What sort of updates have you installed? Have you updated to Internet Explorer 6? There is a known bug there.
http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm
https://msfn.org/board/topic/84451-98-fe-98-s … shell32dll-fix/

Does the same problem occur if you use XCOPY from a command prompt? (You can try booting Puppy Linux from a CD and testing that way, alternatively.)

Jorpho wrote on 2021-06-29, 04:47:

What sort of updates have you installed? Have you updated to Internet Explorer 6? There is a known bug there. http://www.frankpr […]
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What sort of updates have you installed? Have you updated to Internet Explorer 6? There is a known bug there.
http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm
https://msfn.org/board/topic/84451-98-fe-98-s … shell32dll-fix/

Does the same problem occur if you use XCOPY from a command prompt? (You can try booting Puppy Linux from a CD and testing that way, alternatively.)

The updates I installed are the main updates from unofficial service pack 2.1a and win98 plus from winworldpc. Ironically, when I just now pulled up the "about internet explorer" to check the version number, the window popped up and the whole system immediately froze up. Running IE 5 still so that may not be an issue at the moment. DMA is enabled for both HDDs and is it possible this could be the system overheating or something?

reddbust wrote on 2021-06-29, 04:58:

DMA is enabled for both HDDs and is it possible this could be the system overheating or something?

Like I said: if it's a hardware problem, the way to be sure of that would be to eliminate Windows 98 from the equation. If you think DMA is at fault, then you should be able to disable that in the BIOS.

If a hardware problem is a possibility, then checking the motherboard for bulging and/or leaking capacitors is easy to do.

Jorpho wrote on 2021-06-29, 14:07:

reddbust wrote on 2021-06-29, 04:58:

DMA is enabled for both HDDs and is it possible this could be the system overheating or something?

Like I said: if it's a hardware problem, the way to be sure of that would be to eliminate Windows 98 from the equation. If you think DMA is at fault, then you should be able to disable that in the BIOS.

If a hardware problem is a possibility, then checking the motherboard for bulging and/or leaking capacitors is easy to do.

So a quick update I disabled DMA on all drives then restarted and tried doing the copy like normal again but the system still froze so I will check the motherboard for swollen caps and try if xcopy freezes too.

Does it freeze when you do a copy from the hard drive to somewhere else on the hard drive? i.e. exclude any other drives.

Another thing I would be checking is memory; it's often the cause of random freezes and glitches - give memtest86 a run and see if you have any errors show up.

megatron-uk wrote on 2021-06-30, 08:09:

Does it freeze when you do a copy from the hard drive to somewhere else on the hard drive? i.e. exclude any other drives.

Another thing I would be checking is memory; it's often the cause of random freezes and glitches - give memtest86 a run and see if you have any errors show up.

I have ran memtest86 from hiren boot cd and let it run for about 3 hours and it passed all tests for memory without errors. I will try copying directly from 1 drive to another to see if anything works and also as stated in a previous reply, the syustem also froze when viewing "about internet explorer" when the window popped up the system immediately locked up.

I would possibly also suspect the unofficial service pack. I used to use one of the older ones back in the day and only did the official MS updated but don't remember if that was the whole main updates or not.

Now I just use the 2004 MS update CD available on vogonsdrivers.com

That and the drivers and NUSB.

The newer unofficial service pack will completely trash a bunch of stuff and can also cause super major file transfer issues.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-07-01, 01:32:

I would possibly also suspect the unofficial service pack. I used to use one of the older ones back in the day and only did the […]
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I would possibly also suspect the unofficial service pack. I used to use one of the older ones back in the day and only did the official MS updated but don't remember if that was the whole main updates or not.

Now I just use the 2004 MS update CD available on vogonsdrivers.com

That and the drivers and NUSB.

The newer unofficial service pack will completely trash a bunch of stuff and can also cause super major file transfer issues.

You have a point about the official service pack. I tried mini windows xp from hirens boot cd and tried doing a file transfer and the system had no freezing issues and when installing win98 before drivers I tried doing a file transfer and the system didn't have an freezing.