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| Thread ID: 52479 | 2004-12-20 04:41:00 | Caldera Format | Edward (31) | Press F1 |
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| 305914 | 2004-12-20 04:41:00 | Hi guys. I just got the Windows 95 CD back from resurfacing today, and tried installing it on the old computer. However, it dosen't want to boot. Neither the New 52x Cd-rom I force fed it nor the existing 20x will pick it up as bootable. I used ISObuster to salvage the files from the CD [, and tried Nero's "Bootable CD" function to put them on a CD. It burns OK, but when I pop it in the drive, it boots up fine, but I can't format the hard drive. it's got linux partitions occupying the whole thing, so I'm not surprised. I tried getting to the D: prompt, and typing "setup.exe", however it complains "Cannot create a temporary directory. This my be caused by too many files in the root directory." :badpc: So I tried installing FreeDOS, then installing Win95 over that. However the FreeDOS install to HardDrive is very well hidden ?_? So, does anyone know either, what is the command to format the entire drive, without using format C:, or is there are a bootable file I can add to the CD I can use on the 95 CD? Thanks, Edward :badpc: |
Edward (31) | ||
| 305915 | 2004-12-20 04:53:00 | Are you saying you are trying to boot off a Win95 cd? Unless you have made the Win95 cd bootable then it will not boot. Win95 cd is not bootable from standard. If the hard drive has Linux partitions then you will have to delete these before installing Win95. Best to boot to floppy with fdisk and delete the partitons, create a new one, format and install Win95. You will need the CD driver on the floppy to work the CD. That is unless you created a bootable Win95 CD with CD drivers on it. | berryb (99) | ||
| 305916 | 2004-12-20 04:54:00 | W95 CDs aren't bootable . If you have made a bootable CD containing the W95 files, the DOS programmes used in the installation might refuse to run, because the running DOS is the wrong version . If FDISK actually starts you might have been lucky . To get rid of the Linux partitions (early versions of FDISK won't see them, so can't remove them :D) use a Linux install disk: just go through the installation routine to the partitioning stage, remove all the partitions, accept that, exit and boot the W95 installation . (A W98 boot floppy's version of FDISK might let you remove non-DOS partitions) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 305917 | 2004-12-20 05:08:00 | You can download boot disks for Windows 95 from www.bootdisk.com | Davesdad (923) | ||
| 305918 | 2004-12-20 05:13:00 | success! I used fdisk to create an 8gb (note to self: create bigger one...), and setup.exe had no more errors now, since the floppy is f*cked, i'll have to include the bootdisk.com bootdisk as the bootable part on the CD |
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