My computer keeps on telling me that there is no memory
free on the hard drive when there is about 190MB free (six
year old computer). The copmuter fluctuates in recording
how much memory is free, sometimes recording the accurate

Hello, there!
I am looking for some advice, due to a panic situation unleashed by
myself... :(
I used to have two partitions on a 20 Gb hard disk:

I'm using 98 se and was trying to use scan disk and disk
defragmenter. neither will run to completion. i ran the
defragmenter for over 2 hours and it never got over 1%
complete. they both seem to start and then restart after a

    I have an older Gateway notebook with 2G hdd.  Lately, every once in
awhile,  I hear a "whine" noise which last for about one to four minutes, then
it becomes quite.  By the sound, you might think that the motor's bearings
may be worn?  Then the hdd runs normal again for a long ...

Hi,
    This may be a dumb question, but i can't seem to find the answer
anywhere.  I've seen on some cd's that have a boot sector on them that
they have the ability to continue the boot order (by bypassing the

I bought this computer a year ago and upgraded from 95 to
98 and had stuff from my old computer transferred over.  I
was told that after I paid for the 98 upgrade all of the
files I needed would be on my hard drive however backup

all of a sudden my new menu has dissapeared so i am unable
to create any new folders can someone tell me how i can
get it to come back

Hello, there!
I am looking for some advice, due to a panic situation unleashed by
myself... :(
I used to have two partitions on a 20 Gb hard disk:

I've left this going for several hours but the status bar
remains on 0%.
Does anyone have a reason for this?

I would be grateful for any help or information you could
give me.
My computer is refusing to recognise the floppy disk drive
and a message comes up that reads "Disk utility locked".

I ran ScanDisk on my External Hard Disk Drive after the
deframenter program gave me "Error ID# DEFRAG004", and
told me to run ScanDisk. ScanDisk found errors, fixed the
errors, but created 3 folders named DIR00000, DIR00001, &

Have a BenQ CD-RW that was workingg okay until I viewed
some clip art.  Also have an Iomega external USB CD RW and
both worked okay for past two years running 98SE.  
Went to upgrade to XP Home and got a error message.  Was

I Am running on Win98 with a Maxtor 13Gb hard drive and I
keep having to burn files on CDs to make room so I finally
decided to get a second hard drive. I bought a Maxtor 120Gb
hard drive and installe it as a slave for extra storage. My

Problem: added a second 3.5" drive. Looks good in BIOS.
On boot-up floppy seek lights up each briefly as
expected. Stopping in DOS, both can be read - one A
drive, other B drive. Going into Windows 98 SE, only one

My hard drive is partitioned into 1.95G chunks because of
BIOS limitations.  I have copied stuff originally on C to
other drives, I have "disk cleaned up", defragmented, etc,
and avoid adding anything to C.  When I add up the size of