Did you remember to make the partition "Active" when you were doing the fdisk? Of course you are doing fdisk and the format from a boot floppy arn't you! I did it all and I got very usefull advice here. Now starting with diagnostic tools called "DFT" for my IBM DCXA 210000 hard drive and...

I randomly get a blue screen with the message "Disk error. Cannot write to disk in drive D. Data might be lost or corrupted. Press any key to continue." I continue with no corruption or data loss. There is no eror code. 2 HDD C is master, D is slave. Installed all W98SE startup and shutdown...

Chas: = I randomly get a blue screen with the message "Disk error. Cannot write to dis = in drive D. Data might be lost or corrupted. Press any key to continue." I = ontinue with no corruption or data loss. There is no eror code. 2 HDD C i ma = ter, D is slave. Installed all W98SE...

I am having a problem where the error message, "disk Write Error" pops up as I am working on my computer. Also it disables saving to the disk for some applications. There appears to be something wrong with the disk files as Scan Disk keeps getting errors when writing to the root directory that...

hola: I received this error randomly "ERROR EXCEPTION 0000:00000813" Need to know what kind of error is, in order to replace the part. Is memory error or video card error or what?

On boot-up, I get the following: Cannot import C:\WINDOWS\sp.dll: Error opening file. There may be a disc or file system error. What does it mean and how do I fix this? Thanks in advance, John

"error starting program ' A required .DLL file, PSAPI.DLL was not found'" has begun to appear on my windows screen tonight while working on finding an answer to my previous error message. or did I pick up a virus somewhere? or a worm or trojan? Do the .DLL files become corrupted from hitchhikers...

When I boot the PC up a box with this message shows up and indicates that an illegal operation has taken place and then a second smaller box appears eith the message "Error 216" The only effect these seems to have on the PC is that recently my always-on internet connection disengages and the...

I am getting this message when I go into internet explorer. If I answer it, windows restarts. If I ignore it, I can run other programs. What should I look for? Thanks

Hi all, I keep getting the error message ""EXPLORER has caused an invalid page fault in module USER.EXE at 0003:00009914," after which Windows Explorer shuts down and freezes the computer, necessitating a power off and restart. This is is usually related to running maintenance programs such...

I have a customer who is getting an error... "fatal exception OE has occured @ 0028:C0003EBC in VXD VMM(01)+0000ZE8C" also this customers mouse freezes and needs to be rebooted. I have done numerous adware/spyware cleans adaware spysweeper adware away

Can anyone tell me what the subject means and how to fix it? Had a crash and loaded the Gateway restoration disk... this was the message tha I received. Thanks for any assistance.

Is there anywhere offering tips on "find" topic discrimination searches? Within a Database of Images 80,000 If I seek an image I know to be "Sydney Harbour" Is there a way to locate the scan, without also farming every "Sydney" and every "Harbour" as well? Thanks. I did post a query last evening,...

My PC is Windows 98, 128 MB RAM. I've been having problems with some webpages shutting down (none in particular...happens at random). I scanned for Spyware and viruses and all is clean. I fixed and reinstalled IE (6)....did not help. I was told the problem is with Windows (DLL). See error msg...

While I was on this group checking for responces to an earlier post I got a message saying a "required DLL was not found." DNSAPI.DLL I have downloaded all the updates, security, etc. going back since May of '02 for win98. While downloading it said I needed jscript.dll from Windows Script 5.6. The...

My "views" work except for showing "detail" view... In my computer windows. When I check "details" I don't see any files at all.

I am running Windows 98 SE and had some virus problems. I have hancled the virus problems but I am now having problems with the "My Computer" icon. When I double-click it, it feezes my desktop. If I startup my computer I can run everything normally but as soon as I double-click the icon it...

Sometimes when I click on one of the folders in "My Docs" the computer freezes. Then the desk top safe mode appears. If I click "restore my active desktop" the problem resolves temporarily. This happens over and over again. Any solutions?

I'm running 98SE and whenever i right-click on the desktop and select "New", explorer crashes. i've tried over-installing windows without success. for what it's worth, here's the crash dump. thanks for any help. EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module unknown at...

The "New" option has vanished from the right click menu in Windows Explorer (WIN98 SE). It's even missing in the File pull down. I can access the drive through the network from another WIN98 PC and it works fine from there. Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to get it back. Ron R