something is very strange on my computer. my hard disk
9.52 gb. my free space indicates 1.16 gb.i don't have 8 gb
in progams and i don't save internet files. where can i
look or maybe i have a virus that atacks my memorry.

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    I stupidly checked the USE DMA box in the GENERIC IDE
TYPE 47 hard disk drive controller device listed in device
manager in Win98SE. Now I cannot uncheck the box as it

I cannot get my defragger to go past 10%. It will run for
4 hours and never go past 10%. Can you help me?

My hard drive is basically dead, makes a lot of clunking
noise, won't boot, get I/O error.
The obvious is that I need to replace it, but I was
wondering what the chances are of recovering any data?

when I close down all windows and go to run disk
defragmenter it looks like it working but it never moves
off 0%  I look at the details and nothing shows up?
I hear the hard drive,(like its working) but its not.

I'm trying to come to grips with the way Windows stores
files on disk. I know about cluster sizes etc but I'm
unable to relate what I see when I right-click on a disk
icon, and note the 'Used Space' reading under Properties

I am trying to copy an access data base file from an old
computer using win 98 on floppy discs to my newer
computer using winxpro. The file has 20,000
names/addresses and is about 2.5mg in size. Is this

Will updates download to floppy disks from C Drive once
they are installed using Windows start-up disk?

i save too much information on a single disk.  i must have
overloaded it.  Is there any way to get the information
off this disk?  It wont load.

A tech support said I may be missing or have a bad .dll
file.  I may be missing that kernal32.dll.  Any ideas on
how to search and/or reinstall a .dll?

I need drivers and WIN98SE "PCMCIA WIZARD"
to allow use of EIDE HDD when booted from DOS, the command
line mode.
Drivers may be called

After starting a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop in safemode and
trying to run both scandisk and defrag, I get this
message. It is a Win98SE OS with 128MB RAM, an 18GB hard
drive and plenty of free resources (90%). I found MS

I purchased my computer (AMD K62-400) from Value Vision on
4/5/99.  Included with my equipment was a Windows 98 CD-
Rom.  The product key is: T2YCB-JGCPB-P262F-QF74C-WJTCJ.  
Recently I utilized this disc to install some of the

Norton Anti Virus hung when scanning the disk when it got
to:
C:\WINDOWS\All Users\Application Data\DIGStream
Lots of files with jiberish for file and folder names.

can not get my computer to do a scan disck/allrunning
programs are closed and after it goses to checking folder
it starts about 10 times