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I have a windows 95 floppy disk that's excellent for formatting quickly.All I do is start the pc hit the letter A with the floppy disk in, and wham it formats my pc in about 10 seconds and helped me right away installing my windows 95.Awesome disk!The only thing is, it works for Win95 only.How can I make this disk work for Windows 98se since I am using it now?????Can I add or change a file on the disk for it to reconize Win98 now instead of Win95 or both?
A million thanks to anyone knowing the answer.
It formats your HD in 10 seconds and then installs the OS? Does it wash the dishes and vacuum, too? What have you been smoking?
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Kinda rude don't you think?I said it formats in about 10 seconds.I didnt say it installs windows in that, but sure helps in speeding up the installation process without waiting long for formatting! Geez!!
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If you will bother to read my post, I didn't say you included the OS install in the claimed 10 seconds. My apparently too subtle for you point was that it is not physically possible to format, let alone partition, a HD in 10 seconds, unless you perhaps have a uniquely miniscule one.
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With all due respect, its impossible to format even a 2Gig HD in about 10 seconds in any OS. It takes that long to "Quick erase" a floppy. Are we missing something in your question?
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Amber is there any way that I can get you to send the disk you speak of.I would like to have a look at it and try it out.THANKS either way
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Ok guys this is what I'm saying. If Im not understood this time I will forget about it..LOL
Sometime ago a friend of mine gave me a windows 95 disk.What this disk does is it helps the formatting to go much quicker.
All I needed to do was turn on my pc with the floppy in and hit the letter A on my keyboard and it would quickly format my hd.
After it formatted it would reboot my system and with the windows 95 cd now in the cd rom it would start the installation of windows 95.My question was why would this floppy only work for 95 and not 98 and is there someway to use it as both by adding a file to it or deleting one or something?I have used this disk so much and it made things so much easier and faster.I would hate not to use it now that Im on win98se..
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Amber, I believe there is a batch file in the floppy disk. Why don't you copy & paste the text of the batch file here so we can look at it and provide you any suggestions. The file name is 'A.bat' in the floppy disk. You can open the file in NotePad or in Edit.
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HiNQ,
I could do that if I knew exactly what I was looking for.There's quite a few files here but I don't see the extensions to all of them..Would it be the one named msbatch????
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Hi Amber
If you are typing 'A' at the DOS prompt then the file name is 'A.bat'. There are # of ways you can see a file extension, here are some of them:
- at DOS prompt type DIR and see the file listings including file extensions
- select the file, right click the file and select properties or from file menu select properties
- in Win 98, VIEW > Folder Options... > VIEW and uncheck the 'Hide file extensions for known file types' option.
The last option is not advisable for new computer users.
Hope this helps.
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Sorry NQ ,I don't see anything like that on this disk.I think I am out of luck having this disk work with 98 .
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I'm not in any way intending to sound demeaning, so please to not take this question in the wrong spirit: Just what do you mean by the term "format my hd"? When the "awesome" format program finishes its nominal 10 second (or whatever) task, is your C: drive now completely blank -- nothing (no files of any kind) on it? Does the format program also copy all the DOS system files (these are NOT the Windows files) back on it during the 10 seconds? (They would all be erased in a true format.) The reason I ask that is it takes longer than 10 seconds just to copy these files off a floppy. Thank you for your response.
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Rac I'm sorry we got off on the wrong start here.
This disk was giving to me a few years ago and I have used it many times.I just know that when I have needed to format my hd this is the disk I always used when I was running Win 95.I know that when I was about to format I was able to put this disk in and right away it would begin to format and it would do it quickly.It would also state that it was formatting.After doing so, my pc would re start and ask for the win95 cd to begin the installation .Thats all I can tell you.Apparantly, you know much more than I do about these computers but the floppy did save me alot of time and I wouldnt bother to ask how I could also get it to work with Win98se if I didnt like it so much.Have a good day.
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Oh, to be saved from the tedium of typing
format c:
... quite a timesaver
Maybe I'm missing the point here... I've always felt it was better to actually know what you're doing, rather than relying on some 'magic disk'
Never saw the benefit in constantly reformatting a hard drive, either - still, whatever makes you happy I s'pose.;-)
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Well, I am still confused, but I am sure the details are apparent to several. And I am sure those details will be cast out into oblivion, which seems appropriate, with all the confusion and all.
