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re: trying to install windows 95 on newly formatted hard drive
Monday, May 1, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(164 messages posted)
Hi, Sandy.
It sounds like you might be stuck in the 'wrong boot order' situation. Back in the
days of 3.1 and 95, computers came from the factory with default boot order of A:,
C:, and then whatever drive. But since the advent of bootable CDs and OS installation
CDs that are made to boot up a PC (OEM 98, ME, Win2k and up), that order is commonly
now CDROM, C: and then whatever drive.
The boot order can be changed back to the needed A:, C:, CDROM for Win95 by entering
the BIOS setup menu and saving the changes to the CMOS memory. Usually pressing
Delete key during the bootup POST text screens will get you into the BIOS, but that
info is also usually on the screen (at the bottom) during POST text screens if yours
requires a different keypress to enter the BIOS setup screens. When that is done
the machine will then boot from the floppy drive if a bootable floppy disk is inserted
into the floppy drive.
'invalid disk' error on a freshly formatted hard drive is to be expected and all
is still well. You just needed to boot from the A: drive is all that is wrong.
I'm not sure the 'dome' method is what fixed up Mark - he didn't say that explicitly.
Dome.bat was written for 'full' 95b CD, if you have a different 95 CD or boot with
any other bootdisk than the standard 98 bootdisk it may not work. Most 95b installation
cab files here are sized at 1,676 Kb as one method of determination of just what
subversion of 95 you might have. Also my layout.inf file was automatically generated
on Thu Aug 22 23:58:18 1996 to further pin down which version of 95 that dome.bat
was written for.
On Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 3:43 pm, Sandy wrote:
>Guys, it hasn't worked for me! I have a Win95 PC and a Win98 PC (I am writing from
>the 98!!) I had some problems, so I was trying to re-install Win95 to get rid of
>them, and it was not working. So I decided to re-install it from DOS instead. As
>an extra measure, I reformatted C DRIVE!
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>Now, no matter what I stick into the PC, I get the old "invalid system disk" message.
>I tried the Win98 "dome" thing recently posted, but I guess you can't fool the PC
>if you can't get past your "invalid" disks. Even when there are no disks inserted
>anywhere, you still have an invalid disk. I guess the hard disk is invalid???
>
>I have many times solved problems with this computer by re-loading Win95 from DOS.
>But this time, I can't even get to DOS. What can I try next???
>
>Sandy in Dartmouth
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