I am running windows 98.  When trying to bootup "scandisk
encountered a data error while reading the FAT entry for
cluster 376832. This error prevents scandisk from fixing
this drive:. The only option I have is to click "OK".

How can I make a Boot or start disc for somone els I am
running windows xp so I presume I need to downlaod
somthing to save onto a floopy???
Thanks for any help......

I have recently reformatted wndws2000 back to wndws98. I
have on floppy disk copies of jpegs/gifs from another
wndws98. They loaded fine when pc I have now was a
wndws2000. But now, I get (A)inaccessible. I go to

Will reformatting a hd overwrite and rebuild the boot sector (MBR)?
thank you!!

I finally got win98 installed on my puter. I was given
this old HP Colorado T3000 tape drive, so I decided to
install it in the machine, since there was an open bay
for it. I don't have the software or drivers for it, so I

I'm trying to rig up a puter to give to a friend to use
for e-mail.  I have this old puter that I had Win 98
running on it at one time.  It got a really bad
infection, and I ended up formatting the HD.  Since then,

i am wanting to make a set of syustem backup floppies for
and old win 98 laptop i need to know how to do that and
if it can be done from the gui ior needs to be dione from
the dos prompt and if frm the dos prompt the command to

I get the above message when booting up.  The system
eventually comes up.  Does anyone know what might be
causing this error?  I can't find anything on the web.

I \'m working on win 98 and my system is down. When I try
to start it up it gives me these two errore 1782 Disk
Controller Failure and 3C301 Keyboard error. What does
this mean and how can I get around it to boot mysystem.

I was seeing my win98 OS and trying to copy my document
folder to other folder.Suddenly the pc stayed without
doing anything , like it was freeze.I power off the pc
and tried to boot it again .it booted , but the graphical

I partitioned 100% and formatted using Win98SE boot disk
from Win2000 OS. After restart it just keeps coming back
to A prompt. I can't get 98SE cd to read it just sits at
the A prompt. I would like to reinstall 98SE any help

I recorded some pictures on a fresh CD using a CD writer
from a Computer. After writing I checked the contents .
All pictures came perfect.
  But when the CD is put on my PC, only  a few portion

This morning, I was cleaning out a few of the unused
files in my computer and I fear that I may have corrupted
one of the necessary files to properly run my computer.
When I restarted it, I received a message reading:

my machine opens to and request that i type comman
interpert to load windows, with a ie (c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
WHAT DO I TYPE?

I have Compaq Presario 1930.
..and OS win98 ....it was unstable, who knows why, so I decided to reinstall
win98...but it seems to be very complicaed this time.
I did "fdisk"....but cannot format c: ????.....it simply won`t do