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March 4, 2002 at 12:43 AM
red dragoon

goofy hard drive

by red dragoon . Updated 24 years, 3 months ago

I’ve never seen this one before. I’m trying to install Windows 95 from CD on this old Pentium motherboard, 120 MHz, 16M ram. First I partition the hard drive. Then when I format it, it says there are 29 MB of data in bad clusters. A thorough scan disk does not report any physical damage. However, it gives me all these errors like the FAT is the wrong type, so it replaced copy 1 with copy 2. Then it creates all these directories on the drive like DIR00008 that’s filled with files like *****.***.And if I try to delete the files, it tells me the FAT is bad. So I delete the partition and make a new. Then I format it and WHAMO! I’m right back to where I started. So i try to run setup off the CD anyhow, or copy the CABS folder to the hard drive. No luck. The copying bombs part of the way through. It says it either doesn’t have enough room or it can’t find the file.

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