I don't have a solution to Wayne Harris' problem: I share his dilemma and am
very interested in solutions.
I have a PB 60mhz pentium with 40mb ram, the original C Drive of 450 mb, a
second 1.2G hard drive on D and a CD on E. The CD was moved to E when the
1.2 was added by Computer City.
I made the mistake of continuously using disc comprehension. When I got my
new PC I decided to uncompress, D first, because I didn't have enough room
on C. Something happened during uncompression and I couldn't get W98
preview to operate and couldn't uninstall it. 98 expires this month anyway.
I just kept deleting files from D. I could not get the CD recognized. I
can't use the PB install CD because it doesn't recognize the CD being on E.
I have W95 startup disks and a W95 updgrade disk. I did reinstall MSDOS
6.2. I didn't FDISK.
I know I must change MSDEX .
Looking for a game plan to install W95.
John Penasack
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Harris <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 6:19 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Loading Operating System on new hard drive
> Hello and nice to find you. I need help loading an operating systems,
or
>rather operating systems on my hard drive. I have been unsuccessful for the
>most part. This is my "play" computer, the one I learn all about computers
>on, and the one I am allowed to screw up and nothing will get excited. It
is
>an old AT &T Globalyst 360 TPC, 66MHZ made about 1994. It has 16 Megs of
>RAM. What happened is the new hard drive I bought 2 years ago went bad in
>the area that had the operating system on it and Windows 95 wouldn't come
up
>anymore. So Seagate sent me an exchange for free.
> I have had problems putting an operating system on the new hard drive.
I
>have used FDISK to partition the disk. This of course doesn't recognize the
>2.5Gig hard drive I now have in there, it recognizes 504Meg. I figure
that's
>fine, I can fix that later. Well it doesn't work. I have tried countless
>variations of FDISK, EZ-Drive software from Western Digital, several ways
to
>format i.e., FORMAT c:/s/u. Disk would format, disk would be recognized as
>2.5 Gig and programs would to load. None have been successful.
> I have tried the following programs. I was able to load the original
>computer software into the computer, Windows 3.1 and all the A T & T
>software provided. I was also able to recognize three partitions on the
File
>Manager. Fine so far, but I tried to upgrade to Windows 95. It goes through
>the entire upgrade and when it is time to restart the computer, and it does
>so, the message about nonsytem disk appears, and there are no floppies in
>the drive. I also was able to load Windows NT 4 onto the drive.
> What I have available for systems is Windows 3.1 and 3.11, Windows 95
>upgrade version, Windows NT 4 full version and Windows 98 OEM version. I
>would like to eventually have Windows NT, either Windows 95 or 98, and a
>Linux version on the computer with a menu for a choice of system to boot
up.
> I apologize for the wordiness and yet I know I left a lot of info out.
>I have been trying to do this for at least 2 months off and on and have had
>friends with a little more knowledge than me attempt to fix it. I don't
want
>to call in a professional, I want to LEARN how to do these things myself.
>Then I can help my friends. Thanks for any help provided.
>
>
>Wayne Harris
>
> PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages
> to be posted to: [log in to unmask]
>
PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by:
The NOSPIN Group
http://nospin.com
|
