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[J_Me]

I formatted a 210MB HD and ran FDISK. I want to install W95 from the CD Rom but when I type "D" at the prompt, it says the drive is invalid. The only thing on the HD is the Boot files. I opened the Autoexec.bat and it has "/M:12" at the end of it(?). I don't know how to edit the file either (if I have to). I installed the driver that came with the CDROM. Can anyone help me with this. Please? Thanks, Jamey

[smurfy]

Welcome to the forums J_Me.
Get yourself a REAL bootdisk right here At Cyber Tech Help (http://www.cybertechhelp.com/Downloads/bootdisk.zip).

This will load generic CD-Rom drivers and enable you to load windows (unless you have a very old CD-Rom/Sound Card comb which require the sound drivers to be installed before the Cd-Rom will be recognised).
Note that when using this your Cd-Rom will be Drive E (D is a RAMdrive).


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Smurfy
CyberTech Help (http://www.cybertechhelp.com) Applications & Windows95 Forum moderator.

[Junky]

smurfy is dead on, follow his advice.

However, I'd delete the autoexec.bat and config.sys (if it's there) before installing windows. Windows does not need either one to run properly. If Windows adds the autoexec.bat while installing, that's OK...leave it there.

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Moderator of Hardware & Overclocking

[Topdog]

Just a little aside on this one.
I notice that it is only a 210MB HDD. You may or may not run into difficulties when you try to install W95. W95 will typically use up to 60MB of disk space, depending on the functions installed, but will use much more during the Setup phase(this will be returned after Setup has finished and Windows is running). You may therefore get disk space problems whilst trying to install Windows.
Even if Windows installs successfully you will be woefully short of disk space to run other applications with it anyway(which also require a lot of free disk space to run their install programs).
It sounds too like this may be an older system and not suitable for want you want to do. You may be short on RAM amongst other things. Maybe you could post a little more info on your system.
If you have the box the Windows CD etc. came in and/or the Users manual, have a look at the Minimum System Requirements to see whether your system meets those requirements.
May save you a lot of frustration and heartache in the long run...




[This message has been edited by Topdog (edited 15 March 2001).]