HI IF I UP GRADE FROM WIN 98 TO WIN 2000 WILL I LOSE ANY INFORMATION THAT I HAVE SAVED, EG PHOTOS AND PROMGRAMS. THANKS.

My Win98 will not boot. I get a message in DOS: "While initilalizing device WDCTRL the Micro House(tm) 32 bit disk for Microsoft(MH32bit.386) has detected a hardisk with a geometry thta cannot be supported." What does it mean? How can I solve this? Help please! Ted

How do I set my computer to auto play a program CD? Thank-you

Hi, i have installed windows 98 on a presario 1710sb laptop 200mmx 96 meg. I used a startup up floppy and reformatted the hard drive did a fresh install of 98. The cd works from the dos setup command but when windows first runs the cdrom does not show up and a lot of the drivers that require the...

Hi, I can't find my Windows start-up disk and need to recreate one without my CD (already tried making one with control panel). Help! J Lo

We have a client that has a computer showing the HD twice in My Computer as C: and D: In device manager there is only one drive listed. If you go to a command prompt it is also showing C: and D:. (with the same directory structure). Safe mode, however, only shows C:. and FDISK shows only...

I have recently purchased a MP3 CD Player manufactured by Philips for Nike. The MP3 Player plays only 8cm CD's and came with software which enables you to download music to your computer and then burn it to a blank recordable 8cm CD. However my computer(windows 98) keeps telling me that it cannot...

I want re-format my existing computer (Win98se OS) by loading Win98 to a clean drive. Do I need to use the "fdisk" tool to repartition the drive, or can I just begin with the "format" tool? Is there an advantage to recreating a primary partition or is OK to use the existing one?

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...

Problem Microsoft Defragmatation Program freezes at 10% complete when approaching a black cluster which the Defrag Legend defines as belonging at the end of the drive. The only way out of the freeze state is to power off and power on. How can you help me so I can completely defrag my entire...

Problem Microsoft Defragmatation Program freezes at 10% complete when approaching a black cluster which the Defrag Legend defines as belonging at the end of the drive. The only way out of the freeze state is to power off and power on. How can you help me so I can completely defrag my entire...

Currently i am using 4 GB Hard disk.......................and now i want to upgrade this to 80 GB.so what i want to know is ? can i go with the mother board which i am using currently or whether i have to upgrade my mother board?...................waitng for the reply.Thank you.

I'm trying to network my daughter's computer and it's telling me that I need to insert the windows 98 companion cd, I can't find it, is there anywhere on the net that i can get one?

The 'Recycle Bin' properties allow one to 'Configure Drives Independently'. When I apply this (radio button) setting,it flops back to the 'Use one Setting For All Drives' at the next power down-up cycle. I've deleted all 8 'recycled' files on the partitioned hard disk drives and let Win98SE...

I just reformatted my system and loaded Win98 SE. I deleted the primary partition and then created a new one using Fdisk - I only have 1 partition and 1 physical drive. Everything appears to be working fine, except that I cannot properly install my modem (US Robotics Sportster 56K, USR5699B). If...

My computer doesn't reconize cd rom present, this was sudden and they have been working. Can't find icons they are missing. nothing in explorer to indicate cd roms present. Does not show drives. Please help dont know what happened. Curently running os 98. previously happened while running windows...

How do I drag and drop files on c drive onto d drive disk?

I have lost the product key to my OEM Win98 install disk. Is there anyway to get a new disk or to get the product key? I have reformated my HD to get rid of garbage and then realized that I had lost may product key. Morris

Cannot boot up. I can see C: in dos but windows won't load as usual! Since our manufacturing system is down my boss has given me this other machine to play with and attempt to fix. I am running win98 and it just plain won't boot into windows. With a boot disk I can get into C. I have run scandisk...

How do I drag and drop files on c drive onto d drive disk?