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Solve : Win95 installed, trouble booting up?

Answer» <html><body><p>I installed Windows 95 alongside Vista on my 2 GB RAM laptop, and am having a bit of trouble getting it to start. I'll start with the most basic problems:<br/><br/>1. Right now when I choose Win95 from the Vista bootloader (I've set it up, it works OK with MS-DOS), I get an error "Non-system disk or disk error". Only I don't have a floppy drive, and I don't have anything in the CD drive. I would think it's my mouse or headphones, but DOS 6.22 and MS-WIN 3.11 started fine with them connected, and this still occurs with no peripherals connected.<br/><br/>Probably on a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/similar-1207900" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SIMILAR">SIMILAR</a> problem, when I tried to install Windows 98, I got to 61% of the second step when it said "Please insert a diskette into drive B:" along the top of the screen and wouldn't let me <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/continue-409821" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONTINUE">CONTINUE</a>. Not only do I not have a diskette drive, I don't have a "B:" drive, either.<br/><br/>2. Before the above error, I kept getting "Insufficient memory to initialize Windows" errors. I added <br/><br/>Code: <a>[Select]</a>MinFileCache=32768<br/>MaxFileCache=32768<br/>to SYSTEM.INI, after reading Win95 sometimes has trouble with more than 48 MB of memory, but b/c of problem #1 am not yet sure this has fixed it. I'll need about 384 MB eventually as well, hopefully I'll be able to get that.<br/><br/>3. Windows Protection Errors. But I think I need to solve #2 before this one.<br/><br/>The aforementioned "Please insert a diskette into drive B:" is keeping me from upgrading to Windows 98. I think it wants to make a Win98 boot disk when it says this, but I don't really know.<br/><br/>Windows 3.11 was working fine, except in Standard Mode instead of 386 Enhanced Mode. When I tried to setup the Internet, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/trumpet-713357" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRUMPET">TRUMPET</a> Windsock said I was using 75-80% of my memory - I definitely think it had memory issues, but perhaps was able to fit in 2 MB or 640KB.<br/><br/>Yeah, lots of problems. Had Win3.11 working, maybe I can get back to there and start from square 3 again.<br/><br/>Here's my Autoexec.bat:<br/><br/>Code: <a>[Select]</a>C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X<br/>@<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/echo-11626" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ECHO">ECHO</a> OFF<br/>PROMPT $p$g<br/>set mouse=C:\Mouse2<br/>C:\Mouse2\mouse.exe /Q<br/>PATH C:\MOUSE2;C:\DOS;<br/>SET TEMP=C:\DOS<br/>LOADHIGH=C:\DOS\MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD001<br/><br/>and Config.sys:<br/><br/>Code: <a>[Select]</a>DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE<br/>DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS<br/>DEVICEHIGH=C:\Dos\oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001<br/>DOS=HIGH<br/>FILES=30<br/><br/>MS-DOS was working before I tried the Win95/98 upgrade - somehow it now thinks I have a non-system disk in a floppy drive when I <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/try-1428546" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TRY">TRY</a> to start it up</p></body></html>


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