my system kept freezing when doing scandisk, so run scandisk via dos and now pc won't boot. I can start via safe mode but can't find cd player to reload windows..any help would be appreciated as it's been a very long day

How do I make a start-up diskette for drive A. Thank You

When I go to "My Computer" using the icon on the desktop or windows explorer, the drives are not there. however, when i try to find the drives using the command path, they are fine.

I have an IBM laptop that I bought used, the hard drive has 2 designated drives c & d, I guess the hard drive is partitioned?. I would like to reformat it so that the whole drive is c. I can't install any software to the d part of the drive so in essence I only have half the drive space usable. I...

I do not have my original Certificate of Authenticity and cannot "re-load" Microsoft Works Suite99 because of this. Where can I get information regarding the Product ID# so I can install again? Thank you for ANY support! Julie

Is there a way to Defrag from the C prompt on Win 98? My brother is having a problem with his puter. He cannot get it to even operate in Safe Mode. It will only go into DOS when you say "operate in Safe Mode" I'm in the East, he's in the West. Just had him skndsk in DOS, but now I want to defrag....

where can i buy this cd ???? I can not find the site at microsoft!!! Only this!!!Current users of the Windows 98 operating system can receive the updated functionality by ordering a CD-ROM called Windows 98 Second Edition Updates, scheduled to be available from the Microsoft Web site in early...

My computer has been running slow and I have been trying to perform a defrag to speed up the most used applications. When it get to about 12% in scanning, I get a message 'detecting a change in the drive, restarting'. This goes on forever. I have performed a virus scan with the most updated McAfee...

i want to defrag my hard disk. when i run defrag it says errors are on disk so run scandisk. when i try to run scandisk it fails. Errors and then the machine locks up. I guess I need another copy of scandisk. Tried to go via MS website - nothing, tried help line, nothing. I have my Win98 disk I...

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...

win xp pro, "How to Back Up Files and Folders Note You must have permissions as an administrator or as a backup operator on your computer to back up files and folders. Also, backup operators and administrators can back up and restore encrypted files and folders without decrypting the files or...

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...

Have been trying to defrag my C drive. Status tells me that Windows is checking for errors but the details screen is completely blank and % completed remains 0. Remained that way all night. I've run the disk clean up. Any ideas?

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.

could somebody please direct me to a website in which will give me the option to create a windows98 dos boot up disk? i am in a huge hurry to help a fellow college student fix up her poor laptop which is running winme and i need to change it to win98, i have all of the software, but need the dos...

Whenever I try to access a floppy, I get Device Is Not Ready. 1. Have replaced Floppy Drive 2. Have replaced Floppy Cable (Light does NOT stay on) 3. Drive is correct in BIOS 4. Can boot to Command Prompt and Can run dir and see contents. 5. Have removed both floppy disk controller and disk, still...

I wish to upgrade to XP on my machine, currently the disc is partitioned. How do I remove the partition prior to installation. Can you help? Thanks

I have just recieved a message on my start screen telling me that my hard drive is going to fail.I'm running norton utility's and my sensors are confirming this as well.I have backed up my files on a rescue disk(floppy) and also burned important files onto a cd.My question is have I done enough to...

Can't access WORKS. Do not have disk. Need to use spreadsheets. Can I get replacement disk? My system is WINDOWS98 2nd.Edition Version 4.10.2222 Reg. No. 24004-OEM-0092566-49873

I had toreplace the hard drive on my Dell latitude xpi . i am look for the diskd to reinstall Windows . Any help will be greatly appreciated.