[Ham-Computers] Question abt Win 98

[fkamp at comcast.net]

"Brian K. Gaskamp" wrote:
> 
> Need some help guys, I have a computer here that I'm tackling that has Win
> 98 and neither Scandisk not Disk Defrag will work properly, any ideas?
> 
> Last time any type of AV program was run was like 3 yrs ago, would putting a
> active AV program, or the computer help in any way.

Maybe.  It is for sure something is broken and it may not be the
software.

I would find another hard drive, install it, load win98 onto it, and see
what happens.  Then install the original drive as a second hard disk and
copy any needed data from it before reformatting the old drive.

Regards,
Frank Kamp