I am getting the above message "Invalid System Disk-
Replace and hit any key".  Is there a method to boot up
around this message?  I hit the escape key, went to the
BIOS, did not see an "a" drive boot up priority.  Thank

if anyone has/could create a windows 98 boot disk, and
send me the files as a .zip attatchment by email - or add
me to msn messanger and send it, if you do, i am sure i
can find some way to help you/reward you.

how i can read (by script or programing ) hard disk serial
nubmer under windows 95 or 95

I have a 16 gig hard drive and I'm often falling below 1
gig of hard disk space remaining.  The My Documents folder
once contained a little over 3 gigs of stuff, and after
looking at all the stuff in it and cleaning it out and

I have asked many people how to prevent Defragmenting and
DiscScan to constantly start over (because the computer
saves new information) and they told me to press  
"ctrl + alt + del" and exit all programs exept for systray

Lately I have had trouble with defragmenting my hard
drive. It says I have an error on it, and that I should
run ScanDisk. I have run ScanDisk (both Standard &
Thorough Tests) and it says the disk has no errors on it.

where can i download windows 98se startup disk

Hi all;
I have this problem where 1 or 2 drive W: appear in my Windows explorer.
Their icon(s) are wordpad icon(s) but if I try to access them, I get an
error message that the drive is inaccessable.

I am currently running WinXP on my first hard drive which is partitioned
into C: and D: (C: for WinXP, D: for applications), but want to also install
win98 on my 2nd hard drive to allow for dual boot. Currently the 2nd drive
is set up as my E: drive and is 7GB in size (have ...

Had to re-install 98 on drive C;
D: was OK before hand as my slave drive. After reinstall fdisk can't see it
although BIOS picks it up OK.
Any ideas

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?  I cannot
start windows98.  I get the following error:
"While Initializing Device IOS - Windows Protection Error"
Then I try to start in safe mode, I get

I have had windows 98se running on my old machine, a
233MHz beast that became too slow to tolerate. On
upgrading the motherboard to a Gigabyte GA-8LD533 and a
new Maxtor 40G 7200 HD and reinstalling the OS, the CD is

My system is having major issues, and my brother
recommended I reinstall Windows.  Of course, my Win98 disk
has decided to walk off to who-knows-where, so I have no
way of doing the reinstallation.  Is there a way I can

My wife bought some russian language CD ROMS with her from
Ukraine and we are having trouble reading them on my
computer. I have loaded the russian language from the
Windows CD and we can type in Cyrillic OK but still when

I have a secondary hard drive that I installed on my
windows 98 OS and it has worked for a year now.  It was
running on a Promise Card and now it is gone what is the
best way for Windows to rerecognize the drive?