Win 95 Help Installing?

[anti15]

Ok about 2 1/2 weeks ago my friend asked me come over to his house and help him with his computer. His computer was in terriable shape he had deleted alot of the nessary windows files. I tried the uninstall it did not work. I reformated his computer it worked fine but when I tried to reinstall Win 95 I rezlied my cd-rom drivers did not work. He has an old Pakcard Bell 1995. anywayz I looked and found the driver I tried to install it, it froze while it was installing it.I reformatted his hard drive again and went to install and I realized his hard drive was about 42mb short after the reformat. I tried to reinstall but I can not write to the hard drive. When I run scandisk it tells me one of the clusters is bad on it like 6653 or something so I hooked the hdd up to my computer and my computer writes to it ok but I can not install windows using my motherboard and his hdd either. I can not get to the cdrom drive on his computer. Ive tried messing with fdisk to find out if I put one on but I didnt. I dont know where the extra space went. All I want is to get win 95 back on and give it back. Boy thats what I get for trien to help him. Lol <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> after 2 weeks I have no more ideas please dose anyone have any ideas why its not working. ????????????/ please e-mail me or post back thanx. -joe

[cYbErAnKhAmUn]

<IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> Don't worry, we all know the feeling. Here's what I would do: Remove the HDD from your friends pc and install it into your own. Startup in2 a DOS prompt from the F8 menu and Fdisk it. REMEMBER to change drives in FDISK! Don't go & FDISK your own HDD! Restart and return to DOS prompt. Format the drive using the /s command (format [driveletter]: /s), this will make the drive bootable. Once formatted, make a new directory called Win95 ([driveletter]:\md win95). From your Windows 95 cd, copy all the files in the Win95 directory to the Win95 directory on your friends HDD. Stick the HDD back into your friends pc and reboot. If all went well, the disk will boot to the command prompt. Change to the win95 directory (C:\cd win95) and run setup. It will complain about Himem.sys etc., but press the Esc. key to ignore the message and continue.

Good luck! Let me know...

[3fingersalute]

Originally posted by cYbErAnKhAmUn:
<STRONG> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> Don't worry, we all know the feeling. Here's what I would do: Remove the HDD from your friends pc and install it into your own. Startup in2 a DOS prompt from the F8 menu and Fdisk it. REMEMBER to change drives in FDISK! Don't go & FDISK your own HDD! Restart and return to DOS prompt. Format the drive using the /s command (format [driveletter]: /s), this will make the drive bootable. Once formatted, make a new directory called Win95 ([driveletter]:\md win95). From your Windows 95 cd, copy all the files in the Win95 directory to the Win95 directory on your friends HDD. Stick the HDD back into your friends pc and reboot. If all went well, the disk will boot to the command prompt. Change to the win95 directory (C:\cd win95) and run setup. It will complain about Himem.sys etc., but press the Esc. key to ignore the message and continue.

Good luck! Let me know...</STRONG>

Forgot one thing, if he hooks it as a slave in his machine and partitions it, he will need to boot to a disk on his friends machine and set the partition active before it will boot!

[Sly]

If the o/s is 95b you can use a win98 startup disk to use his cd-rom. remember to install drivers for said cd-rom..

[cYbErAnKhAmUn]

Yeah bad_mojo, u 100% right! 4got about that! I'm sure he'll read your thread and pick it up from there. Thanks dude! <IMG SRC="smilies/cool.gif" border="0">

[Knucklehead]

Most of those old Packard Bells had that wonderful Aztech combo modem/sound/CDROM card (the computer from hell!!) and the 98 boot disk drivers won't work on it. The CDROM is proprietary and cannot be connected to the IDE channel and the modem is probably a 14.4. You might find it easiest to use the factory restore discs (aargh) and then upgrade to 98. Otherwise, by the time you find all the drivers and get this thing working, you may be suicidal. If this thing is even worth salvaging, its best to put in a new CDROM (IDE), sound card, and modem. At least you can reuse them on a newer system.

[Stalemate]

I've had some success using CD ROM God 55 on some older systems using POS CD drives (IBM Aptivas, etc.).

It could have the necessary drivers for your CD drive, but I haven't checked personally.

The previous advice is probably the most simple. If you add up the worth of the time you spent/can spend on this, it may be the cheapest too.

I'm assuming that, like most of us, you do not charge friends and family. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

[anti15]

Thanx all, No, I dont charge people but damn I already found the drivers off of here for the packards but this one must be too damn old. I hate working on old computer I told him its only worth about 50$ and with only 455mb of hdd *almost less ram than I have* I told him to buy him a new one but Ill try this and tell yall if it works thanx.