WHAT HAPPENED
While copying files to the USB hard drive, it froze leaving some files and
folders partially transferred. I deleted those, so they went to the Recycle
Bin. Later when I tried to empty the Recycle Bin, I received this error:

2 days short of three years ago, I posted this is this Newsgroup
"I KNOW that we could avoid these incessant updates if we wipe the slate clean
and start over.
Whistler and Longhorn and any other BC ski-bar wannabe are not the answer

Hi Haggis, the good news is I was able to reinstall the bootit software in my
good WIN98SE portion of the drive. The bad newsis that portion (1820mb
portion, see below for all four of my partitions) still won't take control
and let me make any changes to it. The 13398mb portion ...

When I ran fdisk on a Western Digital 2850. 853 MB from the label.
Fdisk created a Primary Active partition, I selected use all
space, but wind up with 495 MB. Then I tried to create an Extended
partition, - no space.

I have a 1GB compact flash drive that i currently FAT16. If I format it
in a win98(se) computer, will it become FAT32?
If not, how can I change it?
Thanks.

Bill, I came across some stuff you wrote about this a while ago:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/HDD-Support-ftopict184184.html
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YMMV, depending on the BIOS, but 9x shouldn't need drivers to access

Does anyone here use a black WD Passport drive? Apparently the black drives
are somewhat different than the silver drives. Western Digital provides a
download for Win98SE drivers for the silver Passport drives, but not for the
black Passport drives. ("silver" Win98SE drivers don't ...

What's the deal with Web TV and Wavetop data broadcasting?
What about dial-up server?  What sort of functionality does that
enable?  How do I make use of it?
What about Netmeeting or MS chat 2.5?

Ok, I've just finished installing Win98se on this motherboard:
Asrock 775Dual-VSTA
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=775Dual-VSTA
This board has:

I went to use some work files on a CD disk but it wouldn't open. I went to
"My Computer" and both cd drives (D & E) were missing. Went to control panel.
system, device manager and in the hard drive controllers there are
exclaimation marks on both the Primary IDE and secondary IDE ...

I have a Compac win98 machine that I want to run as a public machine in a
senior complex.  Apperently, someone has run the NOGAMES script because even
reinstalling win98 doesn't produce any games.  Is this reversable?

Can anyone help me figure out why the ctrl-alt-del box is in a foreign
language? Also, many other error message boxes are in a foreign language. The
only language I have installed (as far as I know) is english.
I would appreciate!!! any help.

This was a machine I had in a prevous thread, it turned out to have a bad
hard drive.
I replaced it with a unknown hard drive I had, ran fdisk and in creating
the primary partition got the message " not enough room".

When I check quick launch box in taskbar properties menu (control
panel), it fails to respond and I get error message. How can I fix
this and switch to quick launch successfully?

I have just added an Appian Graphics Jeronimo Pro four monitor video
card and my speed for all windows and some other program drop down
menus are extremely slow. I added 1024mb ram memory but it didn't help
much. I had to disable the Intel (r) 82915G Express Chipset Family in