it wont start at all people ive used the bootdisk website
that i was given in a previous post but windows 98 still
wont start with my hard disk installed as it says remove
all media and disks. if i take this out it still wont

We just had to reinstall Windows 98 on our computer and
the hard drive was re-formatted.  When we look at the C:
drive in Windows explorer, it only shows 4G of space even
though the hard disk is 13G.  Under FDISK /STATUS it shows:

My computer crashed & I need to download windows 98
again but I have lost my windows 98 cd.      
Could someone tell me where I can purchase another
windows 98 cd and bootable disc??

Just recently device manager doesn't list both my cdrw and
my dvd.  All cables have been checked.  I can't access
either drive to even reload windows. I've d/l new drivers
but that hasn't done anything since there is no device

i have code 10 error code for primary ide
controller.advice please

hi, i have just formatted my C drive (main HD) in an
attempt to clean out my memory. Have actually got it
formatted, but now cannot reinstall Win 98 as i actually
dont know how. Lol i realise this seems really stupid,

I tried adding new hard drives (western digital wdac33100-
00h, 3.2gb and seagate st34313a, 4.3gb) but fdisk won't
partition over 499mb. I'm using fdisk on the w98 startup
disk I created. I have a dell dimension xps90 with updated

Recently I Had My Hard Disk formatted and my OS is Win 98 SE. Everything is
fine but when I shut down the usual "It IS Now Safe To Switch Off Your
Computer" doesn't appear any more.
Can it be fixed??

Windows 98 will not boot-up.  I have a boot up disk that i
made before this happened, when i insert it and run it
with or with out cd rom support this message comes
up "windows 98 has detected that Drive C does not contain

I have two cd-rom drives. When I start up the computer I
get a message that states I should check the boxes for
disconnet and auto insert notification. Both drives are
IDE drives. If I select yes to have both of these options

I've been trying to fix my CD-ROM drive now for a month,
but nothing works. As for the basic symptoms - "F:/"
or "D:/" drive(s) do not appear in the "My computer"
window, and I CANNOT fix the problem, and when I try, the

I get the following reports when I try to access my A:
drive.  
A:\ is not accessible.
The device is not ready.

It drives me buggy because the computer labels every drive
except my hard drive as a 3 1/2" floppy:  my 5 1/4 (yes,
I'm the only person alive that has a 5 1/4 in their
pentium III), my zip drive, and my cd rom.  I'm forever

i have a standard computer with window 98 and have
recently been having alot of problems with accessing the
floppy drive. when trying to access through "my computer"
or any prgram such as excel it comes up with "the disk is

The other day we were looking at some pictures we had
burned onto a CD, everything was fine until I tried to
eject the CD.  I got the message "No supported CD-R/CD-RW
drive!"  I tried running 'directcd' with no results.  I