after formating c drive, i inserted the win 98 SE in the cd rom drive and typed setup. scandisk applied and there was no error with my disk drive but after that this appears: Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS Extender EC=0000 CS=0053 IP=232F AX=0000 BX=0BFF CX=0000 DX=FFF0 SI=35EC DI=FFE8 BP=0000...

I went into msconfig and then to the start tab and took off some check marks. (Some I should not have!)Now I can not get the computer to start up windows 98. I can get it to go happily into the safe mode but not the normal mode. Is there as way I can reset what I did?

I have some old 5 1/4" diskettes that I needed to access. I installed the floppy drive as drive B. I set the BIOS to reflect the install. Win98SE does not see the floppy. However, if I boot with the Win98SE startup diskette into DOS, I can see and use the floppy drive. What setting am I missing...

i sent the coupon off back in 98 to get in windows 98 on floppies as at the time i didn't have a cdrom drive - i still don't as the system is too old to support one! since then floppies 1,7,9,10 have all given up the chase and died, any ideas where i could get replacment ones or download them off...

How do I reset the Win 98 Start Programs menu so it displays multiple columns instead of a single column with a scroll control at the botton? I looked through the Knowledge Base as I thought I remembered seeing the fix posted there but can no longer find the article.

I just restored my 98SE OS, and when loading programs, I get the following messages consistently: "Error Starting Program: The MSI.DLL file is linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:NtQueryInformationProcess." and "SETUPWRAPPER: An error occurred. Your installation may not be complete. Error =...

How do I install windows 98 on a laptop that does not have a CD rom drive ?

my 98 disc has got a bad scratch and causes a hdd fatal error while loading how can i replace it or do i have to buy new

I am having trouble mounting my C drive, it keeps saying that the drvspace files are not found. Please help

Hi, for a school with about 60 Systems (inhomognous) I have created a master system based on Windows98. before imaging I want to reset the hardware-information. There is a RegKey that can be set and Win98 forgets everything and starts from scratch with the detection. The person who knows the key...

My granddaughters Aptiva computer bought in 98 worked fine until last night. Turned it on and got the Microsoft startup menu. Hit safe mode, the grey box came up with "This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down." Looked at details, said "explorer caused an invalid page fault...

Hi, I keep getting a program that loads up on startup even when I removed it off the system and checked off its box in the Startup tab of msconfig. It seems that even when I check off its box in msconfig it still loads up on startup. I go back to msconfig only to find a ticked check box. It like...

Hello and thanks for the help, How do I add a login password that can NOT be defeated by just clicking on "exit" in the logon box? I don't want anyone accessing my machine without first typing in the password. Unfortunately, any logon password that I've created can be easily defeated by just...

I've tried a few methods, but I cant get the setup on windows 98 disc to work. Im trying to upgrade from nt. I have two hard drive. I formated the unused one, then the latest way was I copied all of the win98 files onto the hd. When I restart the computer with the boot disc, and...

The computer will only allow me to boot in safe mode. I already had 128MB of memory so I added 256MB to install Windows XP, however, it won't let me install that either. Gives me a fdc.sys error

How do you change the re/g owner name in the system properties

I attempted to install an ADAPTEC 2930 SCSI card and a second CD-RW drive. After installing the SCSI drive and restarting, I received a blue screen indicating that there was incompatible hardware and that the system would restart in compatibility mode the next time. It apparently did, and does...

I've mucked up the hardware settings in Win98 for the Hitachi GD2500 DVD ROM. It has the right driver installed. It happily reads CD's but won't play DVD's anymore. There are about 4 tick boxes under setup, including 'DMA', 'disconnect' etc. Does anyone know the right set up please. Thanks

Problem is that the Internet connection is usually broken after 5 to 10 minutes on the new PC (ASUS Pentium 4.) Although we are on a rural phone line, this does not happen on the old PC (Pentium 2) which connects well and stays connected. The problem may be / System / Network configuration. The...

i added a new cd,rw drive(D) to my pc and when i tryed to run the install disk i recieved a error message that said (the msiexe.exe file is linked to missing export mdi.ddl:222.)so i ended the install disk but i then noticed that my other drive (cd,dvd drive)(Q)had stoped responding,if i put an...