I have just installed a 40GB hdd in my computer on an 80
strand cable together with the existing 4GB hdd.
The POST recognises both drives and, in the table, shows:
Pri master LRG, Mode 4, 3.86 MB

A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got
choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was
forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I
saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the

I keep getting a windows doesn't have enough memory error
when I try to defrag or run scandisk for my D drive.  It
will scan my drive, C and E but not D.  Not even in DOS, I
typed A:\scandisk D: and it says it's the wrong command. I

Using windows 98 on computer. Computer is partially
working and I want to erase whatever I can from the hard
drive (windows explorer not working). How do I do this.

When I insert a CD program in my CD-ROM, my computer
doesn't recognize that it's there.  I went to Device
Manager and there is an yellow circle with an exclamation
point next to where it says:

I asked about a problem with my CD-ROM a few few minutes
ago and got a response, before I do it I want to know if I
just delete the entire item in the device manager and how
do I reboot? Thanks

     With a horizontal mounted HDD, gravity may be pulling
down the heads (top sides of platters) closer to the platter
surface?  If this is true, then a vertically mounted HDD is
better?

I have an computer with NT 4.0 Worstation on it. I wanted
discontinuing using NT and start using Windows 98
instead. I booted to Windows 98 startup disk and
proceeded to FDISK my hard drive. The problem I have is

After a recommended driver update, Scan Disk and Defrad stopped working. I attempted to run a Defrag by another application (System Mechanics) and I get a warning message that it encountered a problem indicating physical corruption on the disk surface. I run System File Checker ...

a drive "U" on C drive became no longer a shared network
drive, when I attempt to make it a shared drive again I
receive an error message "error 2116"
What might be happening? What do I do to "reshare the

I've installed a new, larger hard disk drive and I want to copy the C: drive into the new one.
How can I do it?
Thanks,
LC

       One of my computers is an old Compaq 386 (Dos 6.2
OS) with 40M HDD.  I would replace the 40M HDD with
a 3.2G I recently bought.   I have a "setup" floppy for this
computer.   Due to the BIOS limitations, is there a way I can

Has anyone got a copy they could let me have on floppy to
install cd rom drive on windows 98 please?

My operating system does not recognize the second hard
drive.   The drive was working ok, but now when I start up
it is not showing up in Explorer or My Computer. I am
having problems with C drive but don't know if that is

Hi guys, I have a hewlett packard pavilion pc running
windows 98 which I have re-formatted, but I have lost the
windows product key book and now I cannot set the pc up
Any help is appreciated