The other night I had to use my Windows 98 startup disk to get the computer running again. After I did this the A drive would not read any more diskettes! Instead Windows then would ask to format the A diskette. I haven't been able to use my A drive ever since. Does anyone know how to fix this...

Below is the copy of the response to this problem from a month ago! I've tried both solutions but still no success. This is an all usb pc...does that help? Any further assistance would be great. Tks. And, should Noel's correct solution not work for some reason, try a work around by assigning a...

tried to upgrade from win 98 to windows pro but after running the 1st step of setup, I found out that I didnt have enough space on my laptop. nOW, evertime I turn on my computer, there always an option wether I want to boot win 98 or continue setup of win pro. How can I get back to my previous...

on a laptop that can only have either the floppy or cd drive in at once? and no setting in the bios for boot from cd?

A few years ago I bought a used IBM Thinkpad. It has W98 and several other programs, like Office, that I want to retain. I want to upgrade to W98se so that I can use a wireless card with the system. I recently bought a W98se disc labelled 'for distribu- tion with a new PC only". What, if any, is...

the cd/dvd-burner fails to burn at full speed... If I try to burn a cd faster than 16X, then the burner don't get data in time. The buffer in Nero empties and refills all the time if the buffer underrun handling is on (default). If I uncheck it the burnin will fail after 18% or so when I burn in...

(cross-post added to Win98 Setup) "12013ert via WindowsKB.com" u50500@uwe wrote in message news:9386a2f31f636@uwe... my daughter has recently passed on her old, but reletively lightly used computer to me,it runs windows 98. i have been informed by BT technical services that i need to run...

I'm reinstallin w/98SE on an old IBM Aptiva. The drivers don't seem to be on 98SE disk. The machine was running 98SE decently, so somewhere there's a driver that works. The machine is an IBM Aptiva model 2156 HWinfo says it's got a SiS 86c201 VGA Chipset on themotherboard. Can someone tell me...

I have an Atto uld2 pci card and am trying to find a windows driver for it if there is one.

I got a lot of problems while using xp so i decided i should switch back to win98 se. i have 2 drives and i want to keep the things in D:\. but for some reason, when i get to the options 1)Start Win98 setup from cd 2)Start computer with cd-rom support 3)start computer without cd-rom support (i...

I had to do a system restore, and when prompted to enter the product key, I keep getting the "invalid product key" error. I only have 20 characters in my product key, but the computer is asking for 25. Is there a work-around? Thanks

I am trying to install windows 98 on Intel 915 chipset board but after first restart I got blue screen /fatal error . Can anyone help me

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Dell Optiplex GX520, to multi-boot Windows98, 2000, XP pro. I found the knowledgebase entry on microsoft's website, for setting this up. I made 3 partitions. First one is FAT32, and the other two are NTFS. When I try to install the first OS(Win98) on the first partition,...

Dear Group, I want to format a thosiba laptop, Actuly i bought it as second hand and i dont have drivers for Display, Sound, Modem.(the modem is not wrking now it asks for driver) is there any method to copy the drivers / settings from the exsiting installation ? which i can use after i formate...

I have an HP desktop system for many years and ISTR it has a Pentium 400 processor with a 40GB HDD and I run Win98 on it. The configuration I've got has run for years. But recently something seems to have happened. Now I find that when I boot, the BIOS startup seems ok and then my...

The last thing I remember doing was loading a cumulative patch for IE 6, SP 1. When the download/install was nearly complete, I checked IE 6 and saw that I already had this patch. I figured I'd let it complete and just overwrite what I had. When I rebooted, Windows wouldn't load. I saw the...

i want to upgrade my system to windows98 second edition, when i tried to setup win98 se on my system it displayed error message that can not upgrade to win98se from win98. please suggest some tips, because i don't want to re-setup all my programs.

i have a 133 pentium w/ 78 mb ram and a 10 gig harddrive. i upgraded by uninstalling my windows 95 and reformated my harddrive and installed my windows 98 when i but in my license number i recieved a error message that it was not right so i called 1800 ru legit they gave me a new license #. now...

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hi, i am having alot of trouble upgrading from win 98... i tried it a few times, the last time was last night. i got a dialog box that said there was a missing file and it gave 3 choices, retry...skip... exit, i retried every time i got that box. there were so many files i didn't write them down...