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Doesn't seem to work... I re-partitioned the space into two parts, and reinstalled Windows 98SE. It still shows the drive space correctly in Windows Explorer, but the recycle bin still shows ~2GB as the drive size. I guess 2GB should be enough space to use (if maxed out to 100%), but I wonder why this is happening. The secondary data partition I had created also shows the same recycle bin space available. Some type of file system thing? Should I have formatted as FAT, instead of FAT32?

I need to remove all traces of a program that has already been installed. Similar to what REVO Uninstaller can do for later Windows. Looking on several different sites, they say the older versions should be compatible, but I get an 'administrator' error message when attempting to start them.

I've noticed other software like 'Zsoft Uninstaller' that does this, but the overall question remains. Is there a program to remove registry/file leftovers from an installed program in Win9x?

Is there a uninstaller program like 'REVO Uninstaller' for Windows 9x systems. I need something that will scan/remove a program's leftover registry entries, or files on the HD. Is there anything like this?

Sorry, I didn't mention that the OSes are installed on different partitions, with the recycle bins configured separately (not GLOBAL). I'm using Grub4Dos as a boot manager.

Are you using the Windows 95 shell? No. I did a "Chubby" install, with the Internet Tools (including IE), DirectX, and a few other misc items removed. The partition has like ~35GB free, and I've set the recycle-bin to the max 2GB (100%) allowed for now.

Windows 98 SE (98lited), and Windows XP SP3.

I seem to be getting a strange error, or bug, that I noticed when I went to set the bin's properties. The partition where Win98 is installed is ~40GB in size, but the recycle-bin says there's only 2GB. This seriously limits how much I can delete, before it starts making permanent removals. Incidentally, the properties of the HD's Win98 partition shows the correct amount of space. Any ideas?

Well since someone else did bump the thread... As far as I know there still isn't a free ISO editor out there. My suggestion to anyone who stumble into this thread is to use IMGBurn to create a bootable disc from the extracted contents of a previous disc, or create one from scratch. You can use disc mounting tools like 'DAEMON Tools Lite', or 'MagicISO', to mount disc images (NRG, CDI, ISO, etc.), and extract them. All of the above tools are GUI friendly, and FREE.

After uninstalling the XP drivers, I installed the 2k ones. The gameport was recognized, but not the PCI audio... After trying to reverse the situation, I kept getting prompts for the Windows 2000 install disc version of files (dll, sys). I'll try out the removal of the OEM 'inf/pnf' files next.

Hi. I already know how to create a real simple set of batch bat/cmd files to run from a disc's 'autorun.inf'. What I'd like to is convert some batch command to an executable , for the selection purpose of starting another executable, opening a folder on disc, or launching an URL. Could someone tell me how I might do this with bat/cmd files, or recommend a program that could create a simple executable capable of doing this? BTW - I would need something compatible with all versions of Windows.

Not one person has an idea why the default game-port (serial), or the sound-card's game-port don't even show in the device manager? The sound-card game port is recognized just fine in previous versions of Windows. Are there any old school users around who might know what's up? I can use USB game pads just fine, btw.

Hello. I recently tried adding a MS Sidewinder Pro 1.0 controller to my soundcard's gameport through the Control Panel's game controller options. The thing is it's giving me an error message: So, I opened up the device manager, but there isn't even an entry for the gameport under the 'sound/video/game controller' tree. I have the very same controller working on the same PC through Windows 98, and 2000. Could this simply be a driver issue? The driver I installed to XP was the 'dsxgxp.exe', from here: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/lsi/download/index.html Does XP simply not support gameport drivers? Because, I can't even get it to recognize the standard gameport on the back panel of the PC either.

I upgraded my installation of the K-Lite Codec pack recently from 6.0.4 to 6.3.0, but the 'Media Player Classic - Home Cinema' is no longer supported. It was version '1.3.2189', so does anyone know what the last version supported by Win2k is?

Hi. I was trying out some anti-virus options for a friend, and encountered these problems. 1.) I installed Avira (free edition), had to many problems with it, and uninstalled it. The problem, even if minor? The 'Security Center' shows 'Avira Solution Pro' as being installed, and 'on'. I've double-checked everything I could think of, but it still wont go away. 2.) I then reverted to installing the stable AVG Free, even if it doesn't have the best detection rate. For some reason it continually deactivates the Windows Defender upon each reboot. Is this really necessary for proper functioning, or can I have a double shield running? In the end I'd like this PC to have a double dose of protection, because of the individual's browsing habits. Are there any programs that will allow this? BTW - It already has a functioning paid version of 'Malwarebytes Anti-Malware', with the 'Protection Module' running.

