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Installing Windows 95
Name: Denise Date: August 9, 2000 at 07:23:04 Pacific
Comment:
Please help. My computer was given to me and has Windows 3.11 I want to install windows 95 but don't know how. Please help!!!
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: August 9, 2000 at 07:26:44 Pacific
Reply:
How big is your hard drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: Denise Date: August 9, 2000 at 07:37:15 Pacific
Reply:
I hate sounding like a totally idiot but I'am really not sure. It says Computronix 386 if that helps.
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Response Number 3
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: August 9, 2000 at 07:48:56 Pacific
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Type "chkdsk" at the DOS prompt and it'll tell you. (I forget the exact layout of a chkdsk output and I'm on an NT machine so I can't check. :( ) Or if you can get the case off and see what kind of hard drive it is, it'll probably tell you size as well.
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Response Number 4
Name: Preston Date: August 9, 2000 at 10:20:52 Pacific
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A 386 computer will not run Win95 very well. Personally, I would stick with your Win3 if I had a 386 computer. Win95 on a 486 computer runs too slow for me to really enjoy it.
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Response Number 5
Name: DoOMsdAY Date: August 9, 2000 at 11:14:43 Pacific
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I agree completely, Preston. I even have some doubts with the size of the hard drive for a 386. She might not be able to install it at all - or at least with no real value for having it as she'd have no space to install anything else.
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Response Number 6
Name: Nanookanano Date: August 9, 2000 at 21:58:41 Pacific
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The good news is, Denise, a 386 with Windows 3.11 on it is perfectly good for writing letters and balancing your budget. If you need more than that, I suggest you donate that old fella to a school and buy a Pentium processor computer for 600 dollars.
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Response Number 7
Name: ta-zuid Date: August 15, 2000 at 02:31:10 Pacific
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When you want to install W95 on a 386 it has to be a 386 dx ( 32 bit )and not a sx (16 bit ) processor , check this first !! I have one myself .
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Response Number 8
Name: Santoclos Date: January 22, 2001 at 10:45:36 Pacific
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I also want to install ws95 on my pc, I donīt know what kind of processor it is, how can I know? I guess itīs a 486 running 3.11, but how can I be sure? besides, how do I check the processor to be sure itīs a dx 32 bit?
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