I was attempting to do a backup and after going to accessories>systems
tools>backup, I get a message stating that the backup.lnk is missing.  I
tried to find the file and could not.
1.  Where did it go?

I was deleting some of the File Types under folder management today and came
across My Documents. It didn't appear to have much significance to me so I
deleted it. Well, when I was done I looked on my desktop and the My Documents
open folder was there, but it had no name. It was ...

The floppy drive installed on my PB platinum has died so I have installed a
USB floppy drive.
I now want to restore my factory settings and need to insert the boot disk
at start up. Unfortunately my computer still tries to read the old drive and

When I run scandisk and defrag my computer locks up. Windows 98se. I tried to
run scandisk in safe mode and got a meessage that scandisk ghad to restart 10
times because another program was writing to the disk. but everything was
shut down and I was in safe mode. Can anyone help ...

While doing maintenance, I did the "Disk Cleanup" button, and it
showed me a bunch of files in the IE Content folder, which I deleted
manually through Windows Explorer instead of letting "Disk Cleanup" do
it.  Now it ("Disk Cleanup") doesn't work.  So how do I use the

Folks,
I have a msi 48x16x48 cd rom.
i seem to be having some trouble with it which, in hindsight has been
occuring for some time.

Both my cdroms no longer display files from explorer. If I put in a cd, it
know there is one there but does not display files. If I start in dos mode I
can see the files.

I royally messed up my Works2000 and cannot remove nor reinstall it, and
cannot install a new Works program because it detects the old one. Can I
delete the folder from CPQDRV without messing up anything else and would this
remove all traces of Works2000?

    One of my HDDs (Quantum 1.2GB) has a bad controller.  Is it possible
to use a controller from another Quantum HDD so I can recover data?
               Thanks in advance,   Brad
 Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,

Hi, I have an USB-drive (1.0), partitioned one primary FAT32, one
extended with NTFS. am using the NTFS-section for backups. Wished to
convert this partition to FAT32, so I can use backups also on DOS-based
systems.

I  bought a used Toshiba notebook that had Win98 on it and it worked fine
for several weeks. Recently I started having problems during boot-up that
kept getting progressively worse. It finally got to the point of not loading
98 at all, with error messages stating various files ...

I had command Anitivirus which i removed and installed Mcafee version
4. while installing Mcafee i was told to create a emergency disk(for
booting in a virus free environment in case of a outbreak)and
afterwards during completion of the installation i was told to test

Microsoft gave away, to some members of the "Partners" program, a USB
Pen Drive.  The drive identifies itself as "USB DISK 20X".  For anyone
looking for drivers for this USB flash drive with Windows 98, these
drivers and additional supporting software for this drive may be found ...

I have been trying to help a friend who has just bought a Dell computer with
(apparently) one IDE header which support 80 wires, while the other supports
only the standard 40 wires.
He has bought another identical ATA 133 disk to complement the one that came

I am trying to fdisk a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 120Gb ATA/133 HDD.
I boot the PC with a Win98SE boot disk and every time I run fdisk it gives
me a maximum value of 51Mb
How can I get the full amount capacity??