It depends on what format the system restore is in...
You can pull the hard drive and with an adapter stick it into another PC and copy the files over.
You might just copy the I386 folder (assuming...

Mike...
From your description someone did dump some of your files to a floppy...

So... Time to think about security...

Hopefully nothing more than embarassing and not something that will get...

That machine is not fast enough for smooth playback of DVD video and audio..

You will get a variety of opinions as to how fast it must be but that is also based on what video card you are running,...

Run scandisk then defrag...

Glad you got it working

I know I am comming into this conversation a little late..
Does this machine have a cd burner?

Do you have access to broadband?

If so I would suggest you download a copy of knoppix or mepis so...

You are quite right...

Serves me right for posting at 5am...

:)

You can use a PCMCIA card ... I use a flash card with a PCMCIA adapter which will show up as an additional drive in the OS or you can use a network connection to another machine. There are some...

Some older systems cannot boot from the CD-Rom.

Check this by going into your BIOS/CMOS setup and see if it will let you select the CDRom as the first boot device.

If not...

You can boot...

I dont want to make his old drive operational and export the emails...

I have it slaved onto one of my test systems and wanted to find the name of the file to copy to the new system.

Can someone give me the filename where I can find email.

A guy brought me his old drive and wants his emails saved to a disk so he can put them back into his now clean system.

Is there any...

Chris...
Driver downloads are feee....
You just need to own the hardware for the supplied drivers...

Many of the new video cards require direct X in order to work.

I would reinstall Direct X as well as the original drivers.

Try booting the CD to a command prompt and doing everything again...

How did you get to DOS Mode?
(That is the only thing I see you might have done wrong)

The way I read the original post is that this is a new computer and a new 100 gig hard drive.

Each partition must be formatted (Full Format)
At least the first time...

If there is any doubt,...

If these are newer machines that will allow you to boot to a USB device I would put the 98 setup files on a memory stick...

Go to driverguide or do a google for...

Diskonkey_Win98_Driver_Installer.exe
(or just DiskOnKey)

It is 1.4megs and will fix the problem

98 does NOT have drivers and most memory sticks were...

If you go into display, appearance and there are schemes you cam select windows large and get bigger fonts and icons. I use it myself.
I can give you a line by line walkthrough as I am on an XP...

You must format all partitions at least once..

You can use a program like Partition Magic which will work inside windows and it can format those for you faster than dos format or even normal...

If you are going to the trouble of reinstalling the OS you need to do a full format and not a quick/fast format

If you want to save some time...
Copy the win98 folder and its' contents to the...

Anything for working with CD's...?

WInISO or ANY other Image/burning tools?

I have seen three drives like this in the last 3 months.
All users were running software that creates ISO files from CD.
(Not all the same programs)

Have you installed anything other than...

It looks to me like he needs to boot the cd and let it find the existing OS on the hard drive and not boot the OS on the hard drive then insert the CD..

Yes, it will delete everything on the drive.

No sympathy for people that never back up...

You can recover documents, and music files and other archives of uninstalled programs... You cannot...

DMR... at this point he is locked out...

The way to fix this is to go into safe mode on power up using F8...

It will default to a freq that will work.

Lower the video freq settings and...

It would help if you said what OS you are using or what type of cards that card reader takes...

I have seen generic card readers that handle 7 or 8 different cards and they are $5 to $10 ...

It...

You want SIMPLE...
Ok,
The cleaner you installed is MOST LIKELY something that needs to be cleaned.

Get...
Ad-aware
Spybot
and keep them updated...
Get...
Zone Alarm (Free version is fine)

Start - Run - Sysedit

Will also get you into the config.sys file....

Did you try to install a camera?

Do a copy and paste of your config.sys file here but this should be an easy fix...

I have seen this several times.

Windows does not autodetect it...
Device manager cannot find it...

Have you checked to make sure the CMOS is set as a plug and play OS...?

Have you checked...

Is this a 3com network card or 3com modem...?

What are you running for firewall, spyware, adware...

What browser are you using...

Have you checked to see if the 3com is sharing an interrupt...

You may have a drive going bad or a conflict (IRQ) on the IDE interface.

A quick fix might be...

Boot to a floppy with cd drivers...

c:\
md win98
copy c:\win98\*.* c:\win98\*.*

Save the dual boot until th next time you install windows...
Then it is no big deal to create a partition using Fdisk, install 98 first and install XP second... The install program of XP will ask...

The only downside to killing off all apps except explorer and systray is for people on broadband...
If you kill off you firewall, spyware, adware, anti-virus to defrag...
You could leave the door...

Yes, you can tell it NOT to save settings on exit

Yep, that bios boot sector virus protection will get ya every time...
Glad you got it working

Tough question to answer...

My base system XP is 4 gigs...
That is OS plus Office, Browser, IRC, and basics..

If you are playing with DVD's you could quickly lose 7 to 10 gigs and they are not...

I think the key here is that the files need to be converted to MP3's
I dont know of any player that will let you put in a audio CD and just drag and drop them to your MP3.

They need to be...

At one point in time I remember a virus that attacked all downloads ...

Have you done a scan recently?

For some reason it did not do anything to uploads...

If you have an account on yahoo or...

Generally you would go into CMOS and tell it to boot to the CD first...

Some older equipment may not boot to the CD and would require a boot floppy with CD drivers...

Thanks Caperjack...
I tried to make it simple....

You do not need a new hard drive.

Does you computer boot to the 98 CD?

Do you know how to get into the BIOS to make it boot to the CD first