I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the hard drive has to be...

When I click on any .txt file in Explorer I get error message: C:\My Cannot find this file Please verify that the correct path and filename are given The C:\My is supposed to be C:\My Documents\File folder\file.txt. If this is the problem how can I change the C:\My to C:\My Documents? In...

I'm trying to re-format my w98 hard drive by right clicking the C: drive and clicking format. Once I do this I get the following message: Windows cannot format this drive because it contains files in use by windows. It doesn't tell me which files or how to fix this. If anyone knows a solution...

I've tried everything I know to get Disk scan to run properly and then run defragment and I'm unable to get niether to scan or defrag. Can anyone help me? I'm at the end of my road.

Last night I downloaded the Windows 98 updates and installed them this morning. Now I can't see my CD-rom drives. The computer acts like they aren't there. I tried detecting plug and play devices, but to no avail. Does anybody have a fix for this problem?

Hi all, would greatly appreciate some help here. I've just installed a copy of ekonnect piccolo that I downloaded and now windows can no longer see my hard drive or my CD ROM drive. It says that the peripheral drive CD ROM doesn't function because thw file on which it depends: Controller SCSI...

When I insert a CD program in my CD-ROM, my computer doesn't recognize that it's there. I went to Device Manager and there is an yellow circle with an exclamation point next to where it says: "Mitsumi CD-ROM controller with double speed drive". When I click it it say: "not present, not working...

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...

CD drive does not show in / start / settings / control panel / system / device manager. Restarted in safe mode and cd drive showed in / start / settings / control panel / system / device manager. Removed device and rebooted. No files/drivers were installed. Startup tested all drives and could not...

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,...

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...

I'm trying to rinstall Windows 98SE. I have created a boot disk, but when I restart the machine with it in and use cd c: from the a prompt, it momentarily goes to C: then almost instantly revers back to the a: prompt. Nothing I've tried will allow me to change to the C drive to begin...

Following up some excellent advice I received to a msg I posted on the W98-Display group, I downloaded the AWDFLASH.EXE program to flash the BIOS on a PC. I copied the AWDFLASH.EXE file and the .bin file to a floppy to do the flashing, but now find I cannot delete the original AWDFLASH.EXE file...

My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D.. 29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is very little free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan...

I recently copied some files from my old Win98 PC onto a my new WinXP PC, but I cannot open any of the files (doc/jpg/txt etc.) it just says 'Invalid file format' or 'file not recognized'. I've tried copying via floppy, mem stick, and putting the drive as a slave in my new pc, but nothing works!...

Hi I am putting an old i430vx system together,( I know, I must be crazy). Everything has gone ok windows 98 has loaded, no conflicts, no yellow flags. However I get an error message when trying to copy files from the floppy A. It obviously opens to show the files, but when I try to copy the file...

I have a FAT32 drive on Windows 98 but need to know how to repartition it. When I format it, it says files are in use by Windows. What do I need to do???

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...

I am trying to install win 98 on a 95 laptop, formatted the hard drive etc but how can I install 98 if I have to switch drives (completely take out floppy to put in 98SE disk. is there a solution? a friend told me there is a way to copy the floppy to the hd then start but how? help greatly...

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