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 a Samsung SV0844A 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...

Over the years, a number of people have posted messages asking for solutions to the problem that sometimes turns up in Windows 98 SE, in which Defrag or Scandisk won't run on certain drives; an error message appears saying that the program can't run because "a disk utility has locked the drive"....

I have an external drive attached via usb. It has two partitions. However the partitions appear twice in the "my computer" screen. My regular disc has partitions c-j. There then follows: k,l,m,n. K and M are the same and L and N are the same, with the same files. Partition Magic only...

On startup I get this message...."oleaut32.dll file cannot start. Check the file to determine the problem". Can you help please. -- Using Windows 98SE, IE6 and PC-cillin Internet Security, Sybot and Ad-Aware.

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We put a new hard drive in our pc and now when we try to load windows it says not cd rom drive found. i have somehow lost the boot disk for the cd rom.can i download that driver somewhere. it ia gateway 8400b. thanks

Hi, Note: I cleaned both drives, floppy & CD, (Compaq Presario 1060 laptop yr 1997) but problem remains. I used a "lab" type of power supply as substitute for latpop's external power supply. Also, see original post below. More tests made since my original post exposed something very...

My hard disk is partitioned. I keep on running out of space on Drive C, but have masses of space on D. I have all my data on Drive D, and install applications there whenever I am offered the option to do so. Can I just move remaining applications from C to D, or must I uninstall and reinstall...

Same as above, What is the max hard drive size Windows 98SE supports, based solely on the operating system. Ryan

When installing Windows 98 SE using the original CD ROM, I get his message: Not enough space on D To install Win 98 on drive C, you need 21 mb of space on D. D has only 1.4 mb To take care of this problem, please remove some files from hard drive. Hard drive is drive C. How would that free...

hi .. had a power failure a few weeks back .. had a 120 gig ide drive , which was partitioned into to equal halves , one for the operating system , this one is ok , fat32 file system ... and the other for data,, which winxp keeps want to format , was also fat32 ,, but is being reported as raw or...

I have a FAT32 drive on Windows 98 but need to know how to repartition it. When I format it, it says files are in use by Windows. What do I need to do???

My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D.. 29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is very little free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan...

Hello Hero's please i have bought a new CD-RW disk (650MB/74MIN) and i want o save some documents in please what can i do to save the documens in it. This is the message i'm getting that "the device is not ready!

Hi Ben, Here is more information I forgot to mention: This laptop had no trouble reading the "burned" CDs before this trouble started. Note: I often used the CD drive to read a particular "burned" CD. Now, it has trouble reading that CD. Floppy drive problem, which started at the...

Dear sirs, I am the owner of a windows 98se machine.due to the amount of files stored,my computer has become very slow.whenever i try to run disk defragmenter after going for about 10% it gets back to 0% and shows 'drives contents changed:retarting'.this happens a number of times and goes on for...

What is $5 and 15 minutes when it can make you earn $100,000 ? Not much, if you ask me... You've probably seen a lot of those kind of messages over forums and newsgroups, and the explanation for this can be given in two words: IT WORKS! But how on earth, will you ask me, does it actually works?...

RECOVERY DISK WILL NOT LOAD WHEN PUT INTO THE CD PLAYER NEED HELP PLEASE

The ZIP Folders on my computer have being corrupted ever since installing WinZIP. Upon uninstalling because it was of no use to me, it removed the ZIP file extension. What is the command line for the ZIP folders...

I have a laptop that was compressed. Someone deleted some of the files in the root of the host drive. The actual file that was used for the compression is still there. Is there any way of recovering the compressed drive?