{N.B. - Don't SPAM my email addy please, I never, ever respond to product or business offers in SPAM so you're wasting your time.} I'm writing this in a state of intense confusion, so if it makes no sense you'll know why. I'm attempting to replace my old hard drive with a new one. I got a Seagate...

Thankd Jeff, I have contacted various places including microsoft direct, they say windows 98 is obsolete and cannot be replaced, i have to upgrade to another operating system. The laptop i have is out of date and there is no point upgrading to another OS, does anyone have a link to let...

A friend of mine has Win 98, but cannot get the CD to autorun. What does she need to do to make it run when a disk is inserted? TIA

Hi, How do I make the Ballon in the lower left appear to inform me there are files to be copies to the CD. This used to happen, but now it doesn't. How do I set this back up. Frank

Hi - My internal floppy drive failed so I replaced it with an external drive (USB) I changed my BIOS to have "ATAPI CD-ROM Drive" as my first boot selection. I have my original start-up floppy that I got with my Win.98SE and know I can make floppies from - settings-ad remove etc. If I crash my USB...

I have formatted my PC - reinstalled windows 98 from the CD and now when i go to install my sound card etc drivers from cd (won't even play a music cd) Neither of my cd drives want to know - I just get a blue screen after a few seconds. Somtimes you can see a few files on the cd - then - nothing....

I installed a copy of Microsoft Frontpage on my Windows 98 Pc 2 years ago. I have now got a new computer running windows 98 second edition. I lost the cd key for frontpage. I still have the original disk. Is the ary way of finding out the 25 character CD KEY from my old computer.

I'm installing 98se on a computer. My CD keys do not work and I cannot access MS help without a 98se PID. I tried using my XP PID but it's OEM so MS won't accept it. How can I get around this and get a valid CD key from MS?

Ich habe meinen CD KEY verloren!!! Was kann ich tun.. Kann mir da jemand weiter helfen! Danke

I had to do a full restore of my Compaq Presario computer and when I finished I could get Windows 98 to start. It called for a Product ID # which I had on my Certficate of Authorization. But when I enter that ID number It does not accept it as not valid. I put the ID3 number in correctly, but it...

I have to reformat the hd on my laptop but cant find the cd key. I am running windows 98 on this computer. I have a desktop also running 98 and I have that cd key. Will that key work on my laptop as well. Please remove the "removethis" from the email when responding. Done for spamming...

hello all, i have a problem that i can not figure out. i am currently in the process of creating a CD network bootdisk from a floppy network boot disk. everything works fine (boots, connects to network and reimages client machines) but during this process it pops up an error saying "General...

My computer is bringing up and error and the cd rom drive isnt working, the error reads, shellexe\target.dill cd play notify. how can i fix this problem is it in the windows or is it a faulty cd rom drive.

CD player in my Win98SE-based computer stopped to play CD music. I checked the integrity of CD-Rom (Creative 48X) and the sound card (Sound Blaster) and found them OK. In fact Windows plays sounds (like welcome or ding) and CD-Rom device works fine as disk drive. When I get the CD Player up with a...

I am running on Windows98 second edition. I am looking for the entry to place in Edit File Type/New Action {double click My computer/then view/folder options/file types/audio cd/ then edit; new}. Action would be PLAY, For Application just putting the ..EXE file doesn't work. It must need something...

CD ROM drive failed during WIN98 install. Replaced CD drive and tried again. Ran FDISK again and I must have messed up somewhere. Now when I try to install 98 I get a message like this: Windows 98 has detected that drive C: does not contain a valid fat or fat32 partition. There are several...

Suddenly my CD RW doesn't show up in the device manager. It only list a CD Rom not the brand and type that I have installed. I have a driver floppy that came with the drive but I can't get it to install. How do I get it to install? Whenever I try to use my CD drives I have to switch from one to...

Hello! Win98 SE does not seem to read CD-ROMs anymore. It can eject and load CD's but doesn't seem to be able to read anything. Can this be a matter of updating the driver? I use a LITEON LTD 163D DVD/CD-ROM drive. Also, when trying to run Scandisk from Windows, I get a message telling me "out of...

just a quick one just formatted one of the kids old pcs it had died and have no cdrom support to reinstall win 98, how do i create the floppy disks to give support from the cdrom, have my laptop to pull data off the win 98 disk to create the disks, thanks in advance. phil h

I had to reinstall Windows 98 on my daughter's computer using the disc that came with her Packard Bell machine. Everything was going well until the window asked for a certificate of authenticity. The disc I was using was from PB and had no numbers on it and any codes from the computer purchase are...