A friend of mine has a problem with his PC (Windows 98SE).

When trying to save a file to his floppy disk (drive A) keep getting error message: "Cannot Copy - The disk is write protected - remove write protection or use another disk"

The disk isn't write protected and have tried several disks with the same error.

Also have tried formatting the disk and a similar error message saying the disk is write protected.

Any clues as to why this is happening??

right folks---i am on the verge of throwing this thing out of the windiw---i cannot get XP to load--it hangs and just goes blank----i want top take everything off of it and start again.

how do i do that---the onkly thing i can do is when i press del before it hangs --i get a list of commands---how can i clear it and reboot it form my XP disk?

T

Press f8.(I think)As you restart.Its one of the F`s that much i do know.Ive formatted my drive 3 times in a month..Youd think id remember!.
Then "boot from cd" with xp disk.Follow instructions.Format partition etc.Reinstall.

That is the final solution, but before that it might be worth (a) selecting safe mode after pressing F8 and doing what I suggested above, and if that doesn't work, (b) taking out the Matrox card, replacing the original graphics card, and trying to boot like that...

Nah!Chuck it out of the window.Its empowering;-)

... and then chuck it out of the window :-)

Treble

The problem I had with the G200 card sounds similar. It would freeze my machine as XP was loading at the point where the XP screen first comes up and says something like "welcome to windows XP" or "loading windows XP" with the blue logo screen. At that point it would just stop and freeze the machine. To retrieve the situation, each time, I would power off, replace the G200 with my trusty G550 and reboot (as Kayak suggested above). That worked and XP would load up fine but tell me that it had recovered from a major error. After the first time it did this and before I did anything else I did a full system back up and set a restore point on XP. I tried reloading the drivers from the disc and from the matrox website but couldn't get it to boot up with the G200. I don't know if its something to do with conflicts or problem with one being a pci and one being an agp?? I was willing eventually to write off the card as an "oh well I got it very cheap, never mind" experience and decided to go for the new three screen P750 which I will fit this weekend. I'll let you know how it goes. I was only going to use the G200 for three screens and thought that may be part of the problem? Who knows. Anyway, it was more hassle than it was worth for me, it was occupying too much time and mind space.

Hope you get it sorted.

Rob

PS I think foale had a problem with his G200. Don't know if it was the same problem or if he fixed it but he might be worth a try.

robb--cheers--i have taken my PC into work and have set our techies loose on it :-)

T

Treble - Well? Haven't they fixed it yet?!?

Help required please....

lost mouse driver on win 2000 pro have it in safemode but how do i move across to the hardware section in the mouse properties i now how to move it in the buttons mode but want to reinstall driver mind has gone a blank can anyone help....

tia
Rick...

From a Right Click at My Computer
Select Properties
Open Device Manager
Open Mouse
Select Mouse
Select Remove
Reboot the computer and Windows should find the mouse and reinstall a generic driver.

DocProc

Thanks for all help dont ask me want went wrong but it is going OK...:-)

Rick...

When my PC loads up, I get an error telling "support has encountered an error " and has to close - I have taken the "send report to Microsoft" several times which I assume is like p*ssing into a black hole. Other than the error message, everything else seems ok - any suggestions please?
Windows XP home.

Skinny

hi everyone,
i am running windows 98/2nd edition, while i am online and with only 2 windows open my memory is decreasing all the time until programs stop working properly and i have to re boot. Has anyone any idea what causes this to happen?

thank you
peter

when i say memory, i mean system resources

extrovert, that is just an unfortunate feature of Windows 98. The only solution is to upgrade to 2000 or XP which don't suffer from the fixed limit on resources.

thanks for the prompt reply kayak, i have previously had 4-6 windows open including d4f and money am and have usually had 45-50% system resources left which is why i posted. The problems seemed to start once i had used the spy bot programme.

Thanks
peter

extrovert

In 'Run' near the Start button type

MSCONFIG

and then click on OK

Up will pop a window with a 'Startup' tab.
Click on it and then tell us what you have on there which has been selected with a tick and are running as programmes in the background.

It's some of these background programmes that need to be shut down to conserve your operating resources.

hi DocProc,
programmes selected

msnmsgr
scanregistry
taskmonitor
systemtray
loadpowerprofile
creative launcher
criticalupdate
loadqm
icsmgr
incd
avg_cc
loadpowerprofile
schedulingagent
SAgent2ExePath
truevector
dkservice
Avgserv9exe
Zonealarmpro
epsonstatusmonitor2
microsoftofficestartup

thank you
peter

extrovert, I agree with kayaks comments above there is probably not much you can do with w98, however if you have a very samll amount of RAM say 128K or less it may be worth adding some more, it wont cost much and it may put of the day when you have to upgrade.

thanks spaceman i have 320MB of RAM