Please offer advice about Microsoft Virtual Drivers -- netbeui.vxd and wsipx.vxd. These files are installed on my computer. I am using Windows 98SE. It seems as if somebody in the building is using NetBIOS to try to hack my computer system. Fortunately, I have EZ Amor Security Suite. The...

Because of an old DOS program having a Parallel port dongle, which I cannot get to work with Windows XP, I installed Windows 98 2nd Edition on an HP laptop which came with Windows XP Home I reformated the harddrive and installed Windows 98 2nd Edition, but as soon as the first boot completes, after...

I have the windows 98se edition and it is missing a damn msdos.sys file my computer is in safe mode because of this and have not been able to find on the net anywhere to download this file, a friend even sent me this file and I cant open it, Can someone please help me get this file and be able to...

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...

I can use Explorer to search for files, but when I try to search for text strings within files, nothing is returned even though I know the string is in some of the files and I am searching the directory where the files reside. I have even tried to enter a specific file name with a string that I...

I've a Chembook 2020 laptop running W98SE (fully up to date) from one internal 40Gb disk as C: drive. Recently, It was docked in a base unit carrying a CDROM drive and a 128Mb USB JumpDrive "disk". I then hibernated it (BIOS- style save-to-disk). When I powered it up later, I had undocked it. I...

The 'Recycle Bin' properties allow one to 'Configure Drives Independently'. When I apply this (radio button) setting,it flops back to the 'Use one Setting For All Drives' at the next power down-up cycle. I've deleted all 8 'recycled' files on the partitioned hard disk drives and let Win98SE...

Please send an Email with a Win (* startup dsisk as an attachment.(( anyone, lpeasew.

someone please help me to get rid of this "about:blank" which will appear everytime when i lauch my IE. thanks

I am reformatting hard drive for a friend on an HP system running Windows 98. When I put in the system recovery disk I get an error: "Can't ready read drive M." M being the CD-ROM drive. The drive appears to be functioning ok. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks. Ryan

Hi, I am having one question, How the hard disk will come to know the Next Writable Address. When we issue write/read command, we specify data and number of bytes to read/write. But how the hard disk will come to know the address, it has to write to /read from specify sector. Who will...

My Win98 will not boot. I get a message in DOS: "While initilalizing device WDCTRL the Micro House(tm) 32 bit disk for Microsoft(MH32bit.386) has detected a hardisk with a geometry thta cannot be supported." What does it mean? How can I solve this? Help please! Ted

You haven't kept your CDs in good conditions. If you put a quite new CD in the drive, you'll see that the drive won't have any problems with it. Otherwise the drive might be faulty. You can also use a lens cleaner to clean the lens. Javad "michael and sharon" wrote in...

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...

When turning on computer it asks for boot disk, when i try an install without formatting i get disk errors. and at the dos prompt i can only read my A: drive. trying to read or format my C: gives a bad command. is there any help out there. Thanks

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 an SATA 160G HD formatted in WinXP as FAT32. But everytime I boot up Windows 98 SE it hangs. I wonder if it is the size of the HD or the SATA interface that has a problem with Win98. Please help. Thanks

i get this message "while initializing this device UK" what does that mean ond how can i fix it? please, respond to cathyhuney at yahoo.com thanks

Win 98 drvspace Compressed-drives running in Compatibility mode. I am using Win 98 second edition. I cannot install any new Applications Because after a reboot, right-click MyComputer Properties Performance: all my drvspace/dblspace drives are running in "Compatibility Mode". So,...

98SE - 4gig HD - 2gig used. Ran scan disk utility (full scan). Defrag starts normally and runs to 100%, but the 100% comes before it has finished the disk. Ran it again and the disk appears to have not been defragged completely - including the beginning. It runs to 100% and stops in the same place...