I have a copy of Win 98SE OEM, but the product key is lost. How can I obtain it from Microsoft?

I have a fully updated Win2k system with multiple hard drives and network shared drives. After drives, partitions & shares I have drive slots N, P, V, W, Y & Z available. When the USB card reader with 3 USP ports is added it is assigned N, P, V & W which works just fine. The problem comes in...

When clicking on to the Properties feature of the win386.swp file, should the "ARCHIVE" box be checked??

I installed a slaved 80gig HD because the primary HD had gotten to small. Win 98 recognizes C drive and the new D drive but but does not recognize the now e and f cdrom and cd/rw. The two cds are connected directly to the motherboard (Gateway).

I'm using MoveFileEx in an app, target win98 and later. On the german version of win98se, MoveFileEx may not work, but can be imported from an executable, so it seems I don't need to link (the ansi-version of) MoveFileEx dynamically. But I'm not sure if this is true for all versions of win98, so...

can someone tell me where i can get a win98 boot disk? i am trying to load win 98 but am having problems. i formatted the hard drive. i have a acer cd rom but do i have to install the drivers for that cd rom first so i can load win98 from the disk? if so, how do i do it? and of corse when the...

Is it possible to boot a Win98 box with the Win98 (floppy) Boot Disk and run the defrag command from there? Whenever I try this I get a message like "bad command" or "you must run this command from Windows". Alternatively, is it possible to run Windows (temporarily) from an external drive so that...

Windows 98 2nd ed.booted up fine before.No hardware failures . Now I copied some autocad drawing files which were on the root directory to a folder called "transfer" which I created on the Root C:\ wanting to transfer my files to another machine. After a reboot when I put in new IP address to put...

the fix to be able to install 46gig plus hard drives was only avail from tech support and they no longer supoort does any one else have a copy of FDisk for W98 later than 15 of dec 1999?? or m=know where to get one from???

I recently upgraded my windows from 98 to XP. In my impatience I completly forgot to backup any files or do any major preparation for an upgrade. My old documents are now gone and I was wondering if there is any possible way to retreive them be it downgrading back to 98 or something of that...

run msconfig click on the startup tab disble all item by clearing the check box. restart the windows. If the problem solved enable the item one by one (do not enable unwanted programes on the startup) the point where the problem appear again disable those item permanantly. -----Original...

I have a problem starting Windows. It opens in blue screen with options to open it in Normal or Safe Mode. After I choose Safe Mode, I get a message: "Now you can safety turn off your PC." When I choose Normal Mode, it does the same. I need help to solve this problem, or at least to know what...

Hi All, I could use some help, please: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Thanks in Advance

I have win98 on a CD and want to install it on an old laptop without cd-drive. can I transfer win98 to 3.5 disks? peter

I bought a used Toshiba notebook that had Win98 on it and it worked fine for several weeks. Recently I started having problems during boot-up that kept getting progressively worse. It finally got to the point of not loading 98 at all, with error messages stating various files were missing...

I have win 98 se Hebrew enabled. How do I turn it off and on at will? I want to install MSN9.0 but they insist that the "language" I am using is not supported. Help! Is there a way to fool MSN?

Dear MS Customer Support! I would like to convince You to enhance support for esdi_506.pdr IDE driver, becouse all current Intel based PC systems (chipset 865/875/915/925 with 48Bit BIOS suport) has controllers which use esdi_506.pdr driver to handle IDE drives. As all we know there is no support...

I am trying to load win98 and do not have a copy of the startup disk. I have the win98 cd,how do i create a floppy startup.

Hi I have win98se and have receive a HD to add to my system to back up some files to that I want to save so I can upgrade my machine soon. first: I had the hd checked for errors and checked ok. it is a complete empty hd too. Heres where I am so far. I installed the HD into my tower. Made sure...

I recently installed a new SATA hard drive in my computer along with my existing ATA hard drive. I want the SATA drive to be my primary boot drive. However, if the ATA drive is the boot drive, the system will not boot but if the SATA drive is the boot drive, the system will boot but the SATA drive...