on booting my computer give a message to the
effect "invalid system disk. Replace and press any key to
continue".
At first I thought that the disk has completely crashed.

Ok, for the last good few hours i've sifted through all
the posts and information on this site, ive tried most
things i've read which I'll list bellow in a sec, also
please note that the CD drive works perfectlly in dos and

I have a problem with my booting of windows 98 it won't
load at start up correctly and then it starts scandisk but
stops at less than 20percent and says message "Scandisk
encountered a data error while reading

I have a computer that came up "Invalid system disk.
Replace the disk and then press any key."  I tried to
reinstall Win98, and as it went through checking the
drive, Scandisk found many problems. First, ".. found a

How long does it take the Disk Fragmenter to complete. I
have run it for several hours and it still reads 0%
complete. I think it hangs up, but not sure.  Does anyone
have a clue.

how do you wipe your hard drive and start over

I have installed a second HDD with 120 GB on my PC. HDD is
recognized in BIOS and it was possible to partition it with FDISK
(up-dated version) in the DOS-window .
After re-boot I got follwing message (tranlated from German)

New CD-R/RW drive copied foto files to RW discs but would not recognize or
copy files to R discs. After tech supports and newsgroups, sent drive back
to manufacturer and am using only the CD-ROM drive for now. ROM drive dosn't
see the foto files that ARE on the RW disc. Is that ...

Just upgraded from 6 gb drive to 80 (windows 98 plus)using
ghost.  When I try to defrag the new drive it says it
cannot because there is not enough memory to perform
defrag.  Is there a solution?  Please reply via email.

When i try to start the cd it gives the message that the
drive "is not accessible". In safe mode the drive is
nowhere to be found.
Thanks for any help given.

i need to download a win98 boot disk...
can anyone help?

My Dell Dimension (Windows 98)worked well from November
1998 until June 2003 when I lost it through lightening
induced power surge entering via Modem.  [In retrospect an
obvious chink in armour, but nobody had warned me of the

I am running a desktop with Win98se. At the moment it has
two hard drives, a smaller one with the operating system
on, and a new one that I have partitioned and would like
to use in this machine. I want to remove the smaller drive

I kept getting  " No Valid Fat on Boot Disk "
I tried to reinstall and got this{{ Warning SU0168 you got
a OS and to upgrade but not with this version of
setup.Please obtain the Win 98 Upgrade.

i am running win 98 and in device manager under hard disk
i have the following errors:
intel 82371AB/EB pci bus master ide controller.
! primary ide controller (dual fifo)