I had a CD Rom on a Promise Ultra 100 controller.  It
worked as primary slave.  I replaced it with a CD R/W
drive and Windows 98 still treats it as a CD Rom and Easy
CD creator cannot see it.  Drive works fine, I installed

 I've been working on this old pentium MMX 133 laptop of
my officemate and went on to del/repartition the harddriv
to fat32. I manage to successfully partitioned the dying
harddriv (3.0Gig), format it. But as try to make the disk

I lost a 13G disk drive just last weekend, when I switched in a new untested
80-connector IDE cable.  On booting, the BIOS recognised the drive, but would
not boot up.
1.  I tried various recovery tools, putting it on another computer as D-drive,

We have various machines which intermittently try to
access the A: drive(light on for about 5 sec).  We have
gone into explorer, accessed and floppy then moved to C:
drive but the A drive continues to try to access. It has

exeption OE is happend on 0028:C00069F8 in VXD VMM(01)
+000059F8.This is calld for from 0028:C004C09C in VXD VFAT
(01)+0000A024........HELP !

Hi, Any ideas on how to solve the defrag problem which
keeps on restarting after 10% has been completed....
I have "EXITED" all the apps on the task bar - and the
screen saver ( set to NONE)).

When booting I get a message that windows\sp.dll is
missing and my computer shuts down in the middle of some
applications.  I have tried to upgrade to XP Pro but it
aborts in mid-install too.  Any ideas?  Could this be a

I want to download microsoft word because the disc is not
working. Everything is being re-installed but the disc for
microsoft word won't work. Where can I download it for my
pc?

how can i get this disc to work?

hi hope someone would help me with this problem...
when i download steaminstall_cs.exe and i install into my
computer it will show [ An I/O error occurred while
installing a file.this is normally caused by bad

HELP! Have Compaq 5184 AMD, Win98SE, 192MB.  Plugged in
Dazzle high speed Smart media reader.  Shows in Device
manager - USB Controllers but not in My Computer.  Tried
to "Add new hardware", but sysytem couldn't find it,

How do you enter the bios and change to Boot from diskett
to CD boot?
For two OS's win98SE and XP pro.
Please explain the precedure for both computers...

was running scan disc and only shows A: & C:  can't play
any cd's no sound what do Ii do?

I was just downloading some self extracting files and
making some boot disks.  I was wondering what this
Custom, No Ramdrive bootdisk is, and what it does.  
Please let me know!

I am computer illiterate! HELP I need to transfer files to
a disk so I can use them on another PC.