re: Converting Windows 95 to floppy format
Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 9:20 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2107 messages posted)
Even the most basic Win95 install, on 13 "2 MB" floppies took the best part of forever
to install. I once had to run twenty installs with one set of floppies for a computer
class. What a disaster! I swore I'd never do it from floppies again.
But for less than $10, you can get an adapter to remove the laptop Hdd and connect
it as Slave to a desktop PC. Copy the \Win95 folder's contents from the CD to a
folder on the laptop Hdd, and use the "System" command to put a DOS 7 boot on there,
and you can run the install from that folder.
.
Kiwi
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 6:09 pm, Nick wrote:
>I have an old Texas Instruments Extensa 515 laptop that was giving to me a long
time
>ago. It has been gathering dust and I have decided to put it back into use, mainly
>for fun. I have windows 95 and 98, but the laptop originally had win95 on it but
>no longer does. I used to have a method for interfacing the HD to a desktop pc to
>install win 98 and discovered the laptop could barely handle it. I have since lost
>this capability and since the laptop only has a floppy drive, I have no way of installing
>my win 95 or 98SE OS to it. Long ago, I heard of a way to convert your CDrom to
a
>set of like 40 floppies for such installations. (I am too poor to buy floppy version,
>which I had too by the way, and one floppy was KIA, killed that method) So my question
>is, how do I convert the cd version of win9x to floppy only installation?
>
>I am currently running Vista, XP, and Win2k for my desktop pc's, so I have the resources
>to complete the task, just need instructions, thanks.
>
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