I have just installed win-98se on my Asrock test platform, on a new 500 gb hard drive. I used the switch that prevents ACPI installation, and after all is said and done I have no yellow (!) showing up in device manager. On-board lan and USB are functional. I haven't tried sounds...

I sincerely appreciate the help I've received regarding how to remove malware, but at this point it would be easier to simply uninstall IE6 and reinstall it. Is there anybody out there who knows how to do this? The only options offered under add/remove programs for IE6 are to either repair the...

2 HardDrives – single partition on each – I think they are both FAT32 Neither drive has any compression software Drive C has the OS, swapfile, and tempfolder Drive D is WD 30gb Win98 SE I uninstalled a game on drive D that was taking up about 2gb. Uninstall reported it could not remove the root...

Burning a cd with content (a folder with video files) in it from a new vista computer, I take it to my old win 98 computer and the content of the cd does not show up! The old computer does, however, shows only that there is 455mb taken up on the cd. Also, I know that the content is on the cd...

Deleted files on Floppy & Hard disk -remnants ? ================================= 1) When you delete a file from a Floppy disk -what information is left about that file ?? I know that the data may remain for the file, unless it is wiped or overwritten ? What about the Fille name, does...

Alan wrote: To try and resolve repeated random problems, I have been advised by the hard drive manufacturer to replace the Primary IDE cable. The existing cable supplied with the motherboard is a 80-conductor ribbon cable for UltraDMA/66/100/133 so technically I do believe I have the ...

MY HD is damaged and I need to replace it in a Win 98 machine. Does anyone know what hard drives I can buy that would replace this hard drive and be compatible with what is in the computer already? I can go for more than the original 8.4G , but compatibility is the question. I'll stay small if...

Hi, New to this so please excuse me if I ask silly questions. I just installed a second hard drive into my Gtaeway computer which is running 98SE. It is a Samsung 80Gig drive. I did the partitioning and format and I only got 32 gig. I was told that the BIOS may not support the 80Gig drive so I...

I need a boot floppy for a computer in which I just replaced the hard drive. I tried booting up with generic boot floppies downloaded from the internet but they didn't work. If anyone has a boot floppy specifically for the HP Pavilion, I would be happy to pay for same. Please advise.

I have a floppy disk that cannot be read and I want to destroy the disk. I have pulled apart the case and cut up the film part of the disk. Is the data stored on the film only? I was told not to touch the round disk in the middle when handling the disk. Is information stored there as well?

The task schduler tried to start defrag last night. I think it tried all night but didn't run fully but the hard drive was clicking furiously all night and this morning. Now when you reboot, it runs scan disk and boots to the start screen (seemingly normal) but then the computer locks up after it...

Thanks Jeff, you are probably correct, it looks like I have got only 1 GB Hard disk space. What do you suggest that I do? Thanks in anticipation Peter -----Original Message----- Right-click the drive icon in My Computer and look at Properties - what is the total partition size? If you only...

I have a PC with 98SE and two hard disks. One is FAT16 the other FAT32. I tried a disk diagnostic program yesterday, and it said the FAT32 disk was scoring almost 3 times as many bytes/second as the FAT16! Now I was told there is little difference in performance if you change a disk from FAT16 to...

I can't find my windows 98 disc and i connected an etherton nick card and it is asking me to re down load this. Is there any way I can down load windows 98 from the internet

Hi, I would like to perform a low level format on a Western Digital 3.2G HDD. Note: "Format", that comes with the OS, only does high level formatting. Do you know where I can get a generic low level HDD formatter program? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card...

Hi, Mystery problem with Compaq Presario 1060 Laptop. Note: I service TVs, etc., rarely service a computer. PROBLEM (Hard Disk Drive is fine): On the same day (no storm and it wasn't dropped) this laptop started to have read/write problems with the floppy disk drive

i am running WIN 98SE on a 166 PC,, ( i had it rebuilt and was running great for 2 weeks) i shut it off after every use and was using just for internet. so when i started up tonite i get this error message. "cannot start Windows. because VMM32.VXD was not found or is damaged. need to run setup...

i just installed windows 98 se and it gets to the splash screen and just stays forever---I need help troubleshooting this please -- Thank you!

Cox and Telus will not act unless they have a police file number so you may as well flood microsoft.public.win98.disks.general my home Usenet group. have a nice day.Me I am nearing about TrueCrype -- Don't even try to pretend e.g. while you're taxing underneath a electoral birth. --...

When I am surfing on the internet, a few clicking sounds come from my harddrive, and my PC freezes for a short period. Then the blue screen of death appears, saying: Disk Write Error Unable to write to disk in Drive C: Data or file may be lost. Press any key to continue. After I press a key,...