Does anyone know of a method to reformat a compressed hard
drive?

It looks like I have to wipe my C: drive and reinstall
Win98. But once the drive is wiped, how do you install?  
Will it just start running if I put the Win98 disk in the
drive?  How can it even recognize the CD drive?

I have the following message, DISKBOOT FAILURE, IN  my
hard disk, I downloaded the driver but still does not work
it is not going to win 08 at all, any chance I can revive
my win 98

I'm curious. Basically, to cut to the chase, I have a hard drive that errr,
died on me (neither the Bios nor Windows will detect it). As I have no spare
internal power cables (all taken up by my drives), I am wondering if it is
possible to run an internal hard drive, externally. ...

Often while trying to download or transfer from C drive to
A drive floppys; I get an error (?) onto the disc. It
appears as a TMB as if I had downloaded it as a file. It
appears instead of the file I attempted to download. Also,

Windows 98 crashes very frequently and has to be manually
switched off. The Scandisk which follows on reboot shows
that in the File System check there was a lost cluster.
Where do this lost cluter come from?

Hi all, I have a problem with a fat32 partition made with Win98, after
defrag the PC was shutdown and according to the owner an error popped up
reporting a file allocation error. Now the PC does not boot and it sounds
like the file allocation table is screw up or something. Any ...

i wanna download windows 98 but havin a hard time finding
the program. how can i find the program?

I have a CD rom, 'My computer' shows 'removable disk' as D
drive, not a cd rom. Systems folder in control panel
recognises my CD Rom, not a removable disk, therefore
cannot uninstall removable disk and install cd as already

HELP ! !
I've just compacted a 64 mb smartmedia card and my camera
tells me the card is full.
Does anyone know how to "Un-compact" such a disk / Card.

Ayone out there: using windows 98, how is the data
contained on a floppy retrieved and stored on the hard
drive and then make multiple copies of the floppy? This is
my second attempt at getting an answer. Thank you.

I want to uninstall Fat 32 because I've been advised not
to use it on my old almost-full computer.  I'm trying to
free up space, but not by compressing disks.  Can anyone
tell me how to safely uninstall Fat 32?

I installed a 30 gig external usb drive to backup a 18 gig
internal drive.  Microsoft Backup will only let me backup
to Type "File" and to a ".qic" file.  Problem is that
after 4 gigs, it asks for new media.  My guess is that QIC

The floppy drive makes a noise every half an hour or so
(which lasts for about 5 mins) It sounds like it is trying
to read a floppy disk although I haven't asked it to and
there is nothing in there anyway.

Have a drive that FAT32 that is full of *.chk files. Is
there any way to recover data out of those files???