Hi Have a hdd which has suddenly developed bad sectors/clusters. Currently I cannot boot to windows so I booted to the command prompt and ran a surface scan dos utility with the auto fix switch. This surface scan dos utility has been running day and night for 4 days and has 1200+ bad clusters.

In Windows 2000 and XP, one goes through the system tray and remove it by telling Windows that you're not using the drive anymore because of possible data loss. I assume it was the same for 9x, but then I noticed USB system tray icon was missing. PCMCIA system tray icon exists to stop the devices...

Hi, New to this so please excuse me if I ask silly questions. I just installed a second hard drive into my Gtaeway computer which is running 98SE. It is a Samsung 80Gig drive. I did the partitioning and format and I only got 32 gig. I was told that the BIOS may not support the 80Gig drive so I...

I have only one floppy drive in reality. It was faulty so I installed a new one yesterday. Since then, Windows recognises the new drive but as drive B and insists that the old drive is still there as drive A. This isn't just a minor point as certain functions (such as creating a startup disc)...

A coworker was messing around with his laptop yesterday (he thinks BIOS settings) and now can no longer boot WIN98 from his hard drive. When we use an external floppy (IBM ThinkPad 310ED - because there isn't one on board) and a WIN98 boot floppy, we can't get to drive C. I can get to D - CDROM,...

Hi, I installed a 20G HDD in my Windows 98se computer. With one partition, I formatted it. The results is 16K byte clusters. With a FAT32 system, a 32 bit number ("index") can represent around 4.3G. This in effect should allow around 4 billion clusters maximum. The major reason for a...

Hello all, I've recently put a 40 GB drive in an external enclosure with an USB connection, but have problems with using the drive. When I try to partition the drive (using the standard W98se FDISK) it comes back as a a drive of only 6 GB (which probably has to do with the 32 GB-limit). Applying...

Thought I had investigated what had to be done, but unfortunately I am now stuck. In short, I have put in a second hard disk with its own controller card. The computer sees the disk ok, partionioning the disk made win98 see the disk and its capacity ok. Formatting the disk went ok, but win98...

I sincerely appreciate the help I've received regarding how to remove malware, but at this point it would be easier to simply uninstall IE6 and reinstall it. Is there anybody out there who knows how to do this? The only options offered under add/remove programs for IE6 are to either repair the...

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?

How do I change my 2nd HD from NTFS to FAT32? How can I tell if it is NTFS? I am running win98 and it is not being seen by it. My Bios does recognize it tho.

Hello, I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM). He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it opened and saved on...

I see so many people looking for Windows 98 on Floppys. I managed to get my hands on a set a long time ago and I used winimage to make a image file of each disk in case they ever got corrupted. It took me forever to find a set, My friend used to have it on floppy, and I wanted them but he wouldnt...

I had to format my PC last week, and now my PC doesn't allow me to mount compressed 'floppies' anymore - the CD I used to install Windows 98 doesn't seem to have those files! How can I get Drivespace 3 back? I need the files on those compressed disks, and don't know anyone with a Win98...

My system is running Win98SE. I have PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0 installed. When I try to copy a partition, I get the following error message: "Error 626. Operation is to be performed on a hard drive not visible from boot-mode." This error message occurs when PM8 goes into

just put in a 20Gb hard drive on a 7 year old toshiba laptop. chose all the correct yes and no's for a HDD greater than 512Mb. but shows only the c drive as around 7.36Gb. where did i go wrong? tks guys -- *Put the cat out at night* when you reply

I started getting the hard disk full warning when my 2.2gig C:\ was about half full. Without adding any further software to the disk it now shows the disk as almost totally full. Waht could be filling my hard drive? I have ran disk cleanup and found nothing that seems to be hogging the drive.

I am trying to help out a friend with a computer problem but what I am trying to achieve may not be possible - any advice would be appreciated. His computer runs Win XP Home but currently will not boot further than the 'Welcome' screen. We suspect a virus has cause the problem - someone else was...

I have a HD from a previous machine (Win95) that I want to install in a Win98SE machine as a slave. I don't want to reformat this slave HD I just want to read info from it (data, etc.). I have used Cable Select to connect the HDs and both the BIOS and Device Manager recognize the slave drive...

im trying to reformat to reinstall on a clean disk i used the fdisc tool and now need to format the disk but when i type formatc: i get a" bad command or file name message" ,i also tried extractebd.cabformat.com but get the same result i have the boot disk and the install cd what can i do to get...