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| Thread ID: 64918 | 2006-01-02 04:20:00 | Windows 95 on an 80mb hd | Sam W (9332) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 417286 | 2006-01-02 22:29:00 | if you're so desperate i'll give you a 1, 2 or 4gb drive i would have somewhere. these are going into the rubbish as i'm doing a big cleanup. even a newer pc, somewhere under the bed. | quarry (252) | ||
| 417287 | 2006-01-02 23:06:00 | Not worth it spending $5 on that system, heck its not even worth that much. I say, format it and install windows 95b or c whatever version you have from your ZIP disk. I suppose that will work in DOS. Should I think. Use the custom installation and go and untick the non essentials. You can always add the other stuff later on. If out of space then just use the ZIP disk for your own files or network it if you got a LAN card .. map a network drive. If windows does not even install on that HDD with minimal installation. Maybe find a mate or such who has windows 95a to giveaway. Or use DOS or Windows 3.1 or 3.11. Or spend $80 or $100 for a much better used computer. Or a $500 PC for a modern but low end ex. the monitor. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 417288 | 2006-01-02 23:09:00 | What did you think - they were always huge? My first HDD was 52mb. And that wasn't the smallest either... Ok I will admit it I don't know a lot about computers from 2000 earlier, but thanks for the correction :thumbs: |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 417289 | 2006-01-03 01:10:00 | Do a search on "95lite". It is a custom installer that will install Windows 95 with minimum options - cuts some of the bloat and leaves out Internet Explorer stuff. This is just the thing I need! I searched everywhere and I cant seem to find anything :( Does anyone know of a place to find this? |
Sam W (9332) | ||
| 417290 | 2006-01-03 01:19:00 | This is just the thing I need! I searched everywhere and I cant seem to find anything :( Does anyone know of a place to find this? From memory there was never a Win95 Lite, if there was it would have taken you back to Win3.11 :). There was/is a Win98 Lite, that was intended mainly for removing Internet Explorer, that Microsoft said couldn't be uncoupled from Windows. I ran this for a while, but all it did really was to put Win98 back virtually to Win95, and it lost lots of win98 features. Interesting to prove that Microsoft was lying about the integration of IE in Windows, but in the end I didn't find it of much use. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 417291 | 2006-01-03 03:21:00 | Sam this lite softwares isn't much use to you if your 80MB cannot fit windows. Becos I have used win98 lite before and it runs AFTER windows 98 has been installed. If windows 98 does not fit to begin with, your stuck at step (1). | Nomad (952) | ||
| 417292 | 2006-01-03 22:11:00 | Yay, I got it installed via another computer by going through setup on the other and transfering all over a zip disk. But now I am faced by a completely different issue. Bad ram. After doing a BIOS check it gets up to 7mb before finding bad ram. Win95 doesn't like this, I tryed skipping the himem test "Himem /testmem: off" but win95 freezes on the bad ram. I'm not going to spend ANY money on this laptop so is there a way to limit win95's ram usage to 6mb to skip the bad ram and use the hard disk for the rest? |
Sam W (9332) | ||
| 417293 | 2006-01-04 00:01:00 | I don't know a lot about computers from 2000 earlier Well the short history of PCs. Once there were one or two huge things that took up an entire warehouse size building and had lots of valves. The first bug was a bug - an insect. Stuck in it. Therefore the term "bug". Then there was the HomeBrew Club started by a bunch of guys who thought it would be cool to have such a thing themselves. Of course you couldn't run out and buy a mainframe thing like that unless you were a millionaire. So they built various strange little things themselves, mostly consisting of a box with some flashing lights and levers that you had to program - in binary - to get a result from. Then one of these guys - Steve Wozniack - thought it would be really handy to have a keyboard and screen and do more things with it. This is how Apple came to be born - after his mate - the other Steve - liked the idea. Meanwhile MS was busy sitting in an office waiting for the fateful visit from IBM and plotting how to buy someone elses O/S (QDOS) and rent it to IBM - but thats another story. After Apple got going, a bunch of others came along and thought they'd do the same thing - thus leading to home PCs as we know it now. But along the way such things as floppy drives, hard drives, mice, optical drives etc had to be invented. http://www.woz.org/ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 417294 | 2006-01-04 00:38:00 | Yay, I got it installed via another computer by going through setup on the other and transfering all over a zip disk . But now I am faced by a completely different issue . Bad ram . After doing a BIOS check it gets up to 7mb before finding bad ram . Win95 doesn't like this, I tryed skipping the himem test "Himem /testmem: off" but win95 freezes on the bad ram . I'm not going to spend ANY money on this laptop so is there a way to limit win95's ram usage to 6mb to skip the bad ram and use the hard disk for the rest? Your wasting your time . Go out and spend $15 or $50 on another used computer if you must . 7MB my 386 running windows 3 . 11 had 10MB . 16MB is pointless on win95, it requires 32MB at least to write a letter, an email . . . . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 417295 | 2006-01-04 01:53:00 | Just for the he77 of it, it finally did it! I installed XP-Pro with SP-2 on 3.3gig! I still have 877 mb left over too! Yup....as of yet however, I don't have the nerve to put it on line. :lol: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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