I am trying to reinstall Windows 98 from MS-Dos. I have created a startup disk on floppy and have the original Windows 98 CD. When I reboot from the floppy and run setup.exe from the Windows CD I get the message: Windows Setup requires "largest executable programme size" to be at least 442368 to...

I am unable to run ScanDisk on my Win98 system. I keep getting the error message "ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or some other program has been writing to this drive. Quitting some running programs may enable ScanDisk to finish sooner. Do you want to continue receiving this...

Here is my sad tale. I moved my Gateway PC that was operating beautifully about two miles to a new home. I lovingly and carefully packed the computer in the original box using the styrofoam insert. When I got everything hooked up and pushed Start, I got this god- awful noise that I instantly...

Hi, all! I have two pc's, one running XP, the other windows 98. My flash disk - Speed Drive 64 MB - is running the way it shall on the XP machine, but my Windows 98 based PC can't find the thing. I have tried looking for a driver for the Speed Driver, but without luck. Is there anybody around...

In Windows 2000 and XP, one goes through the system tray and remove it by telling Windows that you're not using the drive anymore because of possible data loss. I assume it was the same for 9x, but then I noticed USB system tray icon was missing. PCMCIA system tray icon exists to stop the devices...

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!

After installing WIN98 on this really slow Pentium (r) computer, I notice it doesn't automatically shut down when selected to do so. The screen just shows the Microsoft Windows98 logo, and at the botom, it reads: "Windows is shutting down." But it never does. I have to push the power button to...

Hi, all I recently bought a JetFlash 256MB (well, I saw my colleague with one, and I liked it). However, my home computer has failed to recognise it, even after proper installation of the driver from the CD-ROM. There was no problem with my work computer, which runs the Windows 2000 system. In...

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...

Hi. I had to replace my old hard drive, which waas failing, with a new one. I copied the partition onto my new hard drive. Everything works great except when I open "My Computer" and double click the new hard drive, nothing happens. I have to right click--open for it to open up. If I double click...

A PC running Windows 98 now says Boot Disk failure. I havent been making any modifications or upgrades to it. Sometimes it boots Ok but usually crashes. I tried using a boot floppy but could not get Win98 to boot with cd-rom support. I assume I need a new hard drive...? Any help welcome

Dear sirs: I would like to copy my windows 98SE program on an external hard drive (40gb maxtor 300le) through the use of my cd rom drive my problem is that it only gives me an option for drive c. My external hard drive is drive D. I already assume it cant be used as a boot disk (USB Atachment) but...

How can I make a Boot or start disc for somone els I am running windows xp so I presume I need to downlaod somthing to save onto a floopy??? Thanks for any help......

I have recently reformatted wndws2000 back to wndws98. I have on floppy disk copies of jpegs/gifs from another wndws98. They loaded fine when pc I have now was a wndws2000. But now, I get (A)inaccessible. I go to Properties, it says (A) Drive is full. I know thats rubbish 'cause it worked before...

Will reformatting a hd overwrite and rebuild the boot sector (MBR)? thank you!! -- ************************************************************************** Stephen Lo, Vancouver, BC., CA.

I finally got win98 installed on my puter. I was given this old HP Colorado T3000 tape drive, so I decided to install it in the machine, since there was an open bay for it. I don't have the software or drivers for it, so I went to HP website and downloaded it...or I think that's what it was. The...

I'm trying to rig up a puter to give to a friend to use for e-mail. I have this old puter that I had Win 98 running on it at one time. It got a really bad infection, and I ended up formatting the HD. Since then, I haven't been able to re-install The OS from the original factory installation...

i am wanting to make a set of syustem backup floppies for and old win 98 laptop i need to know how to do that and if it can be done from the gui ior needs to be dione from the dos prompt and if frm the dos prompt the command to do that

I get the above message when booting up. The system eventually comes up. Does anyone know what might be causing this error? I can't find anything on the web.

I \'m working on win 98 and my system is down. When I try to start it up it gives me these two errore 1782 Disk Controller Failure and 3C301 Keyboard error. What does this mean and how can I get around it to boot mysystem.