Computer has an Athlon 1.33 processor, a Quicksiler motherboard
(Compaq) and running Windows 98SE.
Under System Properties > Device Manager there's an exclamation point
next to "Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)" and a red "X" through

Since replaceing my old 20Gb HD which crashed last fall,I
have had a porblem with the new 80Gb HD, running on
Windows98SE. The new HD is a Western Digital Hi Performace
drive. I was able to get my OP system loaded and seems to

I ran an avg virus scan and my computer locked with the
message parity boot. How can i remove this? thanks for any
help.

I installed a slaved 80gig HD because the primary HD had
gotten to small. Win 98 recognizes C drive and the new D
drive but but does not recognize the now e and f cdrom and
cd/rw. The two cds are connected directly to the

I have some problems with this file.  I put a new program
in my computer, and the new program uninstall this file.  
Do I have to install alle the files from Windows ?  Or I
can only install this file

Due to some unexpected complications I had to write zeros
to my hard drive using a tool supplied by western digital
(low level format??) but my startup disk was damaged and
I was unaware of this until I tried, unsuccessfully, to

I set up my computer with a partitioned hard drive, with
win 98 on one partition and xp on the other. For some
reason 98 became corrupt so I decided to re-format that
partition and re-install 98, having done that I now

I am new to this forum so please be easy with me.  I need
a mass storage device driver for (Windows 98 SE).  I have
several USB 16 Mg. flash drives and I want to use them on
my Computer which has Windows 98 SE.  Since my version of

can anyone help me?  Here is the message I am getting when
I try to use the A drive:
you do not have access to the folder 'A:\. See your
administrator for access to this folder

I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer"
version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two
versions of 98, but I might not.
What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have

I've been using an old desktop with 98SE on it to store all
the mp3's I've been ripping from all my music cd's and I'm
running out of space.  I'm wondering if there's a size
limit to an external HD (connected either through USB or

My computer's Bios supports LBA.
Some of the partitions type changed so now I don't know if
a partition is a FAT32 or a FAT32X. What should I do now?

Windows98 doesn't reconize my cd rom drive.  When I
bootup it appears in BIOS but is not reconized in windows.

I have an old (5yrs or so) Quantex PC, which has slowed
right down.  I have formatted the hard disk, and tried to
re-install Windows 98 2nd edition.  It has asked for the
registration key, but i can't find this.  the original cd

I have my first experience of deleting files and needing
to retrieve them, tried buying 'undelete' software to
recover but only works on Windows 2000 and above, I have
Windows 98 ... is there a way of recovering the lost