I'm having troulble installing a USB flash drive. The install is looking for the file diskdrv.cat but when I search I am unable to find it. Any ideas??

Hey everyone. I have a Dell Latitude CPt laptop and I installed Windows 98 on it. Everything's working, but the display is only about half the screen, and I can only get 16 colors. It won't let me make the screen any bigger. I've tried the "Setting; Advanced; Monitor; Change" and then the ...

I have been trying to update Firmware for my CD writer, and turning OFF DMA may be required. However there is no checkbox to facilitate this action. In fact, none of my devices has a checbox to either turn DMA 'on' OR 'off'. I am pretty sure that I have seen this available in the past, but am...

Hi, I put a new 80GB WD UDMA-5 hard drive into my old Intel 430TX UDMA-2 chipset board and am running Windows 98SE. The DMA checkbox (in Device Manager) in 98SE won't stay checked on this new drive. The DMA checkbox does remain checked on my CD-RW, and the other old 3GB drive. I can't find a...

i want to install a web cam but i need the windows 98 disc. i have windows 98 why do i need the disc?

"The disk in drive A: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now"? Anyone know why I would be getting this message in Windows 98? I get the message on any floppy disk I try to use in normal Win98 mode. The floppy drive works fine when I'm in 'safemode', or 'Booting' from it on the same...

(Also in XP section in error, sorry). Docs being saved to floppy, 2nd disk used for 2nd batch. 1st disk put back in and message appeared 'disk not formatted would you like to format'. Yes selected. Disk had 14 documents on, cut and paste from the My Docs folder. Recycle bin empty, and docs...

If windows is open, the partition it resides in has open system files sourced from the hard drive at boot time. Generally speaking, these reside in memory until windows finishes shutdown. wrote in message ... ...

Qick synapsis. I deleted a file with Quick clean that when windows loaded, only my background appeared(no icons) and a message appeared saying the windows explorer created an invalid page fault. Nothing else. I tried(this is a gateway solo laptop) to reinstall windows twice, but I was inable to...

Trying to use dos undelete from a floppy. When you run it it says "ERROR : library file missing. Any idea what file it's talking about?

Hi. I had to replace my old hard drive, which waas failing, with a new one. I copied the partition onto my new hard drive. Everything works great except when I open "My Computer" and double click the new hard drive, nothing happens. I have to right click--open for it to open up. If I double click...

how do i download 98 boot disks?

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 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?

I want to download some games for my son's computer that isn't on line but the games take up more space than the disk allows. I don't know much about zip files but, is that what I have to do to download games? Can anyone tell me a simple way to do it?

Here is a draft--feel free to edit/delete Hi Mark, I have contacted all of my family members and everyone wants to go to court. My cousin Linda Jones will file suit to (at a minimum) get rid of the Feb 05 Will. We also want to explore some ideas about the Sugg St property and perhaps the Dec 04...

I recently upgraded my motherboard to gain an AGP socket; and now Windows 98SE says it can't find the B: drive (it's a 5.25" FDD) - although when I insert the Startup disk, the DOS DOES find and access the drive just fine! Any I deas? Someone suggested a BIOS upgrade, but with Command.com able to...

hi there, I have attached a new floppy drive recently and it was working fine but now i am getting a message saying drive a is not accessible. any help please? thanks in advance

I got a curious problem that puzzles me. I have a PI 200MHz system with the following drive setup (2 drives and DVD's with the standard IDE controller, 4 drives via a Promise ata100 TX2): - c: 2.5 GB standard IDE primary master - d: 1.5 GB standard IDE primary slave - e: 7 GB Promise IDE primary...

I'm running a Dual-boot 98SE/WinXp Pro setup. Two HDs. A 200G Maxtor with an 80G WD. The 80G used to hold my 98 Then I purchased the 200G, partitioned (4) and cloned 98 to the first partition, installed XP Home to the second and voila. I had a functioning dual-boot rig. After big problems...