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| 326169 | 2005-02-18 07:05:00 | The Society I belong to has just been given a computer which has had the hard drive completely cleared. I'm trying to install Win 95 and get this message: "If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, you will need to create an MS-DOS Boot Partition to setup windows". Can someone please help? Thanks Robh |
Robh (7360) | ||
| 326170 | 2005-02-18 07:21:00 | First step is to download a win95B or win98se bootdisk already made up from: http://www.bootdisk.com/ and transfer to floppy. Then boot the computer from this floppy and run FDISK. Remove any dos or non-dos partitions. Create a primary dos partition and make it active, saying yes when it asks you if you want large disk support. Re-boot, and then run FORMAT to format the hard drive with FAT32 file system. The boot disk should also give cdrom support, so you can then proceed to install windows by putting in the CD and typing SETUP. Alternatively you could make a directory called win95 on the hard drive, copy all the files from the CD win95 directory, and then run SETUP from c:\win95. This is much faster and more convenient than installing directly from the CD. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 326171 | 2005-02-18 07:25:00 | try this boot with a win98 bootdisk (you can get one from www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) Dont forget to unpack it) boot your pc with it run fdisk and create a primary partition using all of the disk you may also have to "delete nondos partitions" also. then follow these steps once the pc has rebooted after running fdisk (use the same bootdisk) type in the following commands md c:\win95 c: cd win95 next command will copy the win95 setup cab files to your hard drive copy d:\win95\*.* (where d: represents your cdrom letter) you can eject your cdrom now if you like after the coping has finished setup coping the setup cabs to c: has a couple of advantages, slightly faster install, if you need to use the cabs files for any reason you dont have to hunt out the the install disk |
beama (111) | ||
| 326172 | 2005-02-18 07:30:00 | snap Terry | beama (111) | ||
| 326173 | 2006-05-06 05:17:00 | try this boot with a win98 bootdisk (you can get one from www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) Dont forget to unpack it) boot your pc with it run fdisk and create a primary partition using all of the disk you may also have to "delete nondos partitions" also. then follow these steps once the pc has rebooted after running fdisk (use the same bootdisk) type in the following commands md c:\win95 c: cd win95 next command will copy the win95 setup cab files to your hard drive copy d:\win95\*.* (where d: represents your cdrom letter) you can eject your cdrom now if you like after the coping has finished setup coping the setup cabs to c: has a couple of advantages, slightly faster install, if you need to use the cabs files for any reason you dont have to hunt out the the install disk When I type in 'setup' in the last step, I get the message: "Windows Setup requires 'largest excutable program size' to be at least 429056 bytes to run." Can anyone help me get past this step please? |
FLYBOY!!!!! (7361) | ||
| 326174 | 2006-05-06 05:56:00 | It sounds as though there is a problem with your MSDOS boot disk, it is not allocating enough conventional memory. A typical bootdisk should give "Largest executable program size 563K" or thereabouts. If your boot disk has the program mem.exe on it as it should have, at the A:\> prompt type mem. The memory allocations will then be listed. Where did you get your boot disk exactly? If you downloaded it from bootdisk.com say which one you used, and I'll check it out. Incidently the previous postings, when refering to FAT32 assumed the OS was Win95B or C, not the original version A. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 326175 | 2006-05-06 07:33:00 | I don't know how I did it, but I finally got it to install. Thanks for your help though :) |
FLYBOY!!!!! (7361) | ||
| 326176 | 2006-05-07 02:29:00 | Belatedly, I suspect that the disk just needed a treatment with FDISK. :) Either it didn't have any partition, or had a blank NTFS partition to be removed and replaced with a FAT one. | Graham L (2) | ||
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