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by simon.graham

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Hi,

Am trying to install Win 95 from CD on an old PC, with 1.5GB hard drive.

I've booted up with a Win98 disk, to enable CD ROM support; have typed "setup" from E: to start the setup process, but am presented with a Windows message stating that... "setup is now going to perform a routine check of my PC. Press Enter to continue"
Once I have done this I am presented with a message stating that ...."Windows Setup requires 7340032 bytes available on your C: drive"

The CD I am using is a WIn95 with USB Support, does this effect things?

Am I missing something fundamental? All I wanna do is re-install Win95.

Ideas welcome.

Cheers,
Simon

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by joe

The way I install win95 is to boot from floppy for cdrom support.
Than type c: and enter
Than xcopy E:\win95 c:\win95 if E is your CD
Type D for directory when prompt
Once files are copied at the C:\ prompt change dir to cd win95 press enter
than type setup.
You won't need the win 95 cd anymore.

Good luck HTH

by joe

Sorry at the A:\prompt type xcopy E:\win95 c:\win95 if E is your CD

by alpha-male

I have a couple of questions here.
Is the HD recognized correctly by the system? Can you boot to it? Are you trying to save the data on the old HD? How much "free space" is available on the drive?

It looks to me like windows is not seeing the drive correctly or the drive doesn't have enough space available. If you don't need the data that's on it, re-format the drive, boot to your boot disk and re-install Windows. I think since you're using 95 with USB support you are okay for FAT32...You may want to go ahead and fdisk the drive and the MBR just to start clean.

by rapidad

I agree with Alphamale, fdisk the drive, make sure in bios it sees the drive as the size you think it should be. I've encountered that problem before because on some of the older dells and hp machines they have a system space at the front of the drive of about 8-12meg. It is probably seeing this space and trying to install windows there. When in fdisk option 4 will list your partitions and sozes, look for this small partition and get rid of it.

by thechas

This is the "normal" error message when the hard drive has not been partitioned and formatted.

From the bootdisk, run fdisk.
Create, and enable a "primary DOS partition"
Re-boot, and format the drive.

You should now be able to install Windows.

While a 98 startup disk will work, the actual W95 startup disk (not a bootdisk form add/remove programs) will work to.

Chas

by simon.graham

Yes, this did the trick. I'm used to NT4 installs, and was expecting the format to take place with the O/S install, as can be done with NT4.

Thanks for all your help folks,.
Simon

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