I recently copied some files from my old Win98 PC onto a my new WinXP PC, but I cannot open any of the files (doc/jpg/txt etc.) it just says 'Invalid file format' or 'file not recognized'. I've tried copying via floppy, mem stick, and putting the drive as a slave in my new pc, but nothing works!...

Hi, I was helping a friend (or so they thought) and formatted the hard drive on an old laptop of theirs before they were sending it to Sierra Leone. I managed to format the drive, and created a boot disk and have got it to the final stage of re-installing Windows98, however I need the product key...

i've been having a problem running a zonealarm installation program - it gives me validation errors. their forum gives instructions for dealing with this but in my case they don't solve the problem. i've downloaded a certificate from verisign called getrootcert.cer but when i install it i get the...

I have Windows 98SE. I am attempting to use Maintenance Wizard. I will run thru Disk Cleanup and Scan Disk fine, but the Defragmenting part of the process seems to get stuck at 10%. I have had it running over night and still all I get is 10%. Sometime I will see message file changed starting...

I have no floppy drives anymore and I need to make a window 98 SE, Milenium boot disk, my old one wore out. I have some old systems I am working on and I use it a lot; but I never made more than 1 disk (dumb). I would make my own, but I don't have a working system from that era to make a new...

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...

I am trying to help someone over the phone who has some technical ability with his 2 WIN98 (???SE) PC's. Unfortunately I have not used WIN 98 for a very long time. His problem is that his Logitech PS2 mouse has stopped working on PC #1. It works on other machines and it appears that the...

Well, I bought a 250GB Seagate hdd (Pata) to make it my new boot device (on a Athlon Xp 2000, Kudoz motherboard, 768MB Ram - my Bios recognize correctly new boy's size). On my current boot (and only) hdd I've got 4 Fat32 partitions, with 98SE on C: and XpPro on D: What do I do to maintain this...

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...

Hi, I am a heavy user of USB flash drives such as the Lexar "Jump Drive" 1G and 2G types. I use these to transfer stuff from one computer to another, then delete (clear) the flash drive for more stuff. What is the life span of a USB flash drive (example 1000 re-writes)? ...

Hi, Running Windows XP (SP2) and still using Partition Magic 7.0 (with an update or two) and Drive Image 2002. No problems yet, but I realize eventually I'll need to jump to another product. I'd like to know, if possible, consensus as to best current mainstream replacement for both. I know...

I lost my boot disk for Win98 Millenium. How do I get a new one. I have lots for Win98SE. But I believe they won't work (fully) for the Millenium version?? Anyone please?

I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it...

How can I tell if I have a cable select computer or cable? I have a Compaq Presario 5204. The paper manual says if you connect an additional IDE (hard drives?) to set the jumpers to cable select. If I understand cable select allows the derive at the end to be the primary (master and the middle on...

Hi, I have a Compaq Contura 410C laptop (bought around 1997) which I do not use a lot. When I first power it up (external power, not battery), the floppy disk drive works just fine for about 10 minutes. Afterwards, I have trouble reading floppy disks (drive not ready type of problem). I...

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...

Programs of formatting a hard disk checks its surface and excludes the damaged (unreliable) places from further use - this is written in the manual. Clearly, that if after formatting a hard disk something will be written on it, these excluded places will not be used. And will it be fair in the...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...

I am running windows 98se (just installing it and most of my old stuff) I did a clean install from plain windows 98 to put a creative labs web cam on it. During the cam instalation had a lot of problems. Finally got it to work. But now at boot up it says I am missing vredir.vxd,dfs.vxd &...

Sorry both drives are win 98se Paul