fdisk /mbr

And that is a most important line as without it the hard drive can not boot. Mark must have just used the dome.bat as a reference to get himem.sys loaded correctly and actually used the Sys command from a 95 bootdisk to get the hard drive where it would boot WITH himem.sys loaded properly so that setup would actually run right.

Fdisk /mbr checks to see if the active partition switch is set right, checks that io.sys and msdos.sys are on the hard drive and if all that checks out, it then re-writes the Master Boot Record (mbr) such that it will now link thru the first sector to load in io.sys which then loads in command.com after checking out msdos.sys info. And I FORGOT about that part, sorry! Without rewriting the mbr, the boot fails at the first sector which would bring on scandisk, etc. that you are now reporting. Sys.com re-writes the mbr as well but you can't sys a to be 95 hard drive from a 98 boot disk, or you wind up with the wrong files on the hard drive.

If it's any consolation I'm in the middle of doing this myself and ran right into my own mistake head on - ouch! To see it in a public forum makes it hurt much worse, again my apologizes.


On Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 6:01 am, Sandy wrote:
>Yep, that's what it was. Thanks. I only have to do this every few years, so I forgot
>about that BIOS bit. Now I am having other problems with the installation, problems
>I have never had before, always freezing before it finishes and ending up in scandisk
>or Safe mode and having to start over again. Viscious cycle.
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Written in response to: re: trying to install windows 95 on newly formatted hard drive (Sandy: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 6:01 am) Responses to this message: re: trying to install windows 95 on newly formatted hard drive (Jeannie: Monday, May 8, 2006 at 4:27 pm)

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