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windows98 second edition by melissa
how/where do you find windows 98 second edition to install it ?
March 10th 05 10:25 PM
by Tricia Go to last post
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start up disk by davy Fung
i am using windows ME, my computer is 225 MMX, very slow, i recently infected by spyware, so i wanna format the whole computer, i wanna install Windows 98, but does not have start up disk, but i do have windows 98 installation disk. please help me in this weird situation
March 10th 05 02:56 PM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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win 98 restore by Joseph Flores
my son was given an older computer and i want to delete evryting on the drive and if i can i want to be able to restart the computer with win 98 from scratch with nothing on it. can this be done? Please help. Ireally want to get this computer going for my son
March 10th 05 05:27 AM
by Alan Edwards Go to last post
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Follow-up from the original poster by Chiropter
Thanks a lot for those who tried to help me. Here is the history of what happened next. First, to follow Ben's suggestion, I yesterday downloaded Max Power and tested the problem disk. To my surprise, it passed all the test and thus it appears the disk does not bear any problem as far as Maxtor...
March 10th 05 02:43 AM
by John Dulak Go to last post
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Windows 98 Start up by Frustrated Dad!!
I have a PC that runs Windows 98. My son has deleted some files (he doesn't know which ones) and consequently now when the PC starts up it has an error message on screen "Invalid system disk - Replace the disk and then press any key". I've tried to reinstall Windows 98 but with no success. Would...
March 10th 05 02:32 AM
by Don Phillipson Go to last post
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Windows 98 bootup by wlb
I have an old PC running Windows 98 that I've moved to the basement for my young daughter to play games on. Somehow, she created a password protection that comes up during the boot up process but we don't know what the password is. I can't get past this password and get the computer to...
March 10th 05 01:32 AM
by Jon_Hildrum Go to last post
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win98 ignores my gateway setting by aurgathor
On my local network there are 2 DHCP servers, one good, and one bad I can neither disable nor remove as it's in a switch. I set "gateway" pointing to the good DHCP server, yet Win98 still goes to the bad one and gets its DHCP IP from there. Is there any way to tell Win98 to go to a specific DHCP...
March 9th 05 11:39 PM
by Richard G. Harper Go to last post
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any ideas on how to install an MS-DOS based windows version on by Mal_E
Try using a virtual pc. It should work fine then.. "John John" wrote: Hmmmm. Hard to reply to this. You can boot the OS from almost any device that the BIOS supports. Where the Operating System resides is another matter. John
March 9th 05 07:37 PM
by thunder2232 Go to last post
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corrupt CAB file by aurgathor
I'm trying to reinstall Win98 on my roomate's P66. A long time ago I copied the necessary files to a separate partition, so everything is supposed to be there. However, during setup I get the following: 'Setup has detected a corrupt Setup (.CAB) file.' Argghhhh....!!! Of course, in its infinite...
March 9th 05 03:41 AM
by aurgathor Go to last post
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Slave drive is not recognized by Windows Explorer? by chiropter
My platform is Win 98. Until recently I had no problem to see the content of the secondary HDD (slave, Maxtor) connected to the same ribbon cable as the primary HDD(also Maxtor). Now Windows Explorer does not show the second HDD. I checked Bios which is set to autodetect the secondary (slave) as...
March 8th 05 10:42 PM
by Jeff Richards Go to last post
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formatting a hard disc in windows 98 se by Bob Robinson
after typing format c:/s I get following message. Insufficient memory to load system files- format terminated help
March 7th 05 12:07 AM
by Ron Badour Go to last post
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Generic installer error by witsend
I repaired some windows problems using Norton Utilities 2002 - Norton WinDoctor. When I restarted my computer, I received the following error: Explorer Details: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module EXPLORER.EXE at 0197:00401f31 I have reviewed this forum and already completed the...
March 6th 05 11:41 PM
by witsend Go to last post
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how do you re-load 98 by Brothersid
on a laptop that can only have either the floppy or cd drive in at once? and no setting in the bios for boot from cd?
March 6th 05 07:06 PM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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A puzzler by [email protected]
After repeated queries and replies here I have been connected to the internet on my ThinkPad 770 via a PCMCIA Xircom combo modem/NIC. Only a few days ago I discovered that in the ThinkPad Configuration utility PCMCIA shows that it is turned off. Any suggestions why this still works? Jim L --
March 6th 05 04:38 AM
by glee Go to last post
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WIN98 > WIN98SE by Christopher
I have WIN98 OEM on an IBM Aptiva Desktop. I have WIN98SE OEM on an IBM Thinkpad Laptop. Is there any reason why the WIN98SE should not work on the Desktop ? My reason for asking is that a number of applications seem to have 98SE as a minimum requirement.
March 5th 05 08:27 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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Dual-boot Win 98 + Win 3.1, without 2 partitions? by Chaos Master
Hello. I wish to dual-boot Windows 98 + Windows 3.1, but I don't want to work with partitioning my hard drive. Windows 98 is installed in a FAT32 partition - ~850MB. I thought about the following: - Windows 98 in C:\WINDOWS - Windows 3.1 in C:\WIN311
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March 5th 05 08:23 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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Can not load win98se to HDD by nabe
I formatted one HDD with FAT32 by win2000 PC. Then I tried to install win98se to this HDD. But I can not do it with error message as: "NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart." Then I press key, and message is: "Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk and press enter"
March 5th 05 08:19 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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Microsoft messenger by killjoy
Generally if I am not doing much on the PC my CPU usage is around the 30% mark and remains some what similiar if I close Microsoft messenger. However if I then exit Microsoft messenger from my tray the usage goes up to 90% and stays at that level unless I open it again. Any suggestions ? John
March 5th 05 08:13 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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UPDATE 98 to 98SE - format HD required? by [email protected]
If I use an official UPDATE disk to go from Win 98 to 98 SE, will I be required to format the hard drive, lose data (& software) - or is the update more harmless than that? Thx
March 5th 05 08:11 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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Need help after installing new hard drive by HJobe71h
I just recently put a brand new 40gb hard drive into a relatives computer. Everything seems to be installed correctly but I am having a problem installing windows onto that new hard drive. I hope someone out there can help me. First of all, I can't open the CDROM drive (either one, even have an...
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March 5th 05 08:05 AM
by timetowaste Go to last post
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