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| Thread ID: 36779 | 2003-08-20 04:28:00 | Arrrggghh Windows 95 :( | ComputerWalrus (3973) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 168868 | 2003-08-23 04:33:00 | The W95 CD isn't bootable, :D Check the BIOS boot settings to see if it will allow booting from a floppy. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 168869 | 2003-08-23 10:43:00 | Did you try any of the responses to your query???? If so, could you please tell us what happened! |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 168870 | 2003-08-23 10:48:00 | How about trying the Dir and Win commands as suggested above and reporting back. Then we'd have a much better idea of what the situation is. | Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 168871 | 2003-08-23 11:06:00 | Yeah I've tried plenty of different things including whats listed above. The only thing on the computer is Command Com, taking up 93000 bytes I think, of 2.4GB on the disk, Win 95 isn't there. I've tried the windows 95 and 98 bootdisks and it just says "remove media" on startup. When I try to enter the BIOS through F10 or any of the ctrl/alt Fnumber combos it just makes that beep noise and and only gives me the option to boot (f1), without any of the other options I'm used to eg enter BIOS, safe mode etc. I've used a DOS 6.22 bootdisk but that just seems to load a few files and leave me back where I started because it won't install any operating system from the CD drive. I've tried to format c: in dos but it just says bad command, and I've tried to run the bootdisks from dos but they both say they won't run in dos. The CD drive seems to work ok because it loaded my compaq windows ME system cd and went to install it but it was a presario cd and wouldn't install on the deskpro. It would be fine if I could get the windows 95 cd to actually run on startup like the ME one does. | ComputerWalrus (3973) | ||
| 168872 | 2003-08-24 03:53:00 | The Windows ME CD is designed to be bootable. The W95 one is not. DOS boot disks won't read a CD without a driver for the CD and the MSCDEX programme. AHA. :D This is a Deskpro. :D Does it give a white square near the top righthand corner of the screen when starting up? If so, that's when to hit F10 for the BIOS Setup. If you don't get the white square, a proper job has been don on the disk, and the maintenance partition has been clouted. That partition contains the BIOS setup programme. :D You can download a file from compaq (now hp) , which when run will make trhree floppies which will restore the partition. You can get CD drivers from lots of places ... there's also a good package called "CD God" which lets you make a floppy which will make just about any CD usable. If you can get a DOS prompt from the ME CD, you can probably use that to start the setup.exe programme on the W95 CD. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 168873 | 2003-08-24 04:16:00 | Sorry I should have mentioned the computer type earlier. Deskpro 4000 6233 MMX 2400. It's got CD, floppy, 2.4g hdd, 233 cpu and 64mb ram. Cost $70, All I wanted was something to play Age Of Empires 2 on against someone else on my newer computer. BTW it doesn't have any white square on startup. |
ComputerWalrus (3973) | ||
| 168874 | 2003-08-24 09:47:00 | A Win 95 boot disc does not normally have any CD drivers on it. If you go to bootdisc.com I am fairly sure that you can download a Win 95 boot disc that includes CD ROM drivers. After booting from such a disc you should then be able to install Win 95 from your CD. | Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 168875 | 2003-08-24 10:00:00 | Try pressing the F10 on comp bootup. set bios to boot from floppy. Save settings. Reboot with boot disk with cdrom support. | mark.p (383) | ||
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