I have a dual boot system consisting of win98se and windows xp. Presently I am using an IDE switch box to use the system with that has a cd burner for 98 and then I use the dvd burner for xp. The reason I do this is because when I boot the system with the dvd drive there isnt even a drive...

Hi While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot. Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive running win 98 se. I am...

I have a friend w/ a pentium 3 Gateway machine (OEM OS has been removed previously and Windows OS/98 and Windows OS/XP had been loaded and working great.) that has two hard drives, one with Windows OS/98 and the other drive with Windows OS/XP. Recently he believes that his system was attacked by a...

A friend is having trouble with floppy disks which the system will not fill. They take about 800 kB and then reject any further files. He has lots of small text files and I wondered if there is an upper limit to the number of files W. will store on a floppy. Can anyone suggest what might be...

Hi All, I need to get some information on the implementation of FAT for an embedded system environment. I am developing a system with an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) on it. The FPGA is supposed to read and write data to/from the hard-disk. There is no operating system involved which can...

Hi everyone, I have a problem with a portable usb 2G micro hard drive. I use(d) it a lot and now it has decided to stop working. Worst case and most likely cause is that its a problem with the interface electroncs rather than the physical disk. The problem for me is that the store will happily give...

Hi, I recently got told by my OS (Windows 98) that I have a few bad/damaged clusters on my hard drive. I've run Scandisk throughly and told Scandisk to fix any errors however they're still there, I've also ran Disk Defragmenter. My PC now runs much slower than usual and startup takes a long...

Hello, The directory tree in Windows Explorer has been renamed for some reason. I think a scandisk operation caused it. I have replaced C:\My Documents by creating a new folder and downloading my files from the server.....creating a new directory tree for my documents. I want to rename the ERROR:...

HAVE A PC THAT DO NOT HAVE A FLOOPY DRIVE. DO ANY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A CD BOOT DISK WITH CD ROM SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR THE HELP -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-98-file-system/200701/1

I see so many people looking for Windows 98 on Floppys. I managed to get my hands on a set a long time ago and I used winimage to make a image file of each disk in case they ever got corrupted. It took me forever to find a set, My friend used to have it on floppy, and I wanted them but he wouldnt...

Hello, I am going to be reinstalling microsoft 98 on a friends computer the only thing is I have a genuine cd, BUT, I have lost the cd key for it. Does anyone know if i could do it without or how to get hold of one. ???? All help REALLY appreciated Thanks Ryan

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Hi, I have three computers that developed problems with reading floppy disks. Note: This problem occurred at a different time for each computer. What is the most common problem with floppy disk drives? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password,...

Hi, One problem floppy drive in a laptop, I hear a "wine" noise (belt slip) during an attempt to read a floppy. I removed the floppy drive and checked it. I removed the belt and cleaned it with a rubber cleaner/revitalizer. Afterwards, no more "wine" noise and the floppy drive can read/write...

Hi All I wanted to use the HD from my old Windows 98 PC for storage on my Windows XP Home PC. so I formated the drive. Having purchased a bigger storage HD for my XP PC I decided to refit the old drive back into my Windows 98 PC. Problem is the computer can not find the HD so I find it...

My Windows 98SE machine has just failed after years of good service - BIOS problem I think. I have removed its hard drive, fitted it into a usb enclosure and connected it to my XP Pro laptop. The drive has several partitions on it, most of which are FAT32 or FAT - these are all readable. But one...

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I have a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS laptop that includes a floppy disk drive (a:) and a CDROM drive (d:). (1) I cannot access these drives properly. The floppy disk drive can read some floppy disks and not others. Some disks it signals as not properly formatted, others it states it cannot...

Windows 98, 2000 On a Dell machine, originally had Windows 2000 installed, became unbootable, giving "Inaccessible boot device". I added another HD already formatted with Windows 98 as Master, made the original HD the slave. Now booting, BIOS sees both HDs, but My Computer only shows C: HD and...

I have a PC with 98SE and two hard disks. One is FAT16 the other FAT32. I tried a disk diagnostic program yesterday, and it said the FAT32 disk was scoring almost 3 times as many bytes/second as the FAT16! Now I was told there is little difference in performance if you change a disk from FAT16 to...