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Answer» Thank you for looking at my thread. Three major releases of Windows 95 were made. The first edition does not support FAT32, nor enhanced FAT (for support beyond 8 GB). OSR2 is a separate version, but was never provided as a free upgrade. Do you have OSR2 ? Quote Windows 95 does not support FAT32. Just to clarify... Quote Version Number Version Supports FAT32? To determine what ver. is installed in Windows Explorer clik Help/About WindowsWindows 2000 uses NTFS, which Windows 95, in any incarnation, will not support. The key to getting it recognized properly by Windows 95 is to repartition the drive. All data from the W2K install will be lost. reboot Windows 95 into MS-DOS mode. type fdisk. Now you should be presented with a menu containing 5 options- to start, you want to select option 5, "Change Current Fixed Disk Drive". If this is the second physical drive (which by your description it is) you will want to enter 2 here, but do double-check the listing presented by fdisk to select the proper disk. With the W2K drive selected, you can now proceed to delete the partition. Note that although Windows 95 should recognize the full size of the drive you might only be able to create 2GB FAT partitions if you are using a pre OSR2 win95. In any case, proceed to delete the partition(s) present on that drive, (option 3). If it says "no partitions to delete", proceed to creation. Otherwise, delete the partitions present. Now proceed to create new partition(s) using option 1. Note that you can create 4 "Primary DOS partitions" on that drive. (difference between Primary and extended pretty much being that extended partitions cannot be set as active). After that, you can create an extended partition consuming as much space as possible and create the rest of the partitions that way. I hope this helps. Just make sure on the deletion pages that you aren't looking at C: partition, and you should be fine. of course- any problems and just post back and we'll see what we can do Just to clarify Win2K also had a FAT32 option.Quote from: patio on February 17, 2009, 06:32:40 PM Just to clarify Win2K also had a FAT32 option. true, but given the circumstances it could be either, and really the same info applies in both cases- it definitely appears to not be recognized, and assuming it is properly installed (which can be confirmed or denied during the POST or by fdisk) a very plausible avenue of attack. Now if he has OSR2...I'm just having random moments of clarity...that's all....... Maybe he should clarify his objective. In general, having a dual-boot of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 would be a better choice. Getting a real Windows 95 OSR2 disk is had to do. SO, does he have a real need for Windows 95? Or is it just a challenge to see if it can be done? As I DIMLY recall, both Captain Keen and Jill of the jungle work well on Windows 98. And if you had all the series of those two games, What else would you want? I don't think he wants to dual boot, and if he did things would get messy. And it's Commander keen Billy Blaze, really....Wow Patio, Geek-9pm and BC_Programmer, thank you for your responses everyone. I understand a lot better now what Im doing. Patio I see the way it should be set up correctly... needless to say I didnt set it up that way, so thanks for that explanation and graphic. I'll check those numerics when I can to see if the O/S is original or win95 1, 2, 2.1 as I go through all of this. In no particular order, to make it clearer for all, I dont need or want a dual boot. It was just that the two drives have different O/S's on them. I just wanted to improve the size total of the drive, and get another drive to work in the computer.. I have other drives of about 4 Gig I can use, so I'll get rid of the 10 for this computer and save it for a more modern build then. Now I did see on the screen at one stage something about not a Fat32, so I guess that answers one query. Geek - 9pm, yes I'll try that way too of setting them up..ie: on a different cable, (seeing the CD drive doesnt actually work at this time). The drawer work eject, so a change required there I found out. May as well try the other drive set up one that cable. BC_Programmer, a full and complete response as always, with explanations of "what happens when I" .....oops didnt want to do that. So saved a lot of heartache for me there thanks.Thank you all for the help. I have a bit of work to go through now to see if I can make this sucker fly. Once again thank you for the clarity of your answers. ImnoGuru Hope you get it to work right for what you want. You mentioned a problem with the CD ROM ejection. That is a very old issue, but the drive may still be sue full. {edit to reduce louness.} There was an additional tool needed in Windows 95, but was never officially released Is was the CD eject tool. The software implementation did not work well and never got into beta. However, the hardware had no such issues. But for reasons not reveled the hardware was not released. There was an issue about the parent rights. But sience it has now been over 17 years, you can have one of these without paying any royalties. That's unneccessarily LOUD... Also- all the info presented re: fdisk should be just as APPLICABLE with the 4GB. I'm sure you can connect the dots and realize that in that case it will be what I referred to as the W2K drive in my post Yes Geek-9pm, I had that tool when I first had problems many years ago. I have one in an old toolbox I found under a bench in the garage. So I'll just dust it off and try it again. Actually I took the easy way out on this one and took the CD drive out all together. As always everyone a satifactory result, thanks to the combined help from all at CH. Many thanks, my mum will be pleased. I loaded some simple games on the computer and office and at 75 years old Im sure thats more than enough for her to comprehend and absorb for the time being. ImnoGuru |
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