After doing a complete reformat on their Gateway, my
daughter realized they lost the original Win98 book so she
doesn't have the original registration number to put back
in...any suggestions?

When I try to run a scan disk I keep getting an error
message saying that is has had to stop because somethiong
was writing to the drive. After 10 times I disaalow the
erro message and after many hours the scan disk does

ok guys, thanks for the info. but, i went back this
morning to try again, and now, at 7 percent, it gives
me: "Not Ready / Format terminated." This is really
getting on my nerves, i've formatted my hard drive many

When I put a CD into the machine and try to run the d
drive, it says not accessible. I have made sure in
properties, the box is ck'd for autorun, but nothing. I
run Win 98.

I got this message right after I turned on my pc
I don't know how to get rid of it
I can't start my windows, I used my start up disk, but it
doesn't work and when I press a button, the message only

I installed an SIIG firwire card which has been recognized
properly by my 98 system, but it does not recognize the 80
gig firewire external drive attached.

When I try to use either drive - I get a notice that the
Drive is not accessible. Checked Drivers and both have
best driver installed.  Any suggestions, would be
appreciated.

i have 95 but i now want 98 i have a 98 disk that cme with
a friend's computer but everyone says that i also need an
update disk

My Dell laptop hard disk is being accessed every other
second without pause. Always at the same rate. Happens
whether or not other programs are opened. How can I stop
this?

my computer has managed to mess up the screen resolution  
how do i get it back to  800 x 600 ?    any help will be
appreciated

I have Window 98 operating IBM Aptiva.  I tried to install
DSL s/w and when I put CD into CD-Rom drive, I get a
message "not accessible".  Please help me.

I'm writing this on behalf of a friend.
His laptop (IBM Thinkpad, unsure of the model) has only
one 6 Gb hard drive, running Windows 98, partitioned
roughly in the middle. I'm familiar with the Fdisk tool,

Hi there, after updating the BIOS of my ASUS P/I-P55T2P4,
my mobo registers the new WD400JB-00ENAO (40GB/7600rpm/8MB-
buffer) correctly, but Win 98SE states the capacity of the
3 partitions as 3.89+1.94+1.97=7.9GB only. With the help

my windows 98 wont boot normal even with a floppy start up
copy I made it says drives loaded ok yet reinstall windows
disk and reboot , where can I get a windows reboot disk on
line

i'm trying to format my c: drive, and whenever it reaches
20 percent it gives me an error stating: "Trying to
recover allocation unit      246,682". Does anyone know
what the problem is? Any help is appreciated, thanks.