My computer runs Window 98 and has a second removable hard drive (d:) used
to store daily backups.
Recently I attempted to install Window XP Home on my removable drive (larger
and faster then the main drive c:) as I wanted to slowly and without

Is it possible to access wherever Scandisk stores its information on bad
areas of disks to delete that information? I suspect that when I bought a
new hard disk a little while ago and transferred all my data to it, the copy
program I was using caused a write error to one area of my ...

Can u pls give me steps to reinstall W98SE.  I've backed up everything.  
Issue: do I quick format C: before running install CD?  Problem: I run
install disk (setup), after in completely finishes, PC restart and no change.
I'm not being given option to save/not save system files. ...

Well, I have been having some issues with a computer that I have here. I run
the setup command and the first welcome to windows box pops up. Choices are
to exit setup or to continue. I click continue and the bar goes all the way
to 100 percent and just hangs there.

I've got what seems like a rather elementary problem, but I can't seem to
think of the answer.  I'm trying to make a hard disk bootable, but this hard
disk is not intended for this system.  I'm trying to prepare it to go into
another system.  Unfortunately, I can only use the ...

I have an old dell with windows 98 se i'd like to clean out the hard drive
and re set it to when the factoy shipped it to me, i have all the orginal
programs and disk that came with it. How could i accomplish this.
Thanks

I'm volunteer in an association which offers accesses to two Win98
boxes connected to Internet. Theses machines have been setup few years
ago, and there's now no documentation available on their setup :(
I would like to install Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0 (they have an

Using win 98 on computer that had never been on internet. Used a British
Telecom CD to download boardband drives. Went throught set up proccedure O.K.
Untill Internet Explorer6 popped up saying  look for a newer verison ,
update. yes or no . preesed Yes. 30 seconds of waiting ...

I have 'inherited' an old Gateway PC with Win98 installed it. I also
have a Win98 SE Updates disk from when I had an AMD K6 machine.
When I try to update the Gateway with the update disk I get a message
telling me that I my operating system is already updated! It isn't, I

Whenever I boot my computer, a window appears that reads "RTLDI.EXE will
terminate." What is this ? Where did it come from ? How do I get rid of it ?

Our local school was getting rid of all its old computer equipment and
donated one to the pre-school that I help with. I have a problem with
it in that I can't change the screen resolution.
It's a 1GHz Celeron running W98 release 2, so it's not desparately old.

My friend asked me to format his computer, so I did but he is missing his
Authenticity Code. Is there a way for me to find it on the CD or am I in big
trouble? I cant continue setup without this code.

trying to boot up 98se, just when windowpane screen pops up a seconds later I
get kicked out of windows and back into dos. the following message appears:
rem ***** the following line was added by add_path *****
set PATH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:PROGRA^1\ZIPGEN^1\

So I reinstalled the "System Tools" option from the windows second edition CD
and everything seemed to go smoothly. At the very end, I saw some error
"..rundll32", but I had seen such errors earlier and they were automatically
fixed upon restarting, so I did not think much of it. ...

I've formatted the hard drive on my old computer to reinstall win98 but find
that I've lost my product key. Has anyone any ideas on how to overcome this
problem? I would very much appreciate a swift response because I'm passing on
the pc to a young nephew who is anxious to get ...