I have a c drive and also a (d) drive which is suppose to
be a type of backup called drive image.  could this drive
be used to install xp and have 98se and xp on the same
desktop.  224 ram 500mz pentium 3

Can I re-install my Win98SE utilising the original CD (I have the product
key) without affecting any other previously installed applications and data?
If so how?
tia - Steve B.

I defraged my hard drive and now I just have a c prompt.
When I try and re-install I get a message that I am
missing a file himem.sys.  How do I re installl win 98 ?

Trying to upgrade my laptop HD and copy program (EZGig) comes up with this error and stops.  Have run Scandisk dozens of times both in Windows and DOS.  Windows Scandisk says it's OK now, but DOS Scandisk says there's still one or more invalid long filenames, but can't tell me ...

I am trying to reinstall Windows 98 from MS-Dos.  I have
created a startup disk on floppy and have the original
Windows 98 CD.  When I reboot from the floppy and run
setup.exe from the Windows CD I get the message: Windows

I am unable to run ScanDisk on my Win98 system.  I keep
getting the error message "ScanDisk has restarted 10 times
because Windows or some other program has been writing to
this drive.  Quitting some running programs may enable

Here is my sad tale. I moved my Gateway PC that was
operating beautifully about two miles to a new home. I
lovingly and carefully packed the computer in the
original box using the styrofoam insert. When I got

Hi, all!
I have two pc's, one running XP, the other windows 98.
My flash disk - Speed Drive 64 MB - is running the way it
shall on the XP machine, but my Windows 98 based PC can't

In Windows 2000 and XP, one goes through the system tray and remove it
by telling Windows that you're not using the drive anymore because of
possible data loss. I assume it was the same for 9x, but then I noticed
USB system tray icon was missing. PCMCIA system tray icon exists to ...

After installing WIN98 on this really slow Pentium (r)
computer, I notice it doesn't automatically shut down
when selected to do so.  The screen just shows the
Microsoft Windows98 logo, and at the botom, it

Hi, all
I recently bought a JetFlash 256MB (well, I saw my
colleague with one, and I liked it). However, my home
computer has failed to recognise it, even after proper

i formatted my friends pc and now i need to reinstall w98
for him but i dont have the boot disks. windows was
already messed up before format to do those boot disks.
now when i restart it it gives me invalid disk which i

I had to replace my old hard drive, which waas failing,
with a new one. I copied the partition onto my new hard
drive. Everything works great except when I open "My
Computer" and double click the new hard drive, nothing

A PC running Windows 98 now says Boot Disk failure.
I havent been making any modifications or upgrades to it.
Sometimes it boots Ok but usually crashes.
I tried using a boot floppy but could not get Win98 to boot with cd-rom

Dear sirs:  I would like to copy my windows 98SE program
on an external hard drive (40gb maxtor 300le) through the
use of my cd rom drive my problem is that it only gives
me an option for drive c. My external hard drive is drive