I have windows 98. Booted up using the start up disk.
Already went thru the fdisk command. (Have an existing
partition,pressed y, 4>512M) asked the ? do you want to
boot from cd,w/o cd, I pressed cd support. Then,began to

Hi all, I have an SATA 160G HD formatted in WinXP as
FAT32. But everytime I boot up Windows 98 SE it hangs. I
wonder if it is the size of the HD or the SATA interface
that has a problem with Win98. Please help. Thanks

I have an old thinkpad 240x with a pcmcia cdrom. I can't
boot up from the cdrom as without an operating system the
laptop won't see it...so I removed the hard drive from my
laptop and using it as the hard drive on my desk top I

I HAVE WINDOWS 98 AND I WISH TO INSTALL WINDOWS 2000 BUT
THE MESSAGE ON MY COMPUTER TELLS ME I HAVE TO GET AT LEAST
638M FREE DISK SPACE ON THE DRIVE, HOW DO I DO THIS?

I can not defrag my computer i try to and it will not go
passed 0%. help. also i start my computer and my msn keeps
popping up if i x out it comes back. i have windows 98 on
it.

Can anyone help me?
My CD player will not play.  When I insert a CD, it reads:
"data or no disk loaded".
Any help would be appeciated.

I have a problem with my system I can get windows 98 i
just have the wallpaper but not icons or the star bar I
tryed to fixid using the rescue disk but nathing hapend i
just have the error window for IE

I lost my Windows 98(se) CD, but I do have the CD Key,
and I am the one that the disc is registered to.

I read a few posts from people whose Windows original
CDROM had become unreadable.  One easy way to avoid this
if you're adding/repairing bits a lot is to backup the
entire CDROM contents to hard disk (e.g. to a folder

I'm looking to purchase Windows 98SE on a market like ebay
or from another source.  What is the difference between a
full load version and a full OEM version?  Also, once I
find an original full version to buy, how I can determine

After reading a zip disk the properties function always
displays the initial zip disks capacity even though you
have an empty disk in the drive. The Microsoft Backup
program thinks the disk is full and will not write to it.

Need a copy of smartvsd.vxd  referenced in KBA 238811
win98_54.cab file

When turning on computer it asks for boot disk, when i
try an install without formatting i get disk errors. and
at the dos prompt i can only read my A: drive. trying to
read or format my C: gives a bad command. is there any

As the subject line says whats the biggest drive it can
support.  My hard drive died and the shop put an 80GB in
it and i bought Win XP home edition but too many of my old
programs wont run properly with it so want to go back to

I have an alternative PCI IDE controller (promise u100)
which I cannot start win98 from:
The drive is identified correctly by the controller and
autoexec and config.sys are processed correctly.