Scenario:
An old Compaq 5120C, a new EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive (the Compaqs first
CD drive), a freshly formatted FAT hard drive, an official copy of MS
Win98 SE with boot disk.

I'm running Windows 98SE & have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive
installed... my problem is when I try & read a recently
burnt CD (ie. from one of my friends) I get the following
message;

Can anyone tell me ow to get ny Defrag program to work.
I've disabled my anti-virus program but it still just sits
there in a blank screen. Thanks,Jim

Howdy all...
Kinda new to this stuff but have technological aptitude.
I want to boot up from my CD-Rom.  I do not have anti-
virus software and the semantec disk tells me to boot up

tried to install videocamera it crashed my computer so we
formatted and reinstalled widows through dos and a window
tells me that the C:\windows\system\schlwap\.dll file is
corrupt what do i do?

How to change the drive letter of a second hard disk under
Windows 98?

Scandisk just reallocated my lost clusters to free space
and now my d drive is clear.  Is there anything I can do
to get my missing files/directories back?? i haven't shut
down my computer nor wrote anyhting the the drive in

after downloading win98 on my computer it came to when it
asked me re-inset the 98 and it showed i needed to copy
the C:\WINDOW\SYSTEM\PRECOPY  on the com. I did but when
i press ok it come back,it is not accepting it i dont

I have an older PC (~ 4 y/o).  It's a Micron Millennia w/ a P2 inside.
I yanked out the old internal disk, which was attached to the "Primary
IDE" channel.  I want to attach my new Maxtor (80GB ATA/133) to it as
the primary/boot drive.

On my wish list for my older computer (500 MHz Win 98 Se)
has been a DVD Burner.  For my last birthday my wife and
children gave me $ to buy one.  We went out and purchased
one and I intsalled it myself.  I thought it was pretty

i bought a computer from a pawn shop in seattle, no
software was included, although windows 98 is installed in
the system.  how can i create a backup disk from the
windows 98 info: in harddrive to a floppy just in case my

When performing disk cleanup I notice that I have 214
hidden files using 48mb of space. Is this normal or is it
an indication of a problem? I am not aware of what hidden
files are at all - are they system generated or where do

hi, I am trying to install a 20GB hard drive as a
seconddary to my win xp system. and when I set it as a
slave it installs the drivers and says NEW HARDWARE FOUND
but It does not show the drive in MY COMPUTER. The both

I have a Compaq Presario desktop w/Win98SE pre-installed.  
I am trying to install an internal 2.0 USB hub and a
digital camera.  During the install procedure for each, I
get the message that a certain file or files are needed

The time on my computer keeps changing.  I do not shut it
off and can not understand why the time would change.  
Please reply if you have any idea.