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re: Re-install of Win 95 stops when "hard drive has errors" go
Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John
(7 messages posted)
Thanks Keith for again replying to my message. I will be trying again tomorrow on
the troublesome computer and I hope the information you supplied will be helpful.
I will let you know what happens. By the way, I do have all the necessary drivers
as you mentioned. ....John
On Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 12:04 pm, Keith Stanier wrote:
>Well as I suggested earlier.
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>What you normally need on your boot disk is Format.com you could also put Fdisk.exe
>on there are well. When you format a drive it will tell you if there are any bad
>sectors on the drive.
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>Fdisk.exe will remove the current C: or split the drive into different partitions.
>It depends on how big your C: is. If you talking about Win95 then its an old system
>with a relatively small drive.
>
>If you wanted to do a full scan before you installed
>Win95 then change to your CD drive and type CD Win95 (CD = change directory) this
>will change to the D:\Win95 directory then type Scandisk C:. After its done a FAT
>(FAT = File Allocation Table) scan you will be asked if you want to do a full scan,
>select yes.
>
>Don't forget if you do a format and a fresh rebuild you will need all the necessary
>drivers e.g. Video card, Sound card, Printer etc
>
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