Says lost Fat 32.  Where could it have gone and how do I
get it back.  Having problems with Win 98SE Someone help.
email me direct. churchill3@wyan.org  Thanks I hope

I have a problem with a drive I have recently installed.  
I am running Win 98SE, under the device manager I show a
primary master and a primary slave ... but no where else
does this second drive sow up.. Can someone please help me?

I have a user that has lost their boot files. Initially I
replaced them using the Windows 98 EBD and the sys
command thinking that they had gotten inadvertently
deleted by the user. However about a week later the user

I'm using Win98SE, and the following hardware:
Western Digital 80gb ATA100 HD
Seagate 80gb ATA 100 HD
both are new products, and I bought them a few days ago.

I have discovered that large files I have deleted that are
too big for the recycle bin still show up on the disk when
I defragment it.  That is, they show up on Speed Disk's
drive map and Speed disk still treats them as files to be

My comp is telling me this when I try to access the E:
drive. I went to Microsoft and this is what they said to
do, and I still cannot get it. I cannot find the
Mscdex.exe to replace. Can someone please explain more

One of the diskdrives on my sytem which is running
Win98SE, has the primary logical partition of 2gb , ie.
my "C:" drive that is formatted as FAT16.  This is where
my OS resides. The extended partition associated with this

I'm trying to install a SCSI hard drive. I already have an
IDE drive that is partitioned into 3 virtual drives. (c:,
d:, & e:) I want to make the scsi drive f: but every time
I try it, it gets put in a d:. This wouldn't be bad except

when i am trying to save something in my floppy disk it
makes a buzzing sound and it prompts to insert my disk in
the drive.  My disk however is already in the drive.
Does anyone know what the problem is and how to solve it.

I have a hard drive that has corrupt windows files that I'd like to remove
other data from.  Is there a way or utility that can boot from a diskette
and change the partition to inactive?  My new system uses a raid controller
and if the old disk is hooked up the bios recognizes it ...

This notorious beastie I have hunted and hunted. . .
Does anyone know what application is constantly accessing
the drives (all of them as far as I can tell) at exactly
every X seconds?

I have tried numerous times to add a program in control
panel, but had no luck. I just recently had windows 98 SE
uninstalled and installed, and was trying to put some
programs back into my system.

I backup to a second physical hard drive once a week using a Western Digital
drive copy utility. I notice that after the backup is completed that the
backup drive contains about 5 megs less than the drive that I copied from.
Can anyone shed some light on why? I am using W98SE, all ...

i have a 40 gh drive but windows says it is only 5xgh.
the drive was installed properly. fdisk says 40gh.
a while back i think there was a patch for win98 thst
corrected this problem.  anyone know to correct this.

What's the largest allowable partition size for FAT32?
I heard it's 32gb, but Partition Magic allows creation of FAT32
partitions larger than that. In fact, I just created a 60gv FAT32
partition. Is this safe?