Hello Edwin Bogert ,

>I have this HP Vectra XA desktop that has 200mhz cpu,3.0gb hd, video card and a lan card. It
>came with Win 95 installed and had the hd partitioned 84% & 16% respectively with FAT16. I
>fdisked the hard drive...

>I've re-installed and
>restarted on this machine numerous times with the same results. Is it hopeless?  TIA.  Edwin
>Bogert

First, try to check your minimorum hardware config with DOS mode.
You should to get working DOS-7 mashine with EMM and HIMEM case.
If it will work well, then try to install Win95/Win98 as you like.
Note that HDD should be in the LBA mode (in BIOS).
After that you can add additional hardware.

Note that using two steps loading Win95/Win98 through the DOS mode
you can always control hardware problem. For this you should be
familiar with DOS and have any DOS shell like Norton Commander
starting from Autoexec.bat in the last line:
{
lh nc.exe
}

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Best regards,
 Yakymakha

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