Hi there. I'm attempting to figure what is wrong with my brother's laptop here. His laptop is a >>Gateway P-6831FX Notebook<<, with a 250GB >>WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0-(S1)<< Western Digital drive. Recently, he had decided to completely wipe his HDD, because a lot of his games were crashing on him. So, I decided to try it for him, and went about to partitioning the drives for him. He wanted a primary for his Vista OS (Home Premium), and 4 logical drives in an extended partition. These were the issues I ran into: 1. The BOOT & BIOS screens show some type of graphical errors. It's like a grid of blue dots overlapping the normal display screens. 2. If attempting to boot from a disc using DOS, or ISOLINUX, as the boot means, all the lettering is slightly garbled. Most letters are off by one alphabet placement -> xorf (xorg), diafonsthb (diagnostic). 3. Won't let me boot all the way into a Linux Live disc. Puppy, and Ubuntu, Linux stop/freeze after the graphics driver selection screen (xorg <-> xvesa). 4. Reinstalling Windows Vista takes waaaaayyyyyy longer than it should, each step where something else needs loaded results in a several minute delay. Boot to Install screen, install screen to formatting screen, formatting, selecting drive to actual install progress screen, etc... 5. Any type of Windows Vista console startup takes minutes to load up -> services.msc, diskmgmt.msc, etc... 6. Windows wont let me create an extended partition, only primary. 7. I downloaded the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS official HDD bootable disc for this model >>here<<, and attempted to run it. It flashes some boot text, and then just hangs without going to the menu. Help please? Any recommendations for diagnosing this?

Well, I'm just reporting back on my results, for whoever may end stumbling into this thread. After deleting the extended partition on disk 1 of 2 (hd0,4), creating a "primary" fat16 partition, wiping drive 2 of 2 (low-level-format), and reinstalling Windows 98 at (hd1,0), the original problem returned. If I boot directly with a primary fat partition on drive 1 of 2, I end up at a command prompt asking for the location of "command.com". In other words, it looks for Windows 98 in what I can only guess as the primary fat partition on drive 1 (hd0,2), instead of drive 2 where Win98 is actually located (hd1,0). And, if I remap the drives at all... map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) OR map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook Windows will hang at where it should load to the desktop, and stays at a perpetually loading screen with the mouse pointer. One thing I noticed was this message: I can't remember if this was present the first time I installed Win98, simply ignored by myself, or not existent. So...I decided hell, why don't I just use the same partition I use for the Windows 2K/XP pagefile? I could live without the benefit of a swap file on the other IDE port... Using the WinXP disk management, I deleted/re-created (hd0,3) as an "un-formatted" partition, re-created my shared partition (hd1,1), re-created an "un-formatted" partition (hd1,2) for Linux, and re-created the swap file partition for Win 2K/XP/98 now on (hd1,3) as a primary fat16. I loaded up Lucid Puppy, used GParted to format partition (hd0,3) as "linux-swap", formatted partition (hd1,3) as "ext3", and installed Linux to the partition (hd1,3). Again using the map commands... map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) OR map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook These caused Win98 to hang, same as above. Without mapping the drives this time, I was able to boot Win98, but only if I specified this command: chainloader /io.sys This didn't work: chainloader +1 Windows 98 detected the Linux partitions, but they showed as "not accessible". I noticed the linux-swap, from drive 1 of 2, was loaded in DOS-Compatibilty mode. But..., the fat16 partition to be used for the swap file (hd1,3) was not recognized. My final best guess, "assumptions", on this matter are: Windows 98 will not load correctly from drive 2 of 2 if there are primary Fatxx, or Linux Extn partitions present on drive 1 of 2. Windows 98 will not work properly if Linux Extn partitions are present on the same drive. Windows ME may, or may not, have less rigid "rules" concerning partitioning compared to earlier versions of Windows. Windows ME may, or may not, have better partitions recognition capabilities than previous versions of Windows. (Stop gap between the "9x" 98, and "NT" XP?) I've reinstalled WinME, and all is back to where I was at. (Without DOS switch booting... )

One last question... How do I do the bolded? I don't know of any disk management that comes with Windows ME, or 98. And, Thanks for all the help.

None taken, and I actually had no idea what I was doing when I started this setup. Kind of a practice thing... I'm unaware of the significance of the head count, but these were both partitioned on the same board. Is there a way for me to manually fix this without losing data? I've tried this, but your scripts gave me this message while running from Windows 2k/XP: WARNING: MAXaddress: 512 is beyond EOF: 0 I understand this is a hex editor, but how does it help me? Editing, or saving, MBR/PBR before restoring? Point taken. I'll do this as soon as I hear back on someone (you?) about the above issues. Thank you.

