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Ah, bummer. I guess I'll let this thread stagnate until someone comes up with a solution.

Yes, it has brush/pen/erase, etc. tools

Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop 7 work.

Hello, The first thing I would recommend is to try doing a virus scan with an Antivirus program. You may have gotten a virus that is interfering with your Internet Connection. If that doesn't work, try everything below: Are you able to access the internet by just running standalone Internet Explorer? If that does not work check your Internet Options by going to Tools>Internet Options>Connections Tab. Make sure your connection settings are correct and "Automatically Detect Settings" in LAN Settings if you are using a LAN connection and click Setup to setup a new Internet Connection to make a new Dial-Up or LAN connection. If you access the internet through a proxy server, be sure to enter the correct settings for that. Otherwise click "Automatically Detect Settings". If that doesn't work, make sure connections to secure sites can be made by enabling SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, and TLS 1.0 in the Advanced Tab in Internet Options. If not try a different browser and see if that works. If it still doesn't work check your Internet to make sure everything is connected properly. Check all cables to see if they are connected properly, and make sure everything is plugged in (Cables, Modem, Router etc.). If it still doesn't work contact your ISP.

Has any recalled getting the On-Screen Keyboard (OSK.exe) v1.0 from WinME (yes it comes with WinME) or Win2000 working in 98SE? I have a friend that has disabilities. Here is a screenshot of it on WinME: I have tried to port it myself by taking MSSWCH.DLL and MSSWCHX.exe and OSK.EXE/OSK.CHM/OSK.HLP from a Windows ME installation and putting them in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and using KernelEX (Setting compatibility to WinME/Win2000 mode on OSK.EXE and MSSWCH.DLL and MSSWCHX.EXE), and registering MSSWCH.DLL with regsvr32 msswch.dll but it says a corrupt version may be in memory. I tried it with the KernelEX mode to normal and disabled but it still says a corrupt version may be in memory. I ran OSK.exe with normal mode and disabled mode and WinME/Win2000 Mode and it just says the program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. KERNEL32.DLL seemed to be causing the problem.

Thumbnail Preview doesn't work on 98SE

Sysmon link is dead.

So I'll just install 95. Thanks anyway.

he should be able to put the 4 "broken" CD-ROM drives into the other computer to verify that they truly are broken. We are assuming that he will be careful that they will be plugged into an appropriate cable and that the jumpers on the HDDs and the CD-ROM drives will be set to not conflict in any way. Cheers and Regards I put the 4 CD-ROM drives in the other computer and they worked perfectly. It must be a problem with the other computer.

I will look into that.

But seriously guys, this thread is supposed to be about 98 on floppy disks, not copying anything over an HDD or CD-ROM.

I took out the HDD and put it in another computer and it totally messed up. I tried to put it back in the other computer and now it can't even READ the drive. Also who said this was a laptop?

He may also need to disable "Silent Boot" or similar settings that would hide that list, especially on OEM computers. I don't have that in my BIOS..

I went through 2 used drives before I finally got one that worked. I wanted to replace it with the exact same model that was previously installed. 3rd time was the charm. Did you make sure that the jumper pin was in the correct position on the back of the CD-Rom? CD-Rom trouble shooting guide http://www.techadvice.com/tech/c/cdrom_ts.htm Jumper Pin settings http://tips4pc.com/articles/computer%20troubleshooting/how_to_set_jumper_pin_settings_o.htm Yes.

Good. Before reflashing the BIOS, you can try resetting it (with a jumper or by removing the battery) and then reloading the BIOS defaults. If you previously added the CD drive to the same cable as the HDD, the HDD may not have been jumpered correctly to allow the controller to see the second drive. If you previously attached the CD drive with a separate cable to the secondary controller connector, you can try putting it on the same cable as the HDD. The first goal would be to get both drives to be detected and show up in the BIOS setup. Then when you are booting to DOS, they should also both show up in the hardware summary screen just before DOS begins to load. Did any of the CD drives ever get detected and show up in the BIOS setup or in the boot summary? I got my BIOS flashed and it still doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive.

Your CD drives may be just fine--it sounds like the controller is disabled in the BIOS or you have a bad cable. Now (before you install a new system) is a very good time to revisit your BIOS settings and check all the hardware cabling. In BIOS, make sure both IDE controllers are enabled and then have them autodetect the attached drives. I recommend putting the HDD and CDR on different controllers (different cables) both jumped as Master. Use new cables if you have any. If you only have one good cable, you can put both drives on the same cable. Put the HDD (jumped as Master) on the end connector and the CDR (Slave) in the middle. You will be much happier with this system once you get it running if it has a working CD drive! I checked my BIOS settings and everything is fine. I am 99% sure this is a good cable because it is a brand new one that I bought off eBay. I am probably going to have to get my BIOS flashed..

But have you SHOUTED at them hard enough? jaclaz I looked at that FAQ and tried everything but nothing worked.

I cannot replace my CD-ROM drive because I have tried to replace it about 4 times with 4 different drives and the drives had never wanted to work.

Like I said in my original post, please don't ask me to get a new CD-ROM drive. If you can't come up with anything constructive please don't answer.

Well like I said, my CD-ROM drive broke. I don't know a way I would be able to read the CD.

I recall hearing that Win98 (Build 4.10.1998) was made available on 39 DMF-formatted floppy disks. Do you know anywhere I could get them other than ordering them from Microsoft? (You can't do that anymore) My CD-ROM drive broke. Please don't tell me to get another CD-ROM drive. I'm really disappointed with people that keep asking me this.

Well I use something called Norton Ghost 2003. It creates and saves backed-up partition images as a .GHO extension. You just open Ghost and choose that file to backup from (From Image) then it will overwrite the entire C: drive (or wherever you have Windows installed) with the partition copy within the image (You can see what is in this image with Ghost Explorer which is included). Just remember to save this to a removable media such as a CD/DVD, floppy, etc. just in case something goes wrong on the hard drive. You can create a bootable CD. If it doesn't work, boot into DOS and run Ghost. The application runs in both Windows and DOS. For better results run Ghost in DOS because if you run it in Windows it doesn't automatically reboot your system and sometimes when you exit, you can get a BSoD and sometimes when you reboot you get invalid system disk. When you try to reinstall 98SE, ScanDisk will throw up a bunch of errors that the files are corrupted and the file size is incorrect which it can fix, but you have to endlessly click the Fix It button, which takes time. Even if you use the /is switch when running the setup program it will still throw up errors saying that setup cannot run until these errors are fixed. If what I just explained happens then boot to the DOS prompt then run the backup from there. You will still be able to run the program because the errors only apply to the files in the \WINDOWS and \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories most of the time. I hope this helps.

Thanks for info!

Motherboard: ASROCK 775i65G R3.0 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce3 TV Tuner Card: ATI-TV Wonder Pro Will it run? Thank you!

If I can remember correctly, I believe you need MDAC 2.8 SP1 and WMI 1.5 installed. It works but it says "Restoration Was Unsuccessful" whenever I try to restore.