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Name: elmo
Date: February 28, 2001 at 20:27:09 Pacific
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i have 2.4 gb hard drive so i tried to upgrate from win 3.1 to win95 since that day im facing problem so i install win95 but when comes windows for 1 times is opening i see black screen with garbage in it so i did sys c: and attrib for msdos and sys file
its still dont work ?
any 1 can help



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Response Number 1
Name: Jer Kiddin
Date: February 28, 2001 at 20:30:16 Pacific
Reply:

I think I'm gonna be sick......


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Response Number 2
Name: stu505
Date: February 28, 2001 at 20:34:33 Pacific
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Huh?...


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Response Number 3
Name: HUH
Date: February 28, 2001 at 20:55:34 Pacific
Reply:

did you understand what you typed, cause I didnt?


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Response Number 4
Name: Jim Clark
Date: February 28, 2001 at 22:02:33 Pacific
Reply:

Love that name ELMO!

Hey Elmo! You CANNOT use the old Win 3.1 DOS commands like trying to transfer the SYSTEM to C drive with Win 95. That just doesn't work! If you are going to step up to a 9.X platform, you are going to have to start out with fresh thinking.

First of all, I would TOSS Win 95 if I were you, especially if it is a Version A or B disk...full of BUGS galore. You really need to have Version 2.1 or late of Win 95 which is an OEM version, and was never released retail.

My suggestion: get a Win 98 SE disk.

Now, Elmo, find a person with a computer who is already running Win 98 SE and make a FAT-32 enabled Boot Disk. Stick the boot disk in drive A and FDISK your hard drive. Next, FORMAT your hard drive with Fat-32 file system.

Now, you have a nice clean, partitioned and formatted hard disk to start a clean install of Win 98 SE.

You are going to need a Win 98 SE OEM version or a retail version for computers without a O/S on it.

You will get a special disk with this that boots you into the CD-ROM and initializes the Win 98 SE installation program.

Oh, and one other thing ELMO, people who are using Win 3.1 STILL...usually have really OLD computers with a BIOS that cannot handle a 9.X platform. I am suspecting, that your BIOS is ANCIENT and probably cannot even handle the Win 95 installation. If you are running ANYTHING LESS than a Classic Pentium 90, forget running any kind of 9.X platform.
I have seen it run on some old Classic Pentium 75 machines ok...but I would think that they are so SLOOOOWWWW, you wouldn't want to deal with it.

My suggestion...get a better machine. If you own a 486 or less...I would just junk the machine.



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Response Number 5
Name: elmo
Date: March 2, 2001 at 06:37:45 Pacific
Reply:

thxxx jem for ur pst msg ,,i have P pro 200 32 ram


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