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HI everyone! After playing with win 3.1 for a while and installing calmira, I now want to install win 95 (upgrade it from win 3.1). I have a diskette version of win 95, but it seems that they became corrupt as I left them running around *cries* :( I donwloaded win 95 disekette version from the net (it's legal, I have the origninal) and all require to format floppy's to 1.64mb. I went to the stora and bought all the floppys I could find. when I tried to format the floppy with winimage and other programs, they all gave an error. I tried other floppy's with same result. Sector not found or something. I split all the cab files and copied them to my 3.1 system. I ran the setup from the hd, and it all went ok until I arrived when I had to choose what type of installation I want i.e compact etc.. than it brings an error which states wrong disk.. :( I think it's searching for the DISK2 label, which of course can't be found :( Any help or suggestion would be accepted :0) till than cheers.
Main System => Intel Pentium PIII 450Mhz, 192Mb ram, 15Gb HD. Win XP.Laptop => Intel 486SX 20Mhz, 20mb ram, 500mb HD. Win 3.1 W Calmira.
There is no way around the disk format size. The DMF format was designed to hinder illegal copying.
I used to use Maxidisk to create backups of those flimsy disks. This program costs $25 US. Hunting around might yield an earlier version that was released a shareware. Alternately, you might be able to find a no longer needed CD for a lower cost.
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Hi markborg, Rimfire
For what it's worth... MAXI Disk Product Info, Rimfire's alternative is more inviting as long as the Manual Windows 95 Registration Card and End User License Agreement (EULA) Windows 95 Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) with Product Key are included.
(http://www.herne.com/mdisk1.htm)Best Regards and Wishes,
The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com
Above is a temporary address
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You might check this thread:
http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/160033.html
It discusses formatting the disks as 1.68 meg. As I mentioned in #11 there, using winimage and formatting DMF as 'cluster 2048' created disks that worked for extracting the images.
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I have had good luck with a small freeware called Superformat 2.7, it will format floppies to 1.66. It is found here http://www.freebits.co.uk/download/sformat.zip
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I believe DAVEINCAPS and The Count are correct.
I don't know if your trying to make the DMF disks on a computer With NTFS Operating system like......
NTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Windows versions 95, 98, 98SE and ME cannot natively read NTFS filesystems, although third-party utilities do exist for this purpose.
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Main System => Intel Pentium PIII 450Mhz, 192Mb ram, 15Gb HD.Win XP.
I happened to notice your main system.
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Well tks for all the replys :0) I think I will have to buy a new 0s 95 floppy disks.. I do not have a cd rom :( anyway tks all :0) cheers
Main System => Intel Pentium PIII 450Mhz, 192Mb ram, 15Gb HD. Win XP.
Laptop => Intel 486SX 20Mhz, 20mb ram, 500mb HD. Win 3.1 W Calmira.
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Well, if getting the disks formatted as DMF (1.68 meg) is the only problem then I know winimage will work. I haven't tried the other utilities mentioned but I'd think they'd work too.
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DAVEINCAPS-I have never had a problem with Winimage.
I just tried it on Windows xp and NTFS. It still came out as a fat File System.
My mistake=markborg shouldn't have any problem using Winimage and should have
no need to buy new win95 floppy set.
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Yeah, as far as I know all dos/windows floppy disks are FAT12. So it shouldn't matter from which OS they were formatted.
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markborg if you want I can email you an image of the disk which does work using winimage. PM me if you want (mine is the 14 disk set, disk1 Bootdisk, disk2-13 setup disks).
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