purchased linksys wirless card. the computer came w/ win
98 installed.  no original disk, only a master recovery.  
keeps prompting me to insert 98 cd-rom, but i have no
original disk. is there a way to fix. prompts say that

I HAVE WINDOWS 98 AND CAN NOT FIND THE SYSTEM TOOLS. I
WENT TO START, THAN PROGRAMS, THAN ACCESSORIES AND IT WAS
NOT THERE. I WANT TO CLEAR UP SOME DISK SPACE AND RUN THE
DISK DEFRAGMENTER.  I CAN'T FIND THEM. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Are there any files located in the temp folder that
should not be deleted. I've got 250meg of files in that
folder. Are they just taking up valuable space? Thanks

i was typing my dissertation for uni when i accidently
clicked onto save icon instead of save as icon which
overrode a different file that i was working on and has
now caused me to lose a considerable amount of work.  is

Does anyone know how to get a Windows 98 Startup Disk that
Supports FAT32? Someone gave me a drive that has been
FDISK'd and I can't boot from the 98 CD.

I have an old computer (circa 1998) with zip drive, no CD.
I use zip disks for routine backup. If my hard disk
craters, and I buy a new computer, it would not have a zip
disk reader (Am I correct?), but would have CD write/re-

I bought an old computer(99) that was never used(Compaq).
When I turn it on, the Windows 98 logo appears for a few
seconds and then it jumps into a DOS screen. It says that  
a file is missing that is needed.  Reload Windows. I have

Have a floppy disk drive that a computer running Win98 (P133, 64MB) will not
recognize.  At start up the drive is not recognized, however, the drive
light remains on all the time.  I installed another floppy drive that I know
is a working drive, but it still will not recognize it.  ...

I have been running surface scan for the past 10 hours
and have only gotten thru 2,800 clusters out of a total
of 1.2 million.  So far I have 195 bad clusters. 1) Is
there a way to speed up the process so that the computer

I am having alot of problems with my comp. and would like
to format my hard drive and reboot windows. I need to know
how to do this.

I have 2 Hard Drives( 6 GB and 20 GB ) attached to my old
win 98 SE computer. I dont use this computer much and
Both are clogged with junk so I want to erase both and
then reinstall windows later. I need to know how you

Are there any Microsoft people with intimate knowledge of NTFS/FAT32 in  
here?
I'm wondering if it is possible to literally chop a big file into smaller  
files, instead of copying data from the big file into smaller files and  

I'm trying to add a 40 gig hard-drive to my Windows 98
(first edition) system. The system only seems to be
recognizing 8 gigs of space and relegating the remaining
32 gigs as "bad memory." I know there's no problem with

i've created a 2G primary partition on my harddrive starting at a linear
location of about 36G. i can't get a drive letter for this under DOS. i've
tried editing the partition table so that it is the only partition listed
and dos still won't assign a drive letter. i've created other ...

Under the Window Explorer Properties in Wndows 98, for a
folder in the harddisk, the size stated 114MB (119,994,996
bytes), 132,939,776 bytes used.  Could anyone explain why
there are 3 numbers and what do they represent and which