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I am trying to install Windows 95 Floppy Version on to an old Toshiba T4700CT laptop, I have the full 30 disk version. When it installs the setup disk it says Windows 95 cannot read Windows 95 setup. What is wrong can anyone help ?
Either bad floppies or a problem with the floppy drive - in other words, the usual reasons for read errors
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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Having looked in other forums it would appear that windows 95 uses a format called ms-dmf it enables disks to store 1.7mb on a single floppy. Hence the reason for it not being able to read the disk. As the laptop only has a 3.5 floppy am fairly restricted.
Im using windows xp on my main pcs and am now finding a util to format the disks to ms-dmf format.
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Dense Media Format is commonly used for M$ installation disks, true, but you seem to have taken a germ of information in an entirely incorrect (and bizarre) direction.
You don't require any special hardware in order to use those diskettes, (if indeed they are DMF) - that disk format is transparent to Win9x and beyond, and can also be read using DOS622 with appropriate driver loaded.
Shouldn't be an issue, the installation program takes care of that
"am now finding a util to format the disks to ms-dmf format."
Say what now? The disks are already formatted, right??
As already mentioned, best guess is a bad diskette - you might try a disk repair utility, although Scandisk (Win9x) is not able to repair DMF, iirc.
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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"am now finding a util to format the disks to ms-dmf format."
...and reformatting them destroys the data on them, so that won't help...
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I have tried to format the disks to ms-dmf but I still get the message Cannot Read Setup Disk is this a problem with the C drive of the Floppy setup disk? Took forever to convert the disks. HELLLPPP !!!!!
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Sorry to say, but you are not making a great deal of sense, and I would hazard a guess that you have no idea what you are doing.
You have made (and continue to make) some fairly bewildering statements - I would suggest you reread the responses here (and maybe give your head a shake)
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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 DVD driver required!
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