OK  I'm mew.  I read the book.  I turned off everything I
know to do.  The defrag starts and never ( after 6 hours)
gets past 2%  complete.  I've gone through the process X
times with the same non-results.  Any suggestions

I have a 200Mhz computer that has windows 98se and two
versions of windows 2000 on it. Basically i tried to do
over the top and it didnt work. i need to format the hard
drive and then put 98 back on

About midway through the scan, I get the following error:
"ScanDisk encountered a data error while reading the
cluster 1052987.  
ScanDisk will try to continue past the this error.  When

a cd/dvd rw driver that i want requires windows 98se
(second edition?). is that an extention of windows 98? can
i download the needed upgrade for free? how much will it
cost if not?

Can someone teach me how to recover my ntss partition
drive using Win98 OS? Becasue last time i use xp(Legal)
then something wrong with the cd. So i formated to Win98.
But the partition drive (Ntss)cannot be read on Win98 OS.

When trying to format my hard drive to do a clean install,
I am getting a message that the disk could not be
locked...any suggestions?

I recently installed a DVD-RW (Pioneer DVR-A04) drive.  It
appears to work well (read and write).  However, with a
disc in the drive, looking at the drive in "My Computer"
it shows no free space on the disc.  Even with a small

Os:Win98se
I prefer the classic windows 95 looking desktop rather than the web
page type,same with explorer.
Is it possible to put program start up icons on the tray without

My computer was a hewlet packard with win98 on a fat 16
hard drive then i upgraded the motherboard and cpu to a
new ecs MOBO and 2000 amd XP.  After installing the new
parts, i tried to boot.  I received a message stating that

My PC can handle up to 128 Gig hard drive, as my old drive is 40 gigs - but
the newest drive, Maxtor 80 GB wasn't showing up correctly in FDisk.  A
quick trawl revealed that Microsoft had done a new version of FDISK that
fixed this problem, and I duly downloaded it, and checked that ...

I am unable to uninstall windows 98 second edition
because of the conversion to FAT32... The W98undo.dat and
other important variables have been deleted from my hard
drive. How I can work around this?

while I was in the progress of running the disk defragment
a box appeared and told me it can not do this because of a
utility disk lock and also at the same time during the
optimizing and sorting of the folders the box pops ups and

I recently installed XP with Win 98. When I boot the
computer,  and start Win 98 in the MultiBoot Screen, Win 98
doesn't mount the NTFS partition wiith XP. Is it possible
for Win 98 to mount NTFS partitions, or are there any

I have tried to make a copy of a floppy disk.  I tried to
save it in my documents but it wouldn't let me so I
cliked the copy command and now it has deleted the data
and I don't know where its gone.  Can anyone help me

The motherboard refuses to detect any IDE drive
whatsoever.  After not detecting the IDE drives, it gives
me a Boot Disk Failure.  I believe this is attributed to
a motherboard problem.  Thank you for your help...