I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of...

Hallo, google says: Max. IDE-Harddisk is 137 GB is there someone, who knows how big an SCSI Disk under Win98 could be? sorry, but my english is not perfect. Werner

My son is tying to fix his Mother in laws computer and he asked me about the following error message: Error #1 before boot - 1720-SMART HARD DRIVE detects imminent failure. Your hard disk drive is detecting an imminent failure. To ensure no data loss, backup contents and replace this hard disk. ...

the above message comes up randomly while i use the internet and then causes the system to crash and i have to manually restart my computer losing anyunsaved work, can anyone help

I'm trying to defrag a drive but can't. When defrag checks the drive at 4 % it comes back with error message that the drive had errors. I've run scandisk and it reported no errors. I've deleted the applog folder. I've run disk clean-up. The only thing running is explorer and systray. Still...

Hi, i have installed windows 98 on a presario 1710sb laptop 200mmx 96 meg. I used a startup up floppy and reformatted the hard drive did a fresh install of 98. The cd works from the dos setup command but when windows first runs the cdrom does not show up and a lot of the drivers that require the...

How do I set my computer to auto play a program CD? Thank-you

I have this old computer to which I just restored Windows 98 from the HP restore disks. I think it is NOT Second Edition, since it says Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.1998. I need Win 98 Second Edition so my Netgear MA111 wireless adapter will work. How can I download Second Edition on my XP machine...

I have this old HP Pavilion 6470z. I put Red Hat on it, and now I want to use the HP restore disks to put Windows 98 back on it. I tried to run the restore disks. The first one seemed to run OK, copying a lot of files. Then the PC rebooted, and it booted to the Red Hat. (It is of course a...

I have Windows 98 SE and it only see my Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ (cd-RW) made March 2003 as a regular CDROM. I have searched all over for a driver so this will work, any suggestions

How do I get a driver so I can Install W98SE on a system with Serial ATA drive. SO far I get errors on Primary and Secondary IDE Controller. Looks like I need a driver.

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 am trying to make a second bootable disk. I XCOPIED all the data from the first to the second. I switched positions of hard drives and tried to boot. However, I keep getting the message:"Type the name of the Command Interpreter...". I used the bootable floppy and tried copying the sys files using...

My hard drive on my laptop is no good. I can't get to the drive. I bought a new drive but don't know what to do from here. I was using Win98 SE but would like to install Win 2000. Can anyone help me?

Hi, I am allowing inside IFSFN_OPEN. but I want to deny file operation inside IFSFN_READ.Is it possible to set error condition in Iorequ structure and return file deny from inside IFSFN_READ? Plz help me out I am writing file system filter driver. regds vinay

Hello, can anyone help me? Here is the message I am getting when I try to use the A drive: you do not have access to the folder 'A:\. See your administrator for access to this folder Help!

I had to download software for a digital camera, but it killed almost ALL my image settings and switched it to that of the camera (which was really annoying because the icons were ALL THE SAME), so I uninstalled the camera to see if the defaults would come back, and they didn't, now I just can't...

I had a working cdrw in one machine and installed it in another. Windows does not recognize the burner as a burner but as a cdrom. I have a 2nd cdrom and it works fine. Now my cdrw is not listed under my computer at all. What can I do to resolve my problem?

Dear MS Customer Support! I would like to convince You to enhance support for esdi_506.pdr IDE driver, becouse all current Intel based PC systems (chipset 865/875/915/925 with 48Bit BIOS suport) has controllers which use esdi_506.pdr driver to handle IDE drives. As all we know there is no support...

Hello !!! I am using win98 FAT 32 file system, a mont before i have found a file lock utality Compaq's Presario Vault Ver.1.00 to lock phsically the files, it worked very cool. But unfortunatly i have had to format my partition c:, all was okay but the locked file could not recovered since then...