I will try to keep this short, I have a new computer (AMDk62-400,64mb,4.3G) and had win98 installed. I purchased a TV tuner card that is not supported in win98, so I backed up everything I created (word files, etc..). Since I didn't leave the option of uninstalling 98, I re-formated my hard drive. I also have an older version of win95, so I also did a fdisk and created the fat16. Now everytime I run scandisk, it finds all kinds of problems. After fixing them all and try to install win95, it has the error (su0013) needs ms-dos boot partition. Yet when I try to do fdisk, it comes back with (error reading fixed disk). I use my win95 start-up disk, and I can go to c: & d: & e:, and see everything, but that is all, I even tried the fdisk/mbr. Here is what my fdisk/status looks like: 1st line-disk=1 drv=(blank) mbytes=504 free=(blank) usage=100% 2nd line-disk=(blank) drv=c: mbytes=2047 free=(blank) usage=(blank) 3rd line-disk=(blank) drv=d: mbytes=2048 free=(blank) usage=(blank). I also have an e: drive but doesn't show it here. ANY!!!! help would be greatly appreciated!!! Eric boutin@yahoo.com

If you used a win98 boot disk you can fdisk the hdd as one fat32 partition and format it. The disk will auto detect your cd drive and then you should be able to install win95 easily. If you havnt got the disk and you want a copy mail me.

Thank you so much for replying so fast, but I also tryed this, and got the same error message: -error reading fixed disk- Any other suggestions, again, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Eric

Hi, I think you still have FAT32 on your drive and Win95 cant recognize it. Boot from Win98 startup fisk, run Win98 FDISK and remove all partitions on your hard drive. Use FDISK /STATUS command to make sure HDD has no partitions defined. Then boot from Win95 startup disk, run Win95 FDISK and create new partitions (you'll need at least 3 of them because FAT16 not supports partitions above 2.1G in size). Then format and try to install Windows. Good luck, Igor M

Windows 95 can recognise fat32. I have conputers with 1 6 gig fat32 partition running windows fine. Eric Are the setting in the bios all correct? Is it auto detecting your hdd?

I had the same problem. I went into setup during bootup and disabled virus protection for the mbr. This allowed me to do what ever I wanted to do.

Hi Sean, Not any Win95 can recognize FAT32 but Win95B only. Good luck, Igor M