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Installing 95 with a 98 bootdisk
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Original Message
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Name: Bill Van Dyke
Date: June 7, 1999 at 09:05:31 Pacific
Subject: Installing 95 with a 98 bootdisk
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Comment: What problems could occur by using a Win 98 bootdisk and then installing Win 95?
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Response Number 3
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Name: mike winder
Date: June 7, 1999 at 10:35:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)and what if this boot disk was created from a fat32 win98 system ????? is there a slim chance the drives be fdisked
and formatted. ???
will it be as fat32 or fat ????? and what if the version of win95 is an early one????????? is there a chance it could be pre FAT32 ???
so will it be FAT16.??????
maybe other partitions will be created before the system goes on ??? after maybe??
can a fat16 drive see a fat32 drive ??? NO PROBLEMS eh ????? you do him no favours. I just hope he hasn't or that he's lucky. IT WON"T BLOODY WORK WILL IT
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Response Number 5
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Name: shredmeister
Date: June 7, 1999 at 13:46:08 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Ah yes, Mr. Winder has some good points. You won't have any problems IF you realize the differences between FAT32 and FAT16. Win95a does not support FAT32 so you must be sure of which version you have. Win95b (commonly known as OSR2) will see FAT32 partitions. If this is the version you have, then I would still FDISK and FORMAT with the Win98 boot disk to make sure your drive is FAT32 before installing. shred
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Response Number 6
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Name: Bill Van Dyke
Date: June 7, 1999 at 14:27:48 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yes this is the version of Windows I have, can't this same process be accomplished throught the use of the EZ-Drive software provided by Western Digital?
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Response Number 7
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Name: shredmeister
Date: June 7, 1999 at 19:13:26 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Sorry, I'm not familiar with that software. You might be able to do it with that, but it could be a low-level format utility. As I said, I'm not sure. Maybe someone else knows. Anyone? Anyone...? shred
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Response Number 8
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Name: Fox
Date: June 8, 1999 at 00:07:34 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Bloody English Humor! Anyway, it will work. If you need to FDISK using the FDISK utility on the Win98 bootdisk just answer N to the first question that pops up (which is telling FDISK not to support large drives (using FAT not FAT32)) if you have a earlier version of Windows 95. Other than that there are no problems as I have done this myself, several times. Regards, Fox
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Response Number 9
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Name: Bob-nb
Date: June 10, 1999 at 12:20:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)EZ-Drive will set-up and completely format the HD faster that any other method. Then you need not run fdisk, or format, but simply proceed with your loading of the OS.
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Response Number 11
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Name: Mark Wesbeek
Date: March 10, 2000 at 11:19:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)who got a windows 95 bootdisk?
i need it to instal windows 95 on the laptop.
Please send a zip file to ajwesbeek@chello.nl
with a bootdisk on windows 95. thanks
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Response Number 12
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Name: GARY CHISHOLM
Date: March 20, 2000 at 13:13:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)tried the bootdisk 98 but it says there where drive selected abort installation. no cdrom drives found.I have the cdrom driver disk but how do I install it after I push enter on the c:\cdrom and then it goes to express but can't find mscdex.exe in c:\
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