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...

Hello: I am new to this forum so please be easy with me. I need a mass storage device driver for (Windows 98 SE). I have several USB 16 Mg. flash drives and I want to use them on my Computer which has Windows 98 SE. Since my version of Win does not support these drives I am asking if anyone has...

I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer" version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader at startup? I know that when I install...

I've been using an old desktop with 98SE on it to store all the mp3's I've been ripping from all my music cd's and I'm running out of space. I'm wondering if there's a size limit to an external HD (connected either through USB or Firewire). I'm hoping to get a 160gig HD. FYI: I have access to...

Windows98 doesn't reconize my cd rom drive. When I bootup it appears in BIOS but is not reconized in windows.

I have an old (5yrs or so) Quantex PC, which has slowed right down. I have formatted the hard disk, and tried to re-install Windows 98 2nd edition. It has asked for the registration key, but i can't find this. the original cd came with the pc - i have the back cover of the jewel case, but no...

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 ...

Hi I am not that swift when It comes to all this computer stuff, but I would like to take an old gateway PC I have and re-format the dard drive to re- install the win 98 first eddition CD that I got with the computer many moons ago. Can I somehow just take everything that is on this hard drive off...

This is a kind of unusual problem. My brother in law has a laptop he purchased used with Windows 98 already installed. He did not get a disk. The other day he wanted to use some new program and was told to insert his Windows 98 disk -- he couldn't, of course. When he was over here he asked me if...

Greetings Everyone, I have an old 1980 IBM with a HDD of information in DOS 4.0 version. I would like to add this HDD to another machine that has win98 se on it. Can I do this? I am pretty sure I can. I would just have to use the command line from win98 to retrieve any data on it....

I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer" version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader at startup? I know that when I install...

When trying to burn a CD, I get the message "check that sufficient hard disk memory is secured" and it ejects the blank CD. How can I fix this?

Anyone know of a good "how to" manual for restoring an old Windows 98 machine? I inherited a '98 and would like to learn something and get this thing humming again. Right now it doesn't load up consistently. Sort of starting from scratch. Thanks

Yep, that's right. I've added up every single file and folder on this 80gb drive (effectively 74.5gb), and it comes to 28.9gb. I checked that total many times. And Windows (and Norton) tells me I've used 73.8gb and have only 721mb free. So Windows won't let me transfer any data to this drive--I...

i have problem using the floopy drive so i want the start up disk to be on the cd can i do it . if i can can i know how to go about with it thank you

I bought my HP 4535 in 1999 and now cant find my WIN 98 CD- ROM and all my drivers etc...how can I get a replacement Win98 CD-ROM?

Dear Sirs, I am replacing a hard drive. I have the windows 98SE CD. I however, lost my product key. My old HD still runs. Is there a way to find my product key on the old HD? Thanks, Jason __________________________________________________________________ Schröder ICQ#: 136091342 Current ICQ...

Hi all, would greatly appreciate some help here. I've just installed a copy of ekonnect piccolo that I downloaded and now windows can no longer see my hard drive or my CD ROM drive. It says that the peripheral drive CD ROM doesn't function because thw file on which it depends: Controller SCSI...

Windows 98 is giving me disk full errors when the hard disk shouldn't be full. There should be 2.5GB of space. There was, until recently. The contents of the directories add up to 6.8GB and the disc's capacity is 9.3GB (in one big partition). It is also displaying the file sizes of some large...

I recently decided to upgrade from win98se to xp pro. Some of the software was incompatible with xp so I decided not to upgrade. Now I can't run Scandisk or Disk Defragmenter at all. I've tried everything I can think of (including disabling Norton Antivirus and Firewall), but scandisk runs 10 times...