Need to erase hard drive and start over

Hi & Help!!!!! I had a very hard compter crash a week ago, and now when I start up my computer it goes into Scandisk, starts scanning, and then "locks" up at 36%. Then I reboot, exit out of Scandisk, then Win 98 loads up(very very slowly) and things go good. I can shutdown neatly, but I cannot...

Need to erase hard drive and start over

I just bought an older sony vaio running win98 and it won't recognize the cd/dvd drive. It should be the original OS and hardware. I know the previous owner tried to set it up as originally set up. I've tried the 4 fixes that Ron suggested: 1. how do I put marks in the drives 2. yes it reads...

i am running WIN 98SE on a 166 PC,, ( i had it rebuilt and was running great for 2 weeks) i shut it off after every use and was using just for internet. so when i started up tonite i get this error message. "cannot start Windows. because VMM32.VXD was not found or is damaged. need to run setup...

Yesterday I tried to help a friend install an external CDRW drive (a Lite-On 5226S in a Bytecc USB 2.0 case), and a USB 2.0 PCI card (with a Via chipset). They both seemed to show correctly in the Device Manager, and the drive showed in "My Computer", but when a CD was inserted, everything...

I have a valid copy of Win 98 second ed disk and it is cracked and no longer usable for updating drives etc. Is therea source for replacement disks? Thanks, Dave

I keep getting error messages that my hard drive is full, but when I go to My Computer in WIN98SE and click on C drive properties it tells me I have 3.6 GB free. Any Ideas on fixing this. It has done this several different times. I have deleted files several times and after I do this it will...

I have updated Windows, but I am still having problems when I attempt to run scan disc and attempt to de-frag. There appears to be something "blocking" the process because it just runs and runs without ever completing the process of either completing the "scanning disc" and it will not...

I have my first experience of deleting files and needing to retrieve them, tried buying 'undelete' software to recover but only works on Windows 2000 and above, I have Windows 98 ... is there a way of recovering the lost folders and the files in them ?? Thanks for the help ...

Every time I try to defrag drive C it starts over after it reaches 3% during the "checking drive for errors" portion. This drive has not been defragged in 500 days, has over 200,000 files is 37.2 GB with 12.9 used. I had to run scandisk from DOS because it kept restarting even after following the...

I have no floppy drives anymore and I need to make a window 98 SE, Milenium boot disk, my old one wore out. I have some old systems I am working on and I use it a lot; but I never made more than 1 disk (dumb). I would make my own, but I don't have a working system from that era to make a new...

Hi all, This problem is really baffling me. I have two hard drives on the primary controller both set as master, and I select ( via a DIY power switch) which one I want to use before boot up. One has win xp, and the other has win 98se. On the secondary controller I had dvd-rom as master, and...

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Hello, The directory tree in Windows Explorer has been renamed for some reason. I think a scandisk operation caused it. I have replaced C:\My Documents by creating a new folder and downloading my files from the server.....creating a new directory tree for my documents. I want to rename the ERROR:...

hi there, I have attached a new floppy drive recently and it was working fine but now i am getting a message saying drive a is not accessible. any help please? thanks in advance

trying to install game of 2gb into c drive but not enough space.i also have a d drive with space can i put the 2 together to create space.the game as 2 disc but will only install 1

Running Wni 98 HArd Disc designation is removable disc, and internet security won't load onto it as it says it is removable. It isn't it is the hard drive . What do I do to change it so these programs recognise it as the hard drive.

I am trying to install windows 2000 and it is asking for my windows 98 disk. I can't find the disk but do have the code. Does anyone know where to get a copy or if you can?

When I go into My Computer, my D: drive which is my slave hard drive shows up as a CD icon with the MS Office puzzle logo above it. My primary hd is drive C: and that icon is the right one. My CD-Rom is drive E: and that icon is the proper one aswell. When I try to delete any files from the D:...