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Solve : Win 95 startup problems?

Answer» <html><body><p>I have an <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/old-585313" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about OLD">OLD</a> ACER computer running win95 on an old 500MB hard drive.It previously ran win 98 ok on a different HD.<br/><br/>Ater the 'starting win95' message I get a message saying that win95 has been <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/stopped-3078245" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about STOPPED">STOPPED</a> from loading because of an incompatible MSDOS version.<br/><br/>I tried pressing the f8 key during the win95 start message but just recieved a mesage saying that there wasn't enough conventional memory.<br/><br/>Any ideas?Windie:<br/><br/>Sounds like you are booting to the Windows 98 DOS and then running the Windows 95 setup.  This cannot be done, as Windows 95 uses a different version of DOS than windows 98.  <br/><br/>Instead, use the Windows 98 floppy boot disk to format the hard drive with FAT (if you have the original release of Windows 95) or with <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/fat32-456473" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FAT32">FAT32</a> (if you have Windows 95 OSR2), then install Windows 95.  <br/><br/>CAUTION: Formatting the drive will delete all files on it.<br/><br/>Let us know if you need more help,<br/>DocBTW: Many computer <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/repair-1185018" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REPAIR">REPAIR</a> shops will sell you a 4 GB hard drive really cheap, which will give you eight <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/times-344892" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TIMES">TIMES</a> the hard drive space.  <br/><br/></p></body></html>


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