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Hangs on Win 95 splash screen….wont go past it !
I get this error:Compression driver can not be set up correctly. Says to “Get version that is compatible with this version of windows your using”
I think the ver I saw.. when ablewas.. win 95 4.011111111111
This is a Packard bell Legend 436 cdt model 75 mhz. 1.2 gig drive(by conner peripheals)
I was in the A prompt at one point and able to switch to the C drive and run a scandisk..no errors came up.
Now I cant get inA or C drive anymore..get these errors
Error in config.sys Line 2 ( I know I have seen this before on another pc once.)
Error in Himem.sys
And finally Command.com is missing or corrupted. Says for me to type in c:\windows\command.com (this does not work for me)
What im hoping to do is load win 98 or 95 again on this pc..don’t have much info on it..Or at least restore it to start up again.

thanks in advance,
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First, reset your CMOS BIOS settings to the defaults. I’m not sure how to get to the Packard Bell CMOS settings. You may have to contact Packard Bell.
Second, obtain a Windows 98 startup boot floppy. Write protect it just in case you may have a virus. Start your computer with the floppy. It should find most CDROM drives. Access the CDROM drive and run Windows setup. I recommend Windows 98 because it has better hardware support.

Good luck.

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Sound like you have HDD compression software not working. If you know you did’nt use any compression, try deleting drvspace.bin in the root of the C drive. Conner is now owened by Seagate, if you go to their website you can download the compressionsoftware and re-install it to your HDD.

TM.

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Working with compressed drives is a big problem that causes upgrades to be made because of file access has been limited in the earlier models of disk compression and the upgrade version cannot access the files.Reads as though you have the first version of windows in a compressed state(4.1) and the upgrade(4.11) is not able to write to the disk,this may be a problem that will require uncompressing the drive with a third party utility,and then Fdisking and reinstalling an upgrade.

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Hi,
try booting to safemode by tapping f5 when the computer starts up. Remove multiple devices in device manager and disable virus scan to scan on startup.
Get a win95 startup disk and boot to it. At the a: type sys c:
Rename config.sys config.dog
Run chkdsk at a: for viruses
If all fails restore system

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Just before the computer is about to go past the BIOS/Boot screen and start windows, hold down the CTRL key to get the boot menu. Select Safe Mode. If it will get to Safe Mode, open Windows Explorer, rename the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files located in the C:\ drive. Use an extension like .old. Next open Notepad. Leave the window blank and select File, Save As, and name it Autoexec.bat, save it to C:\. Do the same thing again and name it Config. Now open System Properties, Performance tab, Virtual Memory and see if the virtual memory has been custom set. If it has, just select “Let Windows Manage….”. Then reboot the computer. You can go back later to Safe Mode, Device Manager and delete duplicate device entries. Just get it to boot first. If it won’t boot, boot it with a Win98 Boot Disk and at the A: prompt type “edit”. Select the Autoexec.bat file and delete everything in it. Save. Open the Config.sys file and delete everything in it. Then try rebooting.

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i just went through the same nightmare on a PB legend 406cd. it has nothing to do with compression as far as i could figure out but with the proprietary win95 install not wanting you to install anything but packard bell. if you have more than one partition on your drive, boot up in dos and xcopy your c drive to another partition. otherwise you’ll probably lose your files. hopefully you have the install stuff for any other software you need. then do a quick format on the c drive
format c:/s/q
and use your win98 boot disk to boot up and do a clean install of win98 to the c drive. if it asks point it to the previous installation on the other partition. then you can reinstall software and copy files back. i tried 5 times to just reinstall over the packard bell stuff before i resorted to this. hey,talk to packard bell….

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i tried going to there site..but apperently they are doing something different and some links arent working for now…grrr..but im sure your right about going the 98 route..i have already formatted….giving up now on 95 and gonna try it… thanks for everyones help 🙂
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