I was reinstalling Windows 98 to try and fix a display
problem I was having.  After it reinstalled my CD ROM
drive no longer shows up and my Zip drive is now called
my b: floppy drive.  Any suggestions would be GREATLY

I have a hp Pavilion with CD-Writer Plus with Windows 98.
The CD Rom Drive is blinking and I cannot read any disc.
When I try to use M:\ it states "not ready"
Someone please help!!!!

I have Windows 98 and just bought a dvd drive that is only
compatible with Windows 98 SE or better.  Can I upgrade to
Windows 98 SE?  Or does anyone know of DVD burners that
will run on Windows 98?

a lot of my files have been accidently deleted. Everythime
I click on Microsoft word it wont open. I have Microsoft
Office 2000 Premium and nothing is working, excel, access,
word, power point, front page...

Could Win98SE or Win ME work with SATA (Serial-ATA) disks?

I  installed a new hard drive in a system and installed Win98Se.   After
Windows was installed I shut the system down and installed a  NIC.  When I
turned the power switch on again the power light came on but the system will
not start up.  By that I mean it does not even go through ...

I have been plagued by "hard disk is full" messages
lately. I know that Windows Explorer and ScanDisk use
different methods to compute the free space count.
ScanDisk uses the free cluster count, which excludes slack

Does anyone know what and how a disk file is generated?

my defrag will not run.  Every time I try to run it, the program stops and I am notified that I do not have enough memory to run defrag and to shut down all open programs (ID No: DEFRAG009).  I read some other postings here about problems with defrag and tried to shut everything ...

I recently got the error that "VIA Bus Master PCI IDE
Controller has some child like devices using 32 bit & some
using CMD, after you restart windows will use CMD for all
devices." How can I find out what device caused the

Disk defrag runs through the process but it only "defrags"
a portion of the disk, just half the last time.  And it
does not seem to hold.  I didn't first try it in safe mode
so it kept restarting.  Now I have tried several times in

I have Windows 98 operating system. I was trying to
Defrement Hard drive its taking too long.....I think it
restart everytime.Once I kept it running even for three
days it didn't finish.

I'm desperately looking for recovery disks for windows
98.  Any suggestions on where I might purchase them?

Trying to get my Outlook Express address book on an import
from my old HD onto my new one. Can't open it when I look
in application data on D: says 'cannot complete operation'
says the same thing when I try to import the .wab file.

    For some reason my Drive letters are mixed. My CDrom
drive which is D is reading my CDRW drive which is E.
When I click eject on my D drive my E drive opens up and
vise-versa. I tried changing the drive letters by going