when i load windows 98, i get the splash screen the an
error message that states there was a fatal exception
error 0d at 0209f:0001cf86

I have a brand new Compaq (HP) D330, straight out of the
box, configured with Windows98 standard install. I
purchased a new Sony cd-rw, installed no problems. It was
picked up by the bios and windows. I restarted the machine

Q229670 SYMPTOMS
For Windows 98 SE version 4.10.2222 (Second Edition):
  Date       Time      Version     Size      File name
  ----------------------------------------------------

Whenever i try to put in a CD, game, or any kind of disk,
the computer tells me that there is no disk in, or that it
is not accessible, it is like that the computer is
ignoring the drive, i have tried to reload all the

Running W98SE trying to backup with norton Ghost 2001.  
Get error "invalid cluster" 3ad0496 Scan disk to correct.  
Scan disk did not fix.  How can I read this cluster or
repair it or reassign it?

The floppy disk that I had to boot and setup Win 98 from
my CDRom is corrupted.  How can I obtain a new disk or
better still download an image file of the disk to make my
own bootable floppy setup disk..

Error:
  Hard Drive 1: Buffer/Cable Test:test failed, error
code: 017001001
  Write & Read buffers Different

Trying to boot using a USB memory key.  Copied a floppy
boot disk onto it.  When it boots from the key, it treats
it as a c: drive, so edited the autoexec to run files
from c:\... instead of a:\...   However, at some point

Using win98se I have two CD readers and the drive letter on one got changed
from D to F. How do I change it back.
Don Wallace
Portland, Or.

Whenever I perform scandisk of the logical drive in the
extended partition of the disk. Each time I do scandisk it
tries to find out the Bad sectors and never fixes them in
totalilty. So pl. do help me by suggesting a solution for

Hi Frank,
   I too copy lots of files from CDs to my hdd.  I use FM (Files Manager)
which I downloaded from:
   http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/58307/html

All of a sudden I cannot access my CD ROM and my CDRW drives.
Under the hard disk controller I have the secondary IDE controller (dual
fifo) marked in yellow.
Any ideas?

How can I re-acquire the OSCORE.DLL file? (I accidentally
deleted it and cleaned out my recycle bin before I
realized the mistake.)

have old w9x 4gb 64ram paqckard bell, someone mentioned
that I cannot upgrade system? minimum upgrd to 20-40gb
128ram will be ok! also drive space 3 keeps popping on
start up, can't compress, have fat32, what to do with

message- unable to defrag due to errors. . .need to correct
scan disk message- scan disk has restarted 10 times due to
a program is writing to this drive
All programs closed