I had just been using the hide function of GRUB/GRUB4DOS. Should I not? Big oops... I meant "Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0x0B" , and not (hd0,2). I was unable to get the bootsector for the Linux partition, but I've also included my 'menu.lst'. HDH_Record.zip

Hard Drive at IDE 0: Partition num: 0, active, Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type is 0x07 <- this is unhidden Win2K Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type is 0x17 <- this is a "hidden" WinXP Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0x0B <- This is a "hidden" logical Fat32 swap partition (to be used for Win9x?) Hard Drive at IDE 1: Partition num: 0, active, Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0x0C <- This is a Win98 partition Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is fat, partition type is 0x0B <- This is shared primary Fat32 partition Partition num: 2, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x93 <- This is a "hidden" Linux, using the ext3 file system Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type is 0x07 <- This is a logical NTFS swap partition for Windows 2K/XP Possible, but UNlikely, it sounds more like a configuration/install problem. If I tried just reinstalling Windows 98 altogether, could you give me an example of the best method? Assuming of course = 2nd hard drive, with swap on 1st.

This is after I recreated, and reformatted the extended partition on the first drive. I think that when I remap the drives [map (hd0) (hd1)] that somehow it boots off the correct one, but then somehow tries to finish loading off the FAT partition on the first of the two hard-drives. You know because I've heard that Win9x OSes need to be on the first partition of the 1st HD...? If I tried with the partition formatted as a primary drive, I'd get a type in the location of COMMAND.COM prompt. Again, I think it began loading, but would end up trying to finish on the recognized primary partition of the 1st HD. I once again reformatted to the original situation of an extended partition, with no remapping. Now while it'll load, It no longer even detects the partition. This result is from the geometry post marked above. Maybe Grub4Dos's magic isn't powerful enough to make Win98 bootable from a secondary drive, while there's a recognizable partition on the first...? On top of this all, Win98 won't even detect any USB drives plugged into any port, let alone not recognize them.

Yes, I know this, and I've used it before. Which is why I found it strange that my entries that had always been (hdn,4) only worked with (hdn,3) consequently... Maybe from partition corruptions somehow? Excellent idea, and I should have done it that way. Back to the problem, this is what PTEDIT said: The first logical partition from IDE 0 was indeed "Type 0F", and after changing it the problem persisted. Looking at IDE 1, I noticed that partition (hd1,0) was marked as FAT32X, instead of FAT32. Does that matter? What I originally did was create and install Win2K to partition (hd0,0) of IDE port 0, install grub4dos to the MBR, created and installed WinXP to partition (hd0,1) of IDE port 0, and created the logical partition (hd0,4) to IDE port 0. I then added a second hard-drive to IDE port 1, disabled the IDE port 0 in the BIOS, created and installed Windows ME to partition (hd1,0) of IDE 1, create partition (hd1,1) of IDE port 1, created and installed Linux to partition (hd1,2) of IDE 1, installed the Linux's GRUB to the MBR of IDE port 1, and created logical partition (hd1,4) to IDE port 1. From there, I re-enabled the IDE port 0 in the BIOS, and added the appropriate entries. Occasionaly, I'd have to reset the BIOS, because IDE ports would be seen as the other HD (0 <-> 1). This had worked until I replaced WinME with Win98. In all honesty, I may just go back to WinME as I can't even get the 98 to recognize USB drives. I had only wanted the option of being able to boot into DOS...

For some weird reason, this problem has caused my extended, logical, partitions to show up as (hd1,3), and (hd1,3), instead of (hdX,4). I booted up Linux (on hd1,2), and it showed (hd0,4) as unrecognized... So once more, I recreated the logical partitions, both of them. (hd0,4)/(hd1,4) I used this as my Grub4Dos entry: unhide (hd0,0) unhide (hd0,1) unhide (hd0,4) unhide (hd1,0) unhide (hd1,1) unhide (hd1,2) unhide (hd1,4) map (hd0) (hd0) map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook rootnoverify makeactive chainloader +1 And I got this error message: Error 43: The BPB hidden_sectors should not be zero for a hard-disk partition boot sector Okay, I'll try this as soon as I can find a copy.

map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) [b]map --hook[/b] root (hd[b]0[/b],0) chainloader /io.sys I hide/unhide partitions to keep certain OSes from recognizing them. This didn't affect the OS hanging problem though, and it still wont load to the desktop. What'd be the difference, and how would I check? Could it be manually changed if it were?