A while ago I backed up my Win98SE computer's hard drive to a virtual machine virutal disk drive. When I tried to copy everything back, the dates on the various folders were not preserved no matter what I did. Nor were the file dates preserved. Now that Windows is up and running after swapping...

Can it be done as in W2k/VP and how?

I just recieved a 750gb Maxtor OneTouch 4Plus hard drive for Xmas. However, all the specs I can find say it only works with Windows XP. I need a detatchable external drive that can also be hooked up to a Windows 98SE computer and a Windows 98 first edition laptop. The 98Se computer is far more...

I set up my computer with a partitioned hard drive, with win 98 on one partition and xp on the other. For some reason 98 became corrupt so I decided to re-format that partition and re-install 98, having done that I now cannot access the partition with xp on it and 98 also wont install because when...

As the subject line says whats the biggest drive it can support. My hard drive died and the shop put an 80GB in it and i bought Win XP home edition but too many of my old programs wont run properly with it so want to go back to Win 98 where they all work fine. However it only is recognising 10GB...

When ever you add a CD to a system always make sure the drive letter is far down the alphabet. "fcf" wrote in message ... Windows 98 1997 model Dell XPS, 400 MHz PII Added second HDD Windows made it drive D:,...

My daughter has my older computer with Windows 98 (upgraded from a 95) and she removed Norton Antivirus program to install another brand of antivirus. After doing this the two disc drives e and f were wiped out completely. It only boots in Safe Mode and since the disc drives are gone it is hard...

I have been trying to help a friend who has just bought a Dell computer with (apparently) one IDE header which support 80 wires, while the other supports only the standard 40 wires. He has bought another identical ATA 133 disk to complement the one that came with the computer. He found that one...

Hi guys I would like to start off by saying you guys have been so helpful and I have learned alot but I will post again what I would like to do and if I can get a walk through I would appreciate it. I have an old computer with a small hard drive so I want to replace with a bigger one but the...

i formatted my friends pc and now i need to reinstall w98 for him but i dont have the boot disks. windows was already messed up before format to do those boot disks. now when i restart it it gives me invalid disk which i assume i need the boot disk, anybody knows where to get them? or any other...

I am having two problems with my CD drive, 1) many times it does not eject, I have to restart my computer to be able to eject. 2) I pasted videos on cd and it worked fine but I started my computer and put in the cd there is nothing on my cd this happened already twice. Solomon

Having problems loading Windows 98. Windows 98 starts to load then switches off. Prior to this problem I did a Quick Claen of the my computer using Mcafee QC. Not sure if this is coincidence. Also I do not have a Windows 98 disk since my PC came with Windows loaded. So I guess I can't do a...

My system is running Windows 98 SE. After the PM7 window opens, I get the error (for disk #1): Error 116 - Partition table Begin and Start inconsistent I'd like to backup partitions on disk #1 but PM7 won't allow it so long as it thinks there are errors. Despite the error from PM7, my system...

Curt, Sorry for my late reply - tried scanreg /restore and got bad command or file name message. Any other suggestions? M Hi Martin, You might try restoring a good copy of your Registry, *prior* to running QuickClean.

I had a win 98 computer and wanted to wipe it clean, but my a drive isn't functioning so using a start up disk wasn't an option. I inserted my win 98 cd and did the fdisk which asked me what to do with partitions. I chose to delete the partition with tons of info on it and rebooted. Then I...

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

I had to reformat my harddrive and reload win 98. When the load was somplete and it rebooted a message comes up saying Windows protection arror. You need to restart your computer. "C:\system\vmm32.vxd: Missing/unable to load" What is wrong with the computer.

Hello, I am trying to help a friend with a major hard drive problem. We are attempting to repair damage done by the Klez h. virus on the computer. I have tried to load Norton to help us with the issue, but I keep getting the message that there is not enough space on the disk to load it. The disk...

Hi, some kind soul pls assist the following problem:- when I access Fdisk to do partition,I am unable to delete the Logical & Extended drive. I leave as remain 30% as a Extended drive.I then created a Primary drive and formatted. Now the problem is my Extended drive has no

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