my cd drive will not load the recovery disk, but will load other cd's when i put it in, it starts to load, i can hear it, but then it stops and nothing happens, i use my cd cleaner, i know my disk is good cause i just used it 2 months ago and i put it back in its case and into my file cabnit. any...

A friend is having trouble with floppy disks which the system will not fill. They take about 800 kB and then reject any further files. He has lots of small text files and I wondered if there is an upper limit to the number of files W. will store on a floppy. Can anyone suggest what might be...

I keep getting a windows doesn't have enough memory error when I try to defrag or run scandisk for my D drive. It will scan my drive, C and E but not D. Not even in DOS, I typed A:\scandisk D: and it says it's the wrong command. I need to defrag and run scandisk on that drive soon and I don't...

Hello, I am going to be reinstalling microsoft 98 on a friends computer the only thing is I have a genuine cd, BUT, I have lost the cd key for it. Does anyone know if i could do it without or how to get hold of one. ???? All help REALLY appreciated Thanks Ryan

Hi, My cousin asked me to repair his Compaq Presario 1060 laptop (Windows 95) which developed two problems at the same time!!! One of the two problems has to do with the floppy disk drive which suddenly has trouble reading floppy disks. The other problem (started around the same time...

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:52:18 -0500, Igor put finger to keyboard and composed: It's my understanding that Windows 98 has limitations as to the size of hard drive that it will recognize. I believe that limit is 120 GB. Now, does that mean that if I put in a hard drive that...

Okay I am having some problems with my new promise ultra 133 TX2 pci controller card. When my machine boots up (its a ibm compatible computer with an asus cusl2 motherboard), eveything is correctly recognized (my c to g drives along with my cd rom drive and my dvd drive). I added a third...

A couple of spyware searches indicated that the follow file with a font extension is a severe threat. It shows the location as C/windows/fonts/acrsecI.fon. I have been unable to locate such a file so I can remove it. None of the fonts show up with this name. I haven't registered the spyware...

A coworker was messing around with his laptop yesterday (he thinks BIOS settings) and now can no longer boot WIN98 from his hard drive. When we use an external floppy (IBM ThinkPad 310ED - because there isn't one on board) and a WIN98 boot floppy, we can't get to drive C. I can get to D - CDROM,...

We have a Win 98 desktop machine with a Antec card reader with proprietary pci card in a slot. We need to read ATA Flash cards and were able to several months back. We can't figure out what got deleted or changed to make it cease to work. The drive still beeps when we put in a card. Card services...

I need help fixing a computer. I try to open start menu and my computer icon and the computer freezes. I push ctrl+alt+delete and it show that Explorer is not responding. What is wrong and how do I fix? Thanks

I have a directory with over 600 folders. I want to copy about 200 of these folders with names that all start with the letter K(incl all subfolders and files) I tried xcopy c:\directoy\K???? d:\directory /s/v but it didn't work. Is their a syntax that will work or is there another way to do a batch...

Hi, Sorry I forgot to mention that I thoroughly cleaned both drives and I do not smoke (very bad for your health). INTERESTING FLOPPY DRIVE TEST: I used a program called "Sector Access" and read a string (100) of sectors starting at sector 00000000 (boot sector) into a file called...

System: IBM Thinkpad 600, running WIN 98SE. Problem: When the system is running with no applications and virus scanner turned of core kernel processor usage varies from 65% to 70%. Possible cause: Looking in the device manager, three disk controllers are listed. The Intel 82371 AB/EB PCI...

How do I free up space so that I can use my cd drive. There s so much on my c drive that it is making my sytem unstable. I have drives d e f g available. This is a 10 gig hard drive that was formatted before I got it. I just don't know what to do. Please help. Thank you

I had to replace my defective hard drive. I installed one that had been wiped clean by the previous user. As a result, when I attempted to use my HP Recovery CD, it produced the C: prompt but indicated that it was unable to detect a hard drive. I assume that means that the hard drive has to be...

Hi,can somebody tell me how to format a used hard disk. Thanks !

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Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I get "operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to...

Sorry both drives are win 98se Paul