I need to know how to properly format my Hard Drive and I'm
not quite sure how to do so. I'm currently running on a
Windows 98 Operating System.

How do I do a recovery without this certificate. Lost book
and certificate... Please help

So I was at a customer site yesterday, overseeing the installation of an app
I created when low-and-behold the app fails because it didn't install the
device inf file (btw I'm using InstallShield Ex 4.0).
My first question was "Shouldn't Win98 always have a "//Windows/inf/"

I normally carryout Maintenance (Scan and defrag)once or
twice a month. It usually takes about 15 mins to complete
the job.
For the past 2 weeks, I am having problem with defrag. It

Hi,
I have Windows 98 second edition. My DVD drive worked OK
before. Now when I try to use my DVD drive, I have an
exception:

I have a no longer used laptop running 98se, that I would
like to give to my granddaughter.  
In order to clean things up, I thought I could format the
hard drive to wipe out all the junk, old applications and

Does win98 support udma 5? If not, up to which udma does it
support? I got a serious error after setting umda to 5.

I have windows 98 but i don't have the original disk. The
file winmain.exe has become infected and must be deleted
and I don't have a backup to reinstall a clean file. You
would think that you would be able to download it from

when going to use my cdrom, error message comes up
'a required DLL file, MSVBVM60.DLL, WAS NOT FOUND'
can find no such driver on the disk as the cd will not
run.

I need help desperately, I am having hard disk with 7 partitions
C.D.E.F.G.H,I), I am having windows 98 on C:\ and windows xp on F:\,
a week ago I formatted F,G,H,I to NTFS instead of fat 32 so windows 98
wasn't able to see them but everything went ok, I mean that whenever I start

when you try to defrag or scandisk a very big
hard disk (240 gb) a problem occurrs...
the solution is to repartitioning the hard
disk in smallers partitions...

defrag and scan disks 240 gb !!!
when you try to defrag or scandisk a hard disk
240 gb an error occurs...
the solution is to repartition the hard disk in

We need to reinstall a portion of windows 98 and it
requires the installation disk which we no longer can
find. If we upgrade to say XP will we lose all the files
and programs on the computer? Is there a way to back them

I ask you guys for a help.
I have 2 partition in my HD. The first one is W98 and
second is W2000. I had to deleted and created the first
partition (Windows 98). After formated it and installed

Can anyone tell me what error message 0147:00007E59 has to
do with ?