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| Answer» <html><body><p>Hey dont know if anyone remebers my last post but I have/had a project on this old laptop that has windows 95 I was concerned about saving the data but now I am not I just want to get the most out of this very old laptop.<br/><br/>I have windows 95 CD and windows 98se somewhere. I would like to konw which is best. Or I can do linux the thing is the software I want to run can go on windows or mac so if I do linux it would have to be able to run an emulater (dont know if the hardware will support it).<br/><br/>Here is everything I know about the laptop.<br/><br/>Compaq Armada 1505 Dm<br/>Pentium MMX (i think it is 200mhz)<br/>64 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/ram-237877" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RAM">RAM</a> <br/><br/><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/problem-25530" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PROBLEM">PROBLEM</a><br/>Windows will not start because I renamed a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/critical-427694" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CRITICAL">CRITICAL</a> folder. <br/><br/>All advice welcome.<br/><br/>What critical folder? How and why did you do this? Why don't you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/rename-613846" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RENAME">RENAME</a> it <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/back-389278" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BACK">BACK</a> again?<br/>Quote from: mrhobbeys on January 16, 2008, 01:02:41 AM</p><blockquote> I was getting an error about an iso file during start up but because I was trying different things I had read on other sites and now I have a bigger problem because I can no longer start in safe mode. I have found a Win 95 cd <br/>INFO:<br/><br/>Compaq Armada 1505DM<br/><br/>Horrible bios with out normal function so I can not boot from the CD <br/><br/>64 MB mem<br/><br/>100-200 mhz<br/><br/>starts with only mem check afterwards Makes noise that suggest I can boot from the floppy (no floppy drive on my computer, although I could put one in if I have too<br/><br/>after that I see the win 95 screen then a few sec later says:<br/><br/>While initializing device IOS:<br/>Error: An I/O subsystem driver failed to load.<br/>Either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt,<br/>or the system is low on memory.<br/><br/><br/>When safe mode was working one of the things I tried was renaming the suspected folder as I had read that somewhere else I now know that was a huge mistake. <br/><br/>Please help......<br/><br/></blockquote><br/>I can get it to work in the comand prompt mode where you see C:\><br/>I tried selecting the Drive D (CD I think) and typing setup for the Win 95 but that did not work it said there is no directory for the drive. I dont know how to use this system to rename folders tell me what to type and I will do it.<br/><br/>I have a floppy drive now on my computer but all of the disks I have tried will not format so I could not make a win 95 boot disk that I found on bootdisk dot com.<br/><br/>Thanks muchbumpbumpbelieve me, pal, bumping will get you nada.<br/></body></html> | |