Completed FDISK of a 6G drive as FAT32 with one active
partition.  Rebooted.  Ran FORMAT C:, but get "Trying to
recover allocation unit x" where x is some large number
(110,000 - 113,000) that increments slowly.  Let it run

ok, I recently attempted to format my hard drive.  When
it was time to run FDISK, I noticed that I had option "5"
in the menu which allows you to change the logical drive
you are going to do all the partition stuff on.  

I compressed my floppies using DriveSpace 3 (new space is
2.56 meg). When I try to write an uncompressed file (size
about 1.9 meg) from my C drive to that floppy I get an
error telling me there isn't enough space on the floppy to

i'm a rookie, why can't i transfer data files from a 3.5
diskette to my cd rom drive using windows explorer? it
says drive is inaccessible?

I don;t have a boot file disk my computer is saying boot
file failure while booting. It just happended this
morning when I turned it on.
Can someone tell me how I get a bootfile disk on the net

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me, I have
been up all night trying to figure out the solution.
I have posted twice in this forum under "josh".
please help if you can.

I reinstalled windows 98 because of CONSTANT fatal error
messages when attempting to shut down. I used the disks
that came with my laptop purchase at Gateways. I lost
several programs that originally came with the computer,

I have a Vaio 505 with windows 98. Have never run
defragmentation until 2 days ago.  It cycled from 0% to 1%
and back. I let it run for over 12 hours.  I ran ScanDisk
and it seemed to complete successfully.  I ran Defrag again

Since upgrading to a cable modem, I can no longer run scan
disk or disk defrag.  System thinks there is an
application running in the back ground.  How do I get
around this?

When I try to run Norton (NDD) or defrag disk I get a
message,(Links contains illegal long file name entries on
drive C) any idea what this means. THANKS for any help.

My older computers running Win98SE will never run Win XP.
Does or will Microsoft offer all needed Service Packs,
Updates, and Critical Patches that I can buy to allow me
to keep my old and necessary computers running if I have

Does anyone know where I can obtain HDPRepEz 1.9a or the
latest version.
I am trying to upgrade to Win 98 on a NEC 6230.
I am trying to follow the NEC upgrade procedures.

When I try to create a Windows 98 Startup Disk, I am asked
to insert a disk labeled "Windows 98 Second Edition CD-
ROM".
I do not have this disk.  The disk I have is

I was wondering how I would add another hard drive. Does it
(the 2nd disk) need to already be loaded with Windows 98
or can it be a blank formated disk.

I have 40GB hard disk with partitions C, D, E,F, G and H.
Pertaining to E drive, I encountered a proble that is an
error mesage appears...
E:\ is no accessible. Device attached to the system is not