What do you do when Windows 98 tells you "Cannot read or write to Drive D:"?
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You didn't state straight out what type of drive you D: drive was, but you were nice enough to say it's FAT 32 which means it must be a hard drive.\n\n1. Power off computer, unplug everything from it. Open the side of the case. Hold on the the case while making sure that your IDE ribbon is connected to your hard drive. Make that the power is connected. Make sure that the jumpers are in the correct position. Your D: drive is most likely a slave. So make sure the jumper is in the slave position. You can find which is by lookin on the hard drive. Most hard drives show you which jumper is for which setting. If it is on slave try putting it on Cable Select (CS) Put everything back together, restart the computer. Check to see if it can r/w to the drive.\n\n2. Try putting the Hard drive on the other IDE controller with your CD drive and see if it is able to work there.\n\n3. Start computer in safe mode, can you r/w to the drive? If so it's related to start up items or your currect drivers. First try reinstalling drivers to see if that fixes it. If that doesn't try disabling your programs that run when the computer starts\n\n4. Check device manager (right click "my computer" left click properties, click on the device manager tab) Make sure that your driver is properly installed. ( you can do this visually. If there is a question mark or exclamation point or red X on your hard drive, reinstall the driver)\n\n5. Check to see if there are updated drivers for your IDE controller. You can find those on the internet.\n\n6. If that doesn't work try putting the hard drive in another computer to test if it works on that computer. If it works, then the problem is solely with your system. \n\n7. You can try to run sfc.exe. click start>run..> type command click ok. at the prompt type "sfc.exe /scannow" make sure to have the Windows 98 SE disk in the CD drive when you do this. This will make sure that your windows system files are in proper working order.\n\nRecommendations: Please consider upgrading your operating system. Windows 98 SE has so many holes in it. Plus it doesn't support NTFS and it's a 16 bit OS. Plus the OS is getting on 10 years old. (Unix/linux users don't care about how old it is, cuz it will always work) Windows OS's have a relatively short shelf life.
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all the drive is no matter is cd or with rw or dvd or with rw, after you install it, reboot, see if light blink on drive during reboot, (if no, faulty drive) \nafter reboot, if hold alt and click my computer, \n(for xp) go to hardware tab and then device mgr button, \n(for w98) go to device mgr tab,\nif it show a normal cd drive icon(without red circle or question mark), then is a good install, at least cd tray can eject when choose from popup menu.\nif no icon, data cable, power cable and sound cable is installed, then the drive probably is faulty, replace it.
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you need a windows disc. something has happened to you system files on the HD, it might jsut be a cable came out though, have a check when the computer is turned off.
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Try uninstalling the drive using the Device Manager, and then reboot the computer.  When the computer reboots, Windows should detect the drive as "new hardware", and reinstall the drivers for it.  At that point you can try the drive out to see if it has restored its functionality.  If not, my suggestion would be to purchase a new drive to replace your present one.
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Try this -\n\nOpen control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager, then disk drives, double click on your bad drive and click troubleshoot.\n\nGood Luck
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try to reinstall windows .. or format the hard disk and install a fresh copy
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Reinstall the drive and program with a cd if you have one or go to control panel and look for it
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ah newbies :-)\n\nif you dont have anything valuable on your Disk, boot up your computer in Dos prompt or Comamnd Prompt or Safe made then open Command Prompt.\n\nWhen your in there run the command \n"Chkdsk" this will scan your C drive for errors.\n\nif it still doesnt work try "fdisk". Its another utility to help "seperate" them. \n\nIf your not comfortable playing around with your computer, start it up regualry, right click C: (or w/e hard drive) Properies tools, Check for Errors or something along those lines it should be under Defragmat. \n\nCheck "fix automatically" \nIt will say "its in use check disc next time the system rebbots"  click yes\n\nnow reboot, you can expect you computer to be doing this for at least an Hour.\n\ngood luck
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More than likely software.  You might try to download the drivers from the driver makers web site, you if you are in Windows XP, boot from the last known good restore point.  If it is drivers, this should help.  If not, you might try a new software product for writing to the CDs.
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just reinstall windows, and if it happens again you have a bad hard drive or controller... \n\nif you try swapping out the controller with a known working control and it happens again, the problem isn't following the control. continue on by trying a different drive of the same type, problem still happens, you know it's not that specific drive.
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Windows has to address each partition with its own letter. Otherwise, it can't write to the disks.
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1. Wipe harddrive\n2. Install Windows 2000 or XP\n3. Wonder why you didn't do this sooner
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Reinstall windows u can recover.\n\nU havent said what is happening now without giving details of current behaviour giveing recovery ideas is very difficult So pl explain.
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it means you didnt format the drive correctly ,there is no drive or the drive is bad
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The problem isn't the printer, the problem is the operating system.   Windows 98 has horrible USB support.  Either update the drivers though the Microsoft website, or put the printer on a LPT  port.
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Welcome your new friend the B.S.O.D (blue screen of death)\n\nIf the message is saying your HDD is corrupt, then your chances of it working normally is pretty much slim, Your best chance is to re-install your version of Windows...\n\nOr if your using XP, try using the repair function on the disc instead of a full re-install...\n\nhope this helps
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There are a lot of stuff to be said, it could be any:\n- Software Problem:\nError in Windows System Files\n\n- Hardware Problem:\nProcessor over heating\nRAM not working properly\nComputer fans not working properly\nHard Disk Spinning Errror\n\nI recommend trying to repair Windows through the Installation Media Source (the CD) by booting the computer witht the CD, then going into setup mode and choose repair.\n\nOtherwise, try backing up all your valueable data, format the Primary Partition, and reinstall a fresh copy of Windows...\n\nGood Luck