I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my...

When this particular machine boots, hitting f8 gets you the menu that lets you go into pure DOS. Isn't there some binary .sys file you replace with a text version in order to get this startup menu automatically? - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus,...

My computer shut down on me last night in the middle of recording (i use cakewalk 9). I tried starting it back up and got this message error occured himem.sys is missing after loading the recover cd, i was able to start back up in safe mode. Luckily my wav files were not missing. The only...

Is there a list somewhere of registry entries for owner's names? I am using an OLD laptop to run Microsoft Word 97 in night school until they can fix the scheduling screw-up and put us in a lab. This laptop was given to me over 5 years ago by my mother's cousin when she upgraded. I changed the...

i have a plextor Px716A cd/dvd drive. I'm having problems with the initial setup install for win98se. the installation of win98se was supposed to be installed to a scsi hard drive (C:), however, computer isn't seeing the Plextor drive as E:. so, I can't get the install going. it worked fine...

I have an old Compaq Presario PC with Win 98 installed and it just stopped allowing Windows to run. I've got a Win98 boot disk with CD-ROM support and the Win98 CD that came with the PC and I can boot with it just fine to a DOS prompt. but when I try to run SETUP from the CD, it keeps telling me...

I just bought an Iomega external hard drive and danged if I can't get it to work. I followed the instructions to the letter, which weren't much -- "Put in the CD. Run start.exe. Reboot. Plug in the AC to the drive. Connect the USB cable to the computer." Hit don't work. The USB is from a card. ...

Pardon my ignorance on this subject, but I would like to know where to acquire the SE upgrade for W98 presently installed on a laptop my daughter gave me. Have stumbled around all over the MS web site but came up empty. Perhaps you can steer me in the right direction?

My ESS modem reports that the port is busy. How can I find out why? I formatted the hard drive on my Winbook laptop and started to do a clean install of win 98SE. I have a combination M2EM PCI (Maestro) sound card / modem made by ESS. I followed the Winbook's instructions to get the sound card and...

I am running on Windows98 second edition. When in DOS if I type the command Exit to go back to Windows, the system stalls. I then do alt, ctrl, del, which gets me up on Windows. I am not experiencing any other troubles; it is just that this use to work and it doesn't. I get to DOS by doing...

Is there a way to backup the desktop layout. I get a lot of crashes lately and often the desktop icons come up all squashed to one side. I tried to find a file that has those settings, but no luck. I think now that it is integrated into the swap file... Any advise will be...

(cross-posting to unrelated groups reduced) Does it give this error no matter what disc you try in the drive? Have you tried an audio CD in the drive....will it play? Boot up with a startup floppy disk with CD-ROM support, note the drive letter it assigns to the CD drive, and try doing a DIR...

After I reformatted win 98, it will only start up with the aid of reinstall disc. IT goes through the start up page, I can access the setup page, then just get white blinking cursor. Waht am i dong wrong? -- Debbie

Anyone familiar w/this error may know that MS offers a patch, but I have no idea how to install it, since it doesn't seem to run w/in DOS, and I can't boot in W98. Stuck... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q243199/

Ive just formatted my HDD and tried to reinstall and i get "Bad fault in MS-DOS Extender" Ive reset the CMOS, changed ram, CPU, hdd and still nothing ive tried another boot disk as well, still no difference

I install win 98 from scratch but when windows is doing the personal setting when the wizard reads "Default Channel Setup" the system just shutdown. Can I have any suggestions? Thanks in advance -- Pao Pao

I am going to ask this question, and then duck so that I don't get hit by all the stuff that is about to be thrown at me. Machine specs - Gateway 1ghz - Win98SE I was updating my BIOS and did a Ctrl-Break in the middle of the update (hey that old shoe just missed me) I know, I know STUPID - but...

I just recently put a brand new 40gb hard drive into a relatives computer. Everything seems to be installed correctly but I am having a problem installing windows onto that new hard drive. I hope someone out there can help me. First of all, I can't open the CDROM drive (either one, even have an...

i have (had) a dual boot option (1-XP Pro;2-W98)working fine until i adjusted the partition size of the second (W98SE). Now when i start, selecting W98 provides a non-system disc error. Having done this once before, reinstalling W98 over wrote the XP startup and i lost all data, settings, emails,...

I still can't install an os. I still get the message that this computer doesn't have enough extended memory. I have tried the suggestion that Bill gave but it didn't work. I would really appreciate some help on this matter.