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| 54100 | 2002-06-12 23:58:00 | I have an old NEC 486 laptop, 8 meg of Ram & 200 meg HDD. The guy I bought from had loaded Win95 via an outside medium & this was OK but there was only about 10 meg of free space. I tried to compress the drive & was advised that I needed to copy certain files from the Win95 CD to the Windows directory of the laptop. After doing this & trying to compress the drive again, something went wrong & I can no longer get the PC to start. I have a program 'configsafe' on the laptop which I can access but when I try to reset the machine to an earlier date, it just hangs & nothing more happens. Can anyone help please? |
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| 54101 | 2002-06-13 05:10:00 | If 'something went wrong' when you tried to compress the disk, it's likely that something will be *very* wrong. You have a bad case of broken Windows. ;-) . I'm surprised that it even tried to do the compress with only 10 MB free. Normally it would want more than that. My prerefence would be to format the disk, use the DOS file transfer or Laplink to copy the W95 install files to a WIN95 directory, and do a clean installation. Then do the compression with plenty of room to work. (Remmber that the Windows swap file can't be in the compressed area). |
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| 54102 | 2002-06-13 05:40:00 | Thanks for the advise Graham, I thought it might be something major. Will give the re-format option a try. |
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