Hi guys 'n gals,
I wish I could keep this short, but some description is
required.
My 8GB Maxtor c: drive locked up and died.  I have always

I recently acquired a DVD burner so I decided to take my
CD burner (a TEAC CDW524E) to my parents and install it on
their computer, which is running Win98.  I know that the
drive itself was working fine prior to installation on the

The computer is running slow. Right clicking creates a
long, long pause. CD rom will not open or eject. Icons
move themselves on the desktop. Virus scan says there were
no viruses found. Reinstalling Windows didn't help.

is there any way to make the settings for disk/cache/internet settings
unchangeable?
have user who continually screws up stuff and then complains about poor
performance.

I have an Exabyte Eagle Nest with removable Zip Drive.  
When ever I need to change disks I have to turn the Nest
off and back on in order to get the data on the new disk
to show up in Explorer.  This is an older product and I

I'm unable to boot from my floopy drive after a reboot.
I've checked in my bios and the boot seq is a then c.
Since A is my floopy i figure it should boot but it reads
the disk then continues to load windows normally.

Win98se crashed and took the 40 GB hard drive with it.
Fdisk only showed the drive as 7 GB, even though the POST
read it as 40 GB.
Replacing the drive with an 80 GB Maxtor resulted in Fdisk

my cd drive doesnt work. it is detected in the computer,
and the computer thinks it is functioning properly, even
though it isnt. i put a cd in, then double click the "E:"
drive icon and it says "not ready". it will do this

Not sure this is the right forum. I have 581,632KB in my
Win386.swp file. Does anyone know wht causes this and how
to fix it?

    I am running win98 with a 5gb harddrive and my
computer says that the harddrive is only 2gb.....so can
anyone tell me how to delete the other partitions??

My RW cd dick drive will not eject bu pushing the button
or by clicking on eject in properties.  If I restart the
computer it will eject bu only once per restart.  I had
this problem perviously and Dell took me through a number

My old computer is receiving the error message invalid
system disk please replace the disk and press any key
before the OS is loaded.. pleasr help me with this
problem.

Windows protection error you need to reboot computer.

I have installed a samsung 252FRAS and it didn't show up
in win98. The computer already had a DVD drive attached
so I checked both jumper settings. The DVD drive was set
as a slave drive so I changed it to master and left the

I downloaded the harddrive test from Maxtor, and the test
tells me the harddrive is fine - no errors found.  This is
the same result I got from Norton's Disk Doc.  However,
there are still problems w/ writing to the disk, so it