I trying to reinstall Win98, but when it gets to the part about "Loading system files for setup" or something of that nature it just stays there. It is also still in dos mode. Pleasssssse help. What am I doing wrong?

I have a Windows 98 computer that defaults to online at start-up. I am not able to open "My Computer" unless my ISP is open. I can remove the check mark for operating on- line and everything is fine until I shut down and at start-up it defaults back to operating on-line. How can I remove the...

I have Windows98 Second Edition and need to reboot my computer back to factory specs. Can someone help explain the procedure?

Hi, I've been running Windows98 SE for about 5 years fairly problem free but just recently my PC is hanging whether I am using it or not. CRTL ALT DEL does nothing and I have to turn it off completely and reboot. How can I find out what is causing it and fix it. I don't have any bugs on the...

Thank You for responding so quickly to my request, it is truly apprciated. josh

While trying to reinstall Windows98se, the setup program gets to the "Updating System Settings" with 4 minutes to go and it just hangs there. I've tried 3 time and get the exact same results. Can anyone help me?

I re-installed Windows 98 two months ago and the system was working fine until one week ago. When I tried to turn on the pc, it did not go thru its normal progressions. In other words, its was not booting up. It just had a blinking cursur underneath the text as follows; Award Modular Bios v4,51pg,...

Help? How to enable simultanious support for English and Hindi Language in Windows-98? Where to find Hindi fonts? How to select keyboard? How to enter text in Hindi? How to switch back to English? How to trigger this in other third party software? thanks

Hi all, A small church came to me to setup 4 computers with Windows 98 SE on them. They had four OEM packs, one for each computer. I opened one of them and installed it on all four computers using the same KEY ID number since I thought that if they had four COA's that the legal letter of the law...

i am tring to Install the cd it give a errorit read this error14x20x0xtricode default ?

My system has two physically identical hard drives, C and D, plus a CDROM designated E:. I formatted C and did a clean install of 98SE. However, for some reason it created a new hard drive named E: and labelled the CDROM as F: C: is ok and contains Windows and the programs. D: shows as a zero byte...

Have 4-5 year old compaq laptop and ran into many strange issues due to virus and spy ware. As a last ditch effort, had a brilliant idea to run the Emerency Recovery Disk. Now I'm receiving the error message "Operating System Not Found" upon start-up. I have since read further and learned that I...

I would welcome advice as how to load Windows 98 into my computer. After reformatting the hard drive the method I have used previously no longer works. One possible reason is that I upgraded the CD Rom, though I have now connected the original CD Rom back as before. I can hear the CD Rom rotating...

I have a computer currently running Windows 98 1st edition, I need to upgrade the operating system in order to be able to use the machine for broadband internet. I cannot risk loosing any of the applications or data stored on the machine currently. I have a Window 98se disk that came with another...

My boot floppy disk will not run my cd rom to re-install windows. It says the OEMCD001 drive is missing. How do I fix this?

please tell me how to finish installing windows if you no longer have the product key, I can find my cd case and have to reinstall windows.

After Installing Windows 98 I get the following message: "fatal exception 0E has occured at xxxxxx in VXD VWIN32(5) +00003554" Thanks for your help please, Marc

I'm trying to sort out a problem for a friend. They have a mature installation of W98se on a laptop which works well except that suddenly about 10 days ago it started acting slightly oddly. Various things work when approached one way, but not another eg a Word document will open from within Word,...

I am trying to load Windows 98 SE onto a formatted hard drive. The computer worked fine before I formatted it. When I try to reinstall Windows from the CD the computer runs ScanDisk and the says; please remove all disks from the floppy drive and press any key to restart your computer. (or...

How to install windows 98 on a 48MB flash disk