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i formated floppies using winimage. i didnt know what to choose so i choose DMF (20??) cluster. now when it comes time to install, it gets as far as type of installation. typical, compact, etc. but then it says it cant read the setup disk. did i do something wrong? help is greatly apreciated.
The first disk should be a 'regular' 1.44Mb - the rest should be ok formatted in DMF with a cluster size of 2048, if that's any help.
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yeah, the first and last disks are regular and the rest are formated to 1.63mb 2048 clusters. i begin installation and it does ask for and read disk 2 but when it does time to choose the type of installastion, it comes up with a disk read error, please make sure disk is in drive and the door is closed. the second to 12 disks only has cab files. mostly one but a few might have 2. could they be from the cd? i bought them off a friend and copied to my own disks so i have no information on them and nither does he. got any ideas? thanks.
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Sounds like bad disks or bad copies.
Might try scanning the disk(s) in a Win9x machine - older DOS has trouble reading DMF.
Possibly you might try copying the diskettes to a folder on the HDD and try to install that way, although you'd likely need to run a 'driver' like SMAX in order for your version of DOS to read DMF
That's the original floppy installation set - later versions of Windows were considerably larger - and kept growing.
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Is this a continuation of 160033 or a new one?
Were your disks made from the cd or the original floppies?
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As jboy says, suspect bad disks or bad copies. Or maybe your floppy drive is having a problem reading the non-standard disk.
I have the files available for upload as I indicated in the thread I referenced above.
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well i ran some disks through scandisk on a win 3.1 machine. later i ran each one through error checking on a xp machine. now some, mainly regular formated, came through fine. but all the DMF came up with a bunch of bad clusters. and the DMF formated disks, which says 2048 clusters, only showed 800 or so. but the regular formated ones said 2048. now i ran them again in xp and only disks 2 and 10 could not complete error checking. plus i started copying them to my hard drive just in case, and those were the only 2 not letting me. so can someone email me disks 2 and 10 please? thank you in advance.
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