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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / November 2003installing over Linux
The computer my Win95 came with is dead. I have been given another computer which was running Mandrake Linux and I have tried to remove Linux and install my windows 95B. I thought I had sucessfully unpartitioned and re partitioned the drive (Fdisk showed only the Primary DOS partition) but when I try to intall Win95b I get the message that 'setup found a compressed volume or a disk- cache utility on my computer.' I don't know enough about Linux to know what to do now. As far as I know there is no compressed drives or utilities, but I want Win95b NOT Linux on my computer. > The computer my Win95 came with is dead. I have been > given another computer which was running Mandrake Linux [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > no compressed drives or utilities, but I want Win95b NOT > Linux on my computer. Memac: Microsoft's version of FDISK often has problems dealing with partitions created with non Microsoft versions of FDISK. You have several options. - Use a set of LINUX boot floppies to delete all the partitions. - Use "ZAP" to delete the partiption table from the drive http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe - Use DOS's DEBUG to write zerows to the partition table using this script: http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/hdclear.htm HTH & GL John  Signature\\\\\// "Don't take life so seriously... | | ...it's only a temporary condition." (.) (.) ========================================oOO==(_)==OOo== ________________________________ | John G. Dulak | | Gnomeway Services | /)| E-mail me from my home page at:|(\ / )| telerama.com/~jdulak |( \ _( (|________________________________|) )_ ((( \ \ > /_) ( \ < / / ))) (\\\ \ \_/ / \ \_/ / ///) \ / \ / \ _/ \_ / / / \ \ > The computer my Win95 came with is dead. I have been > given another computer which was running Mandrake Linux [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > no compressed drives or utilities, but I want Win95b NOT > Linux on my computer. the bootdisk you are using may be loading smartdrive opr perhaps a compression driver try a new bootdisk such as you can get from www.bootdisk.com Get yourself a copy of win98 fdisk or DR-DOS fdisk, or free-dos FDISK, all available in some form from www.bootdisk.com . Or go get a copy of MAXLLF.EXE and low-level format your drive. > The computer my Win95 came with is dead. I have been > given another computer which was running Mandrake Linux [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > no compressed drives or utilities, but I want Win95b NOT > Linux on my computer. |
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