I'm attempting to convert an 8Mb drive to FAT32.  The
convertor makes the statement that it must reboot under
DOS to make the conversion, but when it attemts to do so
all I get is a black screen with the cursor in the upper

I need help. have a small hard drive and I am trying to
reinstall windows 98.  after trying to use fdisk to set up
partitions and format i get ...Error Reading Fixed
Disk......windows was previously on the disk but was

I recently transferred one drive to another larger drive
and since than, I can not get the system to shut down
properly.   The system hangs at windows is shutting down.
It has never done this before.

PC: 1995 Quantex, PII @233MHz, win98.
My original drive is a 6.5 G seagate drive (ST36531A).
I installed a new 40G WD drive (WD400BBRTL) as primary
master, and changed the ST to be primary slave.

I have added new hard disk (80 GB) to my computer, used
Norton Ghost to clone the original boot hard drive( 12 GB).
How do I make my computer boot from new drive, keeping the
old(12gb) drive still in the system.

Thanks for the reply to my posting,Jon, but I am a
complete Newbie (4 months with a computer)and I did not
understand how to do what you asked. I did not understand
what you asked me to do. I did go to the MS website you

My son played around with my device manager and now my
modem doesnt work.  Iam operating windows 98 and no
longer have the cd. and the device manager is looking for
a driver ( wmdll.dll)

I installed a 2nd hard drive and Windows 98 automatically
named it "d" and renamed my CD-ROM and DVD "e" and "f".  
Now some of my programs which were installed but only work
with the CD in the drive, keep asking me to insert the

I have a compaq laptop w98se with a very full 4 gig hard
drive that shows c: and d: on the same hard disk. Is this
a partitioned disk? The d: says "system_save (D:)" in
MyComputer. Is there a way to delete what is in d: or move

I cannot defrag my disk drive. It says
"Window cannot defragemtn this drive now because it has
been locked by a disk utility. Quit any utility that may
have locked this drive and then try defragmenting the

Can some one helpme erase Windows ME and istall windows 98
I have a program that will only run with win 98
Thank you!

I have the same problem as Elliot (July 13).
Code=10 (OxA) error.
Yellow exclamation point by secondary ide controller in
device manager. Red X by my dvd-rom. I, too, tried

When I run Scandisk on my PC I get a message that says ,
Scandisk has re-started 10 times..What shall I do?

Since Microsoft retired Windows 98...HP just informed me
that I'm unable to acquire replacement recovery disks...I
recently attempted to install a DSL modem ...due to a
problem with my windows 98 I was unable to log on...& also

Hello People
need help with my maxtor 200gb hard drive,when I try to
partition drive, fdisk keeps reporting maximum amount of
space on drive is 6340.mb.When I boot machine, post screen