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Windows 95. Seriously

blackmomba said:
Might be a little late and wrong but don't you need MS DOS before installing windows 95?
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only if your using an "upgrade to windows 95" disk, then youd need an exhisting OS. altho it would be easier even in this situation
 
So doing a backup to the Sd HDD didnt work, it saved everything in a weird format :(

iam trying to litteraly copy and paste the entire Hard drive to the Sd and it shouldnt take long.. only a year
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Jpat said:
my xp disk confuses it
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XP is bad, it uses NTFS filesystem, which does not work on 95/98. Win 98 disk might just be your ticket. Or you find a custom boot disk that includes CD-rom drivers.
 
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travm said:
XP is bad, it uses NTFS filesystem, which does not work on 95/98. Win 98 disk might just be your ticket. Or you find a custom boot disk that includes CD-rom drivers.
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i have been trying to get ahold of some youtube collectors to get copies made, may take awhile
 
One last small update. i took the Hard drive out of the good one and jammed it into the one iam trying to get working. it boots windows 95 perfectly. so if i figure out how to duplicate the hard drive thatll work too
 
windworld isnt working at all

Next thing iam going to try is using my XP computer to get an image of the good win95 hard drive and copy it to the SD
 
the kansas city link works fine for me. there is some kind of download counter built into the page. if you have an adblocker or something like that maybe its interfering.
 
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i disabled add blockers and it still wont work
i emailed Clint Basinger of LGR hooefully he gets back to me soon
 
i definitly want a modern PC i just cant justify how little ill use it, i have an xbox 1 ive never plugged in
when the right pc comes along ill probably buy it though
 
i did my best to copy the hard drive to the SD. reinstalled in the old PC, wont boot from the SD but i can access with the floppy boot disk, all the files are there but it wont use them
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is the sd card set as active? how did you format it?

edit: here a yt vid that shows 98se install which is essentially the same. youre probably going to have to redo the sd card and recopy or install fresh.
 
pendragon1 said:
is the sd card set as active? how did you format it?

edit: here a yt vid that shows 98se install which is essentially the same. youre probably going to have to redo the sd card and recopy or install fresh.
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its active, i can access it, i formatted it with fdisk, ill check that vid in the am thanks again
 
The pc committed suicide, it wont go past the start up logo anymore. Time for a new hobby
 
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Woke up, turned it on, booted fine into its old hard drive 🤣 why does this old gear have such a life of its own?
 
People mustve been some desperate to update to xp. whoever owned this PC updated from NT to xp, i bet they were some pissed when it ran like complete shit AND impossible to roll back to NT
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Jpat said:
People mustve been some desperate to update to xp. whoever owned this PC updated from NT to xp, i bet they were some pissed when it ran like complete shit AND impossible to roll back to NTView attachment 233286
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I almost skipped xp, ran Windows ME until 2005, worked great on my slot A Athlon 950
 
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travm said:
I almost skipped xp, ran Windows ME until 2005, worked great on my slot A Athlon 950
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i have never used windows ME, it seamed the people around me whent
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and then XP for like 15 years

I want to eventualy have them all
 
Jpat said:
People mustve been some desperate to update to xp. whoever owned this PC updated from NT to xp, i bet they were some pissed when it ran like complete shit AND impossible to roll back to NTView attachment 233286
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I once had to work on a Dell 1.5 P4 with 256 MB ram with integrated graphics on a 5400 hard drive. It ran XP so slow and badly I had to put more memory in it just to be able to get anything done on it.
 
Starfalcon said:
I once had to work on a Dell 1.5 P4 with 256 MB ram with integrated graphics on a 5400 hard drive. It ran XP so slow and badly I had to put more memory in it just to be able to get anything done on it.
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Hahaha they thaught they realy had something
 
It ended up the hard drive had something wrong with it too along with the usual viruses and spyware. I had no idea how they even used the computer as it was so slow. I ended up telling them just to buy a new computer, nothing worth salvaging in it.
 
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Starfalcon said:
It ended up the hard drive had something wrong with it too along with the usual viruses and spyware. I had no idea how they even used the computer as it was so slow. I ended up telling them just to buy a new computer, nothing worth salvaging in it.
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Haha i can imagine you working over the PC and a 15 year old praying you dont tell them where all the viruses and spyware came from

As creepy as it sounds i love finding used computers and going through it like an fbi agent 🤣
 
Jpat said:
Small update, i ordered a windows 98 bootdisk from ebay,
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that sounds sketchy af. i wouldnt trust it. i would have asked someone here near you to make and mail one for cost. do you not have a working computer with a floppy drive, that old xp one?
 
pendragon1 said:
that sounds sketchy af. i wouldnt trust it. i would have asked someone here near you to make and mail one for cost. do you not have a working computer with a floppy drive, that old xp one?
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There realy isnt any retro communitity near me, and an XP boot disk wont work

A modern boot disk would be sketchy but no one would realy have a motive to attack ancient computers, i wouldnt think
The ebay reviews were all very possitive
 
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