C:\ was about half full. Without adding any further software to the disk it now shows the disk as almost totally full. Waht could be filling my hard drive? I have ran disk cleanup and found nothing that seems to be hogging the drive.

My daughter has my older computer with Windows 98 (upgraded from a 95) and she removed Norton Antivirus program to install another brand of antivirus. After doing this the two disc drives e and f were wiped out completely. It only boots in Safe Mode and since the disc drives are gone it is hard...

I bought a used laptop with Windows 98 installed and am having problems. The hard drive shows up as an icon, but looks to be covered in snow? I'm assuming this means there is a problem. I save things to the hard drive and they are there, but when I turn the computer off, the files are gone when...

This is an addendum to my previous message. Regarding my search of the Registry to find the entries that this mal- ware program has loaded, when I go into HKEY_CURRENT_USER under Software, I find a suspicious entry: aaa_soft with several sub-folders. It turns out they contain various information...

Somehow my PC is asking for USBHUB.SYS. It asks for the Windows 98 Cd-Rom but it still can't find it. Does anyone know where to find a copy of this for Windows 98 thank you

There is no optiont to remove IE6 from the add/remove menu. The only option you get when you click on IE6 in the displayed list of programs is to 'add a component' or 'repair' IE6. Why? I can't seem to find the file(s) that are repeatedly loading mal-ware into memory while I am on-line. ...

My hard drive on my laptop is no good. I can't get to the drive. I bought a new drive but don't know what to do from here. I was using Win98 SE but would like to install Win 2000. Can anyone help me?

my clean disk won't finish when i run it.

I have the same problem but I need to download it to disks to install on my other computer. I have my ser. # but can't find a download.

I was trying to use the CD on a IBM 300PL with 128 MB Ram, a 663 Mhz processor, and 10Gig Hard drive. It has windows 98, and I can not find the CD ROM, the BIOS looks OK but when I go to Device manager I receive an error when I check the status of both the Primary and secondary IDE Controllers. A...

How would I obtain Windows 98 service packs on cd? Is it possible?

My husband was transferring large files from his laptop to his PC which has an 80 gig hard drive. When the copy was complete, Explorer crashed and he froze. When he rebooted the PC, it came up to a black screen with a blinking cursor. We booted from a boot disk and tried to do a SYS C:, but...