How do I boot my computer in DOS Mode and not MS-DOS Mode?

A reinstallation of Win98 seems to have gone wrong and now I can't access a
Lite-On LTN382 CD-ROM drive. Windows seems to be looking on the D: drive and
not the C: drive for cdrom.sys and mscdex.exe, although config.sys and
autoexec.bat have them on the C: drive. (Normally the CD ...

I have a cd-r disk in the e drive, finished, I think.
However, I can not remove the disk.  Tried manual button
and software "ejects" but no luck.
How can I remove the disk?

i have this message apearing on my pc whenever i start it.
it looks like it is related to a program i can not delete
(instant access). the error message goes as follow:
RUNDLL32 caused an invalid page fault in

i tried turning on my computer this afternoon and it
wouldn't boot.  it kept looking for a boot disk in drive
A (something it's never done before).  how do i create a
boot disk when i can't get into Windows or is that even

The technician is attempting to transfer data from a
failing hard drive. He claims the process is very slow,
even suggesting over 2-3 days only 5% of data is
accomplished.The information stored is valuable to me.

I allowed a friend of mine to format my hard drive
thinking of course that it would be all good. I can only
utilize 1/4 of the drive space now. How do I fix this???
Anyone...it's driving me crazy!

We have a run time error '424' message come up and then
the computer completely freezes.  I can restart in
safemode but haven't determined how to repair the error.  
I'm assuming it is in the registry but that's about as

I allowed a friend of mine to partition my hard drive, now
I can only itilize 1/4 of the drive. Dod 4 Dummies says DO
NOT USE fdisk...? Help

I can't boot up Windows 98. When I used the boot disk and
run scandisk, it says that my FAT files are corrupted and
the error were not fixed. What can I do from here.

Where do I find the answers to these posts?

can i set up win 98 and win95 on the the same computer

I saw this on a search, and it pointed me to a page on
Microsoft, which does not exist.  Did or does anyone know
of the offer where if you currently have Windows 98 and
want to upgrade to Windows 98SE Micosoft will sale you the

I've used Windows XP Pro for a couple of years and before that used Apple machines, so I'm not very backwards-compatible in Windows - ha! My nephew asked me a question I can't answer. How can he permanently (not on the fly) change the program that will open a given file? I know ...