I am installing an additonal 120gb hard disk to my Win 98SE system. Should I or must I partition it? What are the advantages of partitoning?

Hi! Please, if there is anyone familiar with this problem ... I do have IBM ThinkPad 570/Win98SE with Intel 440 chipset, and now after a Windows repair "re-upgrade" round I have lost the Generic Disk Drive entry from the Device Manager due to the IDE Controller loading problem. I have already...

Hi, as I am sure you guys know, W98 has problems with file sizes over 2GB. Has there ever been a workaround or other fix?

I have a homemade pc that I bought recently and just recently when i try to boot it will start opening windows and then immediatly windows will shut down from the startup screen (IT NEVER OPENS) the system has an intel mb and hardware but I know that it is not a hardware problem because when I put...

Hi! I don't know if this is in the right thread, but I need some help. I'm running Windows 98(SE) on an old PC which only has 7 gigs of HD space. Awhile back, I had to use my recovery disk to repair a huge problem. The problem that cropped up afterwards was that I was cut down to 3GB of disk space....

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...

HAVE A PC THAT DO NOT HAVE A FLOOPY DRIVE. DO ANY KNOW HOW TO MAKE A CD BOOT DISK WITH CD ROM SUPPORT. THANK YOU FOR THE HELP -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-98-file-system/200701/1

My scenario is as follows. Pentium III with Windows 98 that I want to use for backup storage. Secondary IDE has CD/DVD player as master and CD writer as slave. Primary IDE has 18 GB hard disk as master, which it boots from but is too small for storage. For an experiment, I stuck a 2 GB hard...

I have inherited a Panasonic Toughbook CF 25 with a 1.4 GB hard drive and a floppy drive only. It has a parallel port for printer but no USB port. It's pretty old. It has no OS. Can I install Windows 98? And if so how? GaelicForce --...

i copied some files needed (from my windows XP laptop for a friend who uses windows 98) onto a CD-RW cd. when i tried to use the cd in the windows 98 computer, the cd was not recognised and came up with an error message D:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready. is this an XP vs 98...

Hi, I put a new 80GB WD UDMA-5 hard drive into my old Intel 430TX UDMA-2 chipset board and am running Windows 98SE. The DMA checkbox (in Device Manager) in 98SE won't stay checked on this new drive. The DMA checkbox does remain checked on my CD-RW, and the other old 3GB drive. I can't find a...

I am trying to fresh install a Win98SE PC using brand new hardware including 2x 250gB SATA hard disks. BIOS/CMOS etc are all set correctly and reporting 250gB etc. Fdisk however only reports about 46gB each. I know the FAT32 limitations mean that I can only partition upto 128gB, so to keep things...

I've a Chembook 2020 laptop running W98SE (fully up to date) from one internal 40Gb disk as C: drive. Recently, It was docked in a base unit carrying a CDROM drive and a 128Mb USB JumpDrive "disk". I then hibernated it (BIOS- style save-to-disk). When I powered it up later, I had undocked it. I...

Hi all, I have an SATA 160G HD formatted in WinXP as FAT32. But everytime I boot up Windows 98 SE it hangs. I wonder if it is the size of the HD or the SATA interface that has a problem with Win98. Please help. Thanks

Hi, I want to add an 80GB HD to my Win98 system. I know that 98 has problems recognizing drives bigger than 64GB, so my question is this: Do I download the 64GB fdisk fix first, or should I connect the new drive and then download the fdisk fix? I have one mo The fdisk fix needs to be "run" or...

I was wondering how old does a pc need to be before it should be dumped and a new one bought? Mine is running fine(It's just 3 years old). I'm not interested in replacing the hard drive when the time comes or even for size purposes. But I do feel under pressure to buy a new pc as hard drive sizes,...

Since I had Dell factory boot disc used that instead of creating a new one.Like most of the instructions out there,there is a little vagueness about when,if ever,the W98 CD is removed and replaced.After I have received warnings and am offered "create new DOS partition, I am the point beyond second...

My Lexar Jumpdrive (USB drive) only showup under Windows Explorer or in "MY COMPUTER" as removal drive if and only if I plug it in the USB port and re-boot the system. I have installed the drivers provided for my WIN98SE machine and have the setting in Device manager to show this as removal...

I had a bad mother board in one computer so I changed hard drives and video cards to another computer with a good mother board and now I get the erro. I downloaded a bootdisk from bootdisk.com but its not working it says to remove all media and restart. I can't get the c prompt to come up by...

With 2 disks, can I shut one off without pulling a cabel? Cant see it in BIOS.