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re: Too many COAs
Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 5:25 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dudleyjohn
(2 messages posted)
OK. I went back and re-installed Win95 on one of my laptops. I FDisked and re-formatted
the hard drive, then ran setup from the cdrom. I did this several times usuing a
different (valid) COA each time. It worked every time.
I FDisked and re-formatted each time, just in case some code was placed on the hard
drive by each installation to identify the cdrom used, or whatever (I'm paranoid,
OK?). Admittedly, the versions of Win95 that I was using were all the same (Full,
USB support), which means the COA format was the same. This obviously wouldn't work
with upgrade versions that have a different number of characters in the COA.
I always thought that the COA had to match the CD, but I guess that is not true,
within limits.
On Friday, August 12, 2005 at 5:11 pm, Jerry wrote:
>"Trial and Error."
>
>There is no way to decode which COA is necessary
>from the files stored on the CD. After you get
>them sorted out, I would suggest writing the COA
>on the CD face with a SHARPIE pen.
>
>Jerry
- Written in response to:
- re: Too many COAs (Jerry: Friday, August 12, 2005 at 5:11 pm)
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