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| Thread ID: 62365 | 2005-10-05 06:05:00 | I CAN'T REINSTALL WINDOWS 95!?! | matthewkeelty (9017) | Press F1 |
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| 393569 | 2005-10-05 19:20:00 | Does anyone know what the installed size of 95 is once it's on the hard drive? I found a really old 333 mhz W95 puter too, and it only has a 1gig drive. Just wondering if W98SE will actually fit. Man, a 1GB HDD is gigantic! My first PC had a huge 365MB hard drive and there was plenty of room on it for Win95 and a few games. For a little while anyway... upgraded to 1.1GB as soon as I could. If it had enough grunt I would have installed Win98 on it as well but I got a new beasty when Win98 came out instead. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 393570 | 2005-10-06 05:34:00 | Man, a 1GB HDD is gigantic! My first PC had a huge 365MB hard drive and there was plenty of room on it for Win95 and a few games . For a little while anyway . . . upgraded to 1 . 1GB as soon as I could . If it had enough grunt I would have installed Win98 on it as well but I got a new beasty when Win98 came out instead . Yeah Foxy . . I remember my old C>64 with MOS 6510 processor and 64 KB RAM under the keyboard . It had floppies the size of personal pizzas and the default storage was a cassette tape! They don't build them like that any more . . thank goodness! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 393571 | 2005-10-07 22:57:00 | yea i downloaded a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com but when i start up the computa wif it in the drive it just says 'Disk I\O Error' | matthewkeelty (9017) | ||
| 393572 | 2005-10-08 00:25:00 | I'd be inclined to check that the boot floppy you made will actually boot in another machine. If not, then try again with a known good formatted floppy, and remake the boot floppy. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 393573 | 2005-10-08 02:51:00 | If you are making a boot floppy, you must have a perfect floppy. Format it, and if there are any bad areas mapped out, bin it, and get a good one. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 393574 | 2006-07-30 07:22:00 | if I recall correctly win95a was about 30mb installed........95B was about um........not too sure but I think about 70mb, but 95C was about 120mb and 98 was 250mb.... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 393575 | 2006-07-30 08:28:00 | Win95 - Roughly 22mb. Ahhh... How the bloat has grown over the past 10 years.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 393576 | 2006-07-30 20:49:00 | Does anyone know what the installed size of 95 is once it's on the hard drive? I found a really old 333 mhz W95 puter too, and it only has a 1gig drive . Just wondering if W98SE will actually fit . :confused: I managed to fit 98SE onto a 640MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive . Don't know how much space was actually free . |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 393577 | 2006-07-31 02:45:00 | In pre-95 days I had Windows 3.1, Word, Excel and Project running on a 20 Meg Drive, in a 286 Toshiba T1200XE. An achievement I am still proud of today. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 393578 | 2006-08-01 00:30:00 | yea i downloaded a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com but when i start up the computa wif it in the drive it just says 'Disk I\O Error' Matthew, a few pointers, Is the Win 95 disc you have for Win95a or Win95b, a(original) is M/S 07/95, b is M/S ?/97 Assuming you have downloaded the correct boot version what you will have on the floppy is boot95a.exe or boot95b.exe You have to put this floppy in a working computer, 2 click on exe file and it will download 31 or 32 objects to a fresh formatted 1.44 MB floppy that you are asked to insert. This is your boot floppy. Assuming you can open the CMOS utility and access the BIOS by pressing the DEL button Look in Advanced BIOS Features and check the first boot device is floppy. Leave CMOS. Shutdown. Insert boot floppy. Reboot and this should run you through to the A prompt A:\> Assuming D is your CD Rom drive after the A prompt type D: You will see A:\>D: press enter, you will see D:\> insert Win 95 CD then type SETUP You will see D:\>SETUP press enter This should run through the Installation. Have available the PID number from the Certificate of Authenticity for the Win 95 CD that you have, if you don't have it the installation cannot be completed. You may also need Installation floppies for the Display Adaptor/Video Card that is installed plus possibly Audio card floppies. If you don't have the Display Adaptor floppies the installation can be completed but you may end up with basic 16 colors and no means of altering,which means many games will not play. |
FrankS (257) | ||
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