I reformated my main physical Hardrive, and reinstalled win98, the problem is however, that "My Computer" does not show anything for my 2nd physical harddrive, that was present before the formating and reinstallation. The 2nd HD shows up in my BIOS, how can I fix this!!? Thanx in advance

Need a copy of smartvsd.vxd referenced in KBA 238811 win98_54.cab file

I have disabled the screen saver and the antivirus software. When defragging my Windows 98 machine it gets to 1% and then endlessly sticks in a cycle of 0%-1%. Help.

I am working on a problem for a friend from church and have never encountered a problem such as the one about to be described. Sometimes when the system is booting a "Disk write error. Unable to write to the disk drive c:" message is displayed. The error dialog box provides an OK button which...

I had installed Windows 98 Second Edition on my laptop some time ago. I hafe misplaced the orignal CD. How can I get a CD?

1. Can the floppy disk drive be dropped from a PC and CD drive be used instead? 2. How do you make a startup CD disk? 3. Is the startup disk simply a DOS startup or is it OS sensitive?

I deleted a game and associated unrecognized programs off my computer thru the add remove folder and when I tried to restart I get the message"Explorer has performed illegal operation", the details "Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0197:00401f31". Plus I can only...

I can't get win98 to start even in safe mode because it says "Invalid page fault at explorer.exe ..." At the C:\windows directory I see an explorer.exe file with 180,224 bytes. When I try to edit the file or rename it the computer says "File not found". I can find every other file that I see in...

My customer is starting to upgrade their pc's to Windows Vista. In the past, under XP and using Excel, they provided a tab-delimited file as input to my inkjet system that uses Windows 98. No problem! Now under Vista, using Excel (2007) I can read the file, but it doesn't recognize it as...

Now that I have all the files I need off the old computer that I've mentioned before, I'd like to reformat the hard drive and install Windows 98SE (I already have the install CD). I might also want to partition it and install 98SE and something else. The only thing I'm worried about is whether or...

does any one have a cd that will make a keyboard that is programed for XP work on windows 98

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...

Ive tried to reformat my hard disk i used the fdisk and when done i was got a message to restart pc then format the disc when the pc restarts i get a message when i type reformat that "required parameter is missing...now what

Hi, I would like to perform a low level format on a Western Digital 3.2G HDD. Note: "Format", that comes with the OS, only does high level formatting. Do you know where I can get a generic low level HDD formatter program? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card...

Hi "Lil' Dave", HDDs have many vulnerabilities, therefore I would not trust them for keeping important files or OS backup. The heads are only microns from the surface of the spinning platters. A sudden jolt could cause the head to bounce off the platter surface, or if "writing", overwrite data...

Hi, The largest HDD I have is 10G, with over 6G free space. I already had to replace a couple HDDs. Anything I want to save, has been "burned" on CD Roms. If your computer is not used for collecting videos or music, or used as a server, why in the world would anyone want a 20G or larger...

Hi, One of my HDDs (Quantum 1.2GB) has a bad controller. Is it possible to use a controller from another Quantum HDD so I can recover data? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active key logger (spyware) in your PC.

Hi, I removed a 750 meg hdd from a computer, which was partitioned into two logical drives (520 meg and 230 meg). I installed it in a 1988 Compaq 386 computer with Dos 6.22. Bios can not "see" above 520 meg, therefore I can not access the 230 meg partition. Is it possible to use an "overlay" ...

Hi, I have a Compaq Contura 410C laptop (bought around 1997) which I do not use a lot. When I first power it up (external power, not battery), the floppy disk drive works just fine for about 10 minutes. Afterwards, I have trouble reading floppy disks (drive not ready type of problem). I...