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Bottom line is, whatever the awsome disk does in 10 seconds, I doubt that it is formatting the C: drive and reinstalling the system files.
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I would be more than happy to have such a disk which formats the hard drive in 10 seconds and that washes the dishes and vacuum too.
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Fact: Whatever this "magic floppy" does it CANNOT POSSIBLY properly format a disk in 10 seconds. Also, when format is run, it requires a positive answer to the warning message so it cannot happen automatically.
The probable reason it won't work for 98 is that a genuine 98 startup disk creates a virtual drive for loading temporary of files which the 95 disk doesn't. Without this the 98 install will report missing files etc.
I don't mean to be rude Amber but from your response #9 if looking at the floppy to see file extensions or the contents of a .bat file is beyond your capabilities then frankly I think trying to give you instructions to make this floppy work for 98 is futile.
Go to bootdisk.com and get a 98 boot disk.
Just how many times do you envisage re-formatting any way ?
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Hey, where do I sign up to get one of them formatting, dish washing, vacuming disks? Would be nice to pop it in and go take a nap and wake up and have windows reinstalled and house clean too!!!! WOW!! Better be looking for a patent for it.
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Got some real smart asses out here.She was being nice and only trying to get some decent help.Sorry Amber, some have no class!
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At the end of the day the only person who gave Amber any help at all in reponse to her ACTUAL QUESTION was Smiffy !
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mark and Dan thank you .I don't think I will be back here.People are just too cruel for my taste!I was only hoping for some answers not to be made fun of!GOOD BYE
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Hey ppl get a life, show some respect. She is just asking for your help, if you can't do that then don't post your message.
However, I would like to make comments on Smiffy's post i.e. post # 19:
While booting Win98 from a Startup Disk, the disk creates a RamDrive in C drive (according to Smiffy virtual drive) through Setramd.bat file to accommodate additional files/drivers. The additional files are compressed in EBD.cab that extract during the boot process.
If anyone boots an IBM/IBM compatible system from a floppy disk then it doesn't make any difference if the system boots from any version of MS DOS, Dr.DOS, IBM DOS/PC DOS or from any Windows BootDisk/Startup Disk or it creates a RamDrive or not. Even old IBM systems boot from BIOS directly (the same technology is adopted in PalmTops i.e. the whole OS is on a firmware). The only thing matter is if the hardware supports the OS or not.
As far as the format messages are concerned, they can be avoided through a format command switch i.e. Foramt a:/ AutoTest (an undocumented switch). The format doesn't prompt you for a disk, a volume labele, or ask if you want to format another disk. It doesn't even display the usual disk-space listing.
The bottom line is, as the information provided above is not sufficient and w/o looking the actual floppy disk’s files it's hard to suggest for an accurate solution. NQ
PS: Trying to fix a problem via the Net on just words alone is the hardest way of trouble- shooting a computer problem.
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I too, have a floppy similiar to what Amber mentioned.I know with me, I do NOT have to type anything during the format except one letter and then again when the installation of windows begins.(Perhaps this is what she was tryin to say)
Some of you people here are real jerks! If anyone has any intelligence on this post it's NQ.!Some of you others need to learn some respect and manners infront a woman or don't post back to their request.ASSHOLES!
JB
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Talk about a JERK. You apparently are inacapable of attempting communication without resorting to inane profanity. Destroys one's credibility, old chap, so please don't thibnk yourself so righteous. I seriously doubt that you know what this wonderful disk does, either.
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Hey JERK.I was stating a fact.Some of you idiots really came down on her and she was merely asking for some help not to be hammered and you are just another one of the inconsiderate jerks here.
JB
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Xlist Thought you were on disagreeing with me here.I do believe all women should be treated with repsect no matter what their age should be.Kinda hate to see a woman being put down in asking for help and when I stated some as being assholes to her, I believe they were!If you agree than we are cool.
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You're right on the money Johnny!I was raise in the same manner.Gotta say that NQ was a gem.Glad he spoke up too!
B.....
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Yes, let's all protect the females. And when they take x percentage of your income and try to put you in jail or sue you, the protection will be especially noble.
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As all five fingers of a hand can't be alike. Similarly, people wheather they are men or women can't be alike. However, it's not difficult to identify them, even on the Net.
'ITS NICE TO BE IMPORTANT BUT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE'.
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