I purchased a used laptop running windows 95. Since the laptop does not have a CD rom, I need a diskette to install windows 98. where can I get one?????

Im having a problem with my floppy drive. It will not work in windows. I looked at the device manager and it said "Drive A is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system." How do I change this to use disks in windows. It also will not let me format the drive. What should I do? HELP!!!!!!!! Thank...

Hello, I have a computer running Windows 98. It had a 20gb HD in it, but as ive started to do some video editing with my DVD burner, I thought it might be wise to get a little more disk space. I got the specs for my current 20GB and found a 60GB HD that is the same make rpm, all that jazz. The...

I want to download a large webpage from the Internet to one or more floppy discs. How can I have the system alert me when one disc is full and then prompt me to insert the next disc?

While running a disk defrag the screensaver popped up and froze the computer. (This happened at some point while I was away from the computer asleep. I won't defrag without watching again!) The only recourse was to restart the computer. That failed to happen as Windows would not load up. I...

I am unable to access the cd drive. A message comes up with not accessible and device not ready yet if I put in a cd if I go to eject if will eject. When scan happens if if being read. Any ideas. Thanks muchly

When upgrading my win98 pc to xp, it worked first time round. I then deleted the contents of the c: as xp was on the d: (same disk). The problem i have now is that, the "drive is not ready" error comes up. I insert the win 98 boot disk (as it tells me to do), and it tells me the HD has no...

Hello, I cannot get windows to boot up (other than safe mode) and it tells me this - "Compatibility Mode Paging reduces overall system performance" for all my disks. I tried the microsoft site and it seems that the Esdi_506.pdr fix will do the trick but it isn't available!! Can anyone point me in...

Had to reformat hard drive. Tried to load Windows 98. Comes up with error message "Explorer page fault" Details. Explorer.exe@0167:0041F31 Enter and then computer goes blank. Do I need new disks and if so where can I get them. Thanks

My cd-rom drive was accidently deleted from my pc. How do I reinstall it?

For some reason, my C disk is suddenly full when previously there was 1 GB of memory free. The capacity on this disk is 4.75 GB and it is saying I have used 4.7 (up from 3.7 previously). I haven't downloaded anything recently except for ie6, which isn't even close to that size. I don't know much...

Help I am trying to configure my daughters IBM laptop(given to her by her grandmother/used) for wireless internet and the wireless installation requires some files found on the Windows 98 2nd edition CD which we do not have...who knows what mother did with. I cannot buy it from Microsoft, where...

I have a windows 98 operating systen disk that is cracked and will no longer work. Can i get a replacement?

I am fitting a new hard disk to my PC as a replacement for the original. I wish to run win ME. The PC is an HP Pavilion and came with a Win 98 'recovery' cd. Along the way I have upgraded to Win ME with a non-OEM Win ME 'upgrade' CD. I have all the necessary product keys and documentaion still with...

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...

i have a digital camera (sony dsc-p1, connected to usb), i've installed it's drivers, it appears in my computer as a removabile disk, but when i'm trying to access it (in order to get the photos), it says some kind of error. Anyway in the system information pannel, it says that the unit (the...

I have a second hand laptop which was supposed to have Windows 98 installed on it - it does not - Laptop is blank - does anyone now where I can get hold of Windows 98 download or CD ROM - I then need to install it from DOS Appreciate any assistance Allan

I have a bare deskstar 80gb. what is the best way to get my bios to see it so i can then format etc. my os is wind98. currently when i have it plugged up during startup, my pc freezes when detecting what is in that slot (secondary master).

Hi all, I am writing with a problem that needs expert help to solve: I have a hard drive that cannot be accesed in Windows 98 but I can access from from a dos prompt when I boot with the Win98 install disk. What I want to do is to copy certain files, directories,

Just curious. Does the disk defragmenter in Win 98 overwrite the empty space on the disk when it defragments? I know the defragmentation process reorganizes disk data so everything gets put back in its place for more efficient access, but what about overwriting empty space? Thanks. Bob