Hello , Sinds a day or 2 my second partition of my hard disk doesn't exists anymore. When a ran partitioninfo from partitionmagic i got the following info. PowerQuest PartitionInfo 2.0 -- Windows 95 Version Date Generated: 06/22/04 08:46:21 Copyright (c)1994-1999, PowerQuest...

I tried to Install Norton Anti Virus 2004 Professional. My system crashed. I was able to uninstall the bungled installation but since then I have a problem. MY CD ROM causes my PC to crash, sometimes even without a CD in the place when I close the drive the PC crashes, at other times it won't crash...

Defrag fails "Windows cannot defragment this drive because it contains errors that must first be repaired. Click Help, carry out the instructions for repairing the errors, and then try defragmenting the drive again." (DEFRAG004) I follow instructions on repairing the error - scandisk - which...

i think pc is in safe mode !my screen is all faded and not allowing full use of system.have rebooted pc shutdown etc. stillthe same,can anybody advise...i am a complete novice thanks

ok my older computer is windows 98 and it is messed up is there a place where i can go and try to get something to fix it. my mouse won't work when it loads up. it will work in safe mode.

Hello, Can someone please help.... Slightly mad question he Is there a way of getting drive image to *not* compress a file of a given name so that this file can be zeroed and the deleted prior to imaging the drive? Background:-

My AutoPlay is disabled on my CD-Rom Drive. I have to activate it via 'My Computer'. Can anybody advise me how to avtivate it. I purchased my computer secondhand. Can anybody advise? Thanks Len

the fix to be able to install 46gig plus hard drives was only avail from tech support and they no longer supoort does any one else have a copy of FDisk for W98 later than 15 of dec 1999?? or m=know where to get one from???

I started up my old Windows 98 computer the other day and went to Explorer. When it opened I noticed the second hard drive was not there. I opened My Computer and also the same thing. I had recently moved the computer, so I opened it up and checked the connections and then re- started. I still...

Can anybody out there tell me where I can download a boot CD or floppy disc so that I can install 98 windows SE on my laptop computer.I have the 98 windows SE CD but need the boot disc in order to install it. My laptop computer is a 98 IBM computer with 10 GBS harddrive. Thanks and God bless you...

OK, you can stop looking into this now, everyone!! I just can't cope with the deluge of responses!! Although I have still not found a solution to the problem, I did find a workaround: I changed the mobile drive from the Secondary Slave to the Primary Slave. -----Original Message----- I have...

We have stacks of 5.5 inch floppys with dated, but important files on them. I have inserted a 5.5 drive into a computer running win98 but it does not detect it. I don't know what brand the drive is. Are there ways to get the computer to read the 5.5's and be able to transfer the files to the HD...

Just curious. Does the disk defragmenter in Win 98 overwrite the empty space on the disk when it defragments? I know the defragmentation process reorganizes disk data so everything gets put back in its place for more efficient access, but what about overwriting empty space? Thanks. Bob

I keep getting the same message when trying to copy files" either from the cd or disk drives. "the system cannot read from the specified device" or "drive not accessible" what can I do?

I want to download some games for my son's computer that isn't on line but the games take up more space than the disk allows. I don't know much about zip files but, is that what I have to do to download games? Can anyone tell me a simple way to do it?

Can anyone help me out with this ? I am a dumb blonde running windows 98. Hello, I'm experiencing a problem with my CD-ROM drive. When I put any kind of CD in the D:\ drive, I get an error message saying "D:\ is not accessible. The device is not ready." I cannot do anything about it, by using a CD...

Recently, I have encountered the VFAT error. I conducted a search of the Microsoft KB for VFAT, and discovered Microsoft KB article ID - 139063 that addresses this issue. This article provides six options to resolve this problem. However, I wasn't sure about the intent of option three, which...

Ran Ghost 2003 and it gave error to run scandisk, ran scandisk and the entire drive is now .chk files. Anyone know of a utility to recover the data from .chk files? I have searched MS support and checked with other resources, haven't found anything yet. This was a 10GB drive, now has 10,000 .chk...

As the subject line says whats the biggest drive it can support. My hard drive died and the shop put an 80GB in it and i bought Win XP home edition but too many of my old programs wont run properly with it so want to go back to Win 98 where they all work fine. However it only is recognising 10GB...

I had to short the battery on the motherboard to reset the password. now, the cd-rom and the other hard drive are not recognized. What do I Do?