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need help installing EIDE on win95

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by apual_7

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HAVE OLDER WESTERN DIGITAL HARDDRIVE(18G).WANT TO INSTALL ON 95OS. OS DOES NOT HAVE DRIVERS. CANT FIND DRIVERS ON WD SITE OR DRIVERSGUIDE,WHERE DO I LOOK. WHAT DO I DO. PLAESE RESPOND DIRECTLY TO APAUL_7@HOTMAIL.COM

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by thechas

First off, you are apt to get more and quicker answers to technical questions by posting them in the Technical Q&A section of the site.

Second, you only need to post to 1 forum unless you do not get any responses.

3rd, you don';t need a driver for the hard drive, you need a driver for the IDE controller on the motherboard.

4th, which version of W95?
Unless you have version 2.5 ("C") you are limited to FAT16, and 2GB per logical drive.
You will need to break the drive up into 1 2GB primary DOS partition, and 8 2GB logical drives on the extended DOS partition.

If the drive has been formatted as a FAT32 or NTFS volume, Windows 95 cannot recognize that the drive is there.

You need to start with a W95 startup disk.
This should have come with the W95 CD, or you can download an image from the links at www.bootdisk.com

After booting from the floppy, run fdisk and set up the partitions as needed.
Format at least the C: drive, and then you should be able to install Windows.

Chas

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