okay i have 2 problems
#1 i cant get my computer to do a scan disk
#2 i cant get my computer to do a defrag.
with the scan disk porblem my computer only goes  soooo

I am having to re-install windows 98, I have the disc but
do not have the product key - can anyone help me, I
purchased the product from IBM who are unable to help!11

can I use win98se as a base operating system on the new
120gb serial or ultra ata HDD when installing Windows XP?

Hi  I am trying to create a 2 new partition on a 3GB
drive.  When I try to delete the one partition that is
there I get this message:  Could not change partition
because disk could not be locked.  Could someone help me

I'm trying to partition and format a new Seagate 80 gig hd for a Win98/XP
Pro dual boot machine.  I'm trying to first partition the entire disk as a
fat32 primary partition.  After that I want to repartition 60 gigs of the
disk for later installation of XP Pro and use the 20 gig ...

Hope this is the right forum for the question.  The
WIN386.swp file on my Win 98 system is approx 600Meg in
size.  I thought it was to automatically reduce size when
not needed.  Disk space is tight so I need to reduce the

Windows 98 was working before the slave hard drive (D:)
crashed. After disabled the slave drive via F1 (System
Configuration). After power up and everything seems to be
working but when try to use Windows Explorer it takes

I was running a basic free space program which would
determine x amount of space which could be recovered.  
The program froze so I killed it to no avail.  Shutdown
and rebooted only to get an error that there was a non-

I puchased a Western Digital 40GB 7200RMP 8MB Cache hard
drive and installed it as my master hard drive.  I then
switched my old 8GB hard drive to slave just to use for a
backup.  Cable connetions and jumpers all double checked.

Windows 98 Was working before the slave hard drive (D:)
crashed. After disabled the slave drive via F1 (System
Configuration) on power up and everything seems to be
working but when try to use Windows Explorer it takes

Here's my sys info below, I'm operating a Toshiba Techra
500CDT and am pretty much a novice user.  My grahics take
a long time to fill in most of the time.  It takes quite  
a lot of time just to get the machine turned on, let alone

If this should be posted elsewhere, please let me know and
I'll be happy to do so.
In addition to half of the messages on this board, I would
like to reformat my hard drive.  It's never been done and

My laptop running Win98 starting "acting weird".  I
thought it probably had a virus because Norton Antivirus
had become disabled and I also couldn't access my home
network or the internet.  After manually looking for

You know the story by now.  I'm looking for Flash Drive drivers for a Win98
machine and everyone suggests contacting the manufacturere.  Well there are
no drivers on their site and they won't respond to email.
Anyone bought a flash drive from knowledgemicro, now called ewiz and ...

My computer recently crashed and I am going to have to
reformat my hard drive.  There are some business and
personal files I would like to remove before I do this.  
Is there a way to send these document files to a floppy