My daughters PC, which was running windows 98, recently died. The machine had
one small hard drive which was compressed using drivespace 3.  I need to
recover her college research papers which are stored on this hard drive. I
can take the drive out of her machine and temporarily ...

My CD-RW drive worked just fine until a few days ago.  It recognized all CD-
Rs and CD-RWs , but now
it simply stopped working.  When the drawer is opened, the light comes on,
but when I insert a CD-R or CD-RW I get the message "Q is not accessible.

A couple of spyware searches indicated that the follow file with a font
extension is a severe threat.  It shows the location as
C/windows/fonts/acrsecI.fon.  I have been unable to locate such a file so I
can remove it.   None of the fonts show up with this name.  I haven't

I have a weird issue with my father's old Toshiba Satellite
laptop/notebook with old Windows 98 SE (all critical updates; OEM).
He seems to have problems saving Word 2000 SP-3 (all updates) documents
to an USB flash drive/stick (Lexmar 1 GB; FAT32; E: drive). He had it

 I've recently put a 40 GB drive in an external enclosure with an USB
connection, but have problems with using the drive.
When I try to partition the drive (using the standard W98se FDISK) it comes
back as a a drive of only 6 GB (which probably has to do with the 32

I'm using 98SE on an old AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, hard drive is formtted in FAT32
but i do have an external USB drive that is 200gig in size and formatted in
NTFS, if i plug this into 98SE system will i be able to access it or will i
have to apply some kind of patch?

   From time to time, I come across an article about CD roms, etc.
What I have learned so far, CD-R (I use) is better than CD-RW for long
term storage of important data.  Also, how they are stored can have
a bearing on their "life".

after a voltage down while booting my drive now has the data format RAW.
Also is there a "interupt 24".
What happened and how can it be repaired? Is the FAT or a particion table
damaged?

I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives – 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB
one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and
doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and
reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the ...

  See my original post below.
  The only problem (major problem) with the CD Rom drive is the initial
access when I first insert a data CD rom (or audio CD), even when laptop
is on for awhile and warmed up.  I have to insert it many times before I