cant install 95

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barry - 05 Jan 2004 05:16 GMT

For some reason when ever i try to install 95 to my
computer it keeps coming up with an error about
compresion and that some type of unkowen commpresion type
is there and this is on a formated hard disk although for
some reason whenever i format my hard disk there is still
a little bit of linux there and i cant seem to get rid of
it no matter how many times i format the hard disk
.

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philo - 05 Jan 2004 13:51 GMT

> For some reason when ever i try to install 95 to my
> computer it keeps coming up with an error about
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> it no matter how many times i format the hard disk
> .

why not completely wipe the disk and start over

do a quick google search and get the aefdisk.exe utility

the free trial version has many of the features disabled

however if you run aefdisk /delall it will *completely* delete
the drive no matter what was on there.

now you can use your regular dos/windows floppy to run fdisk
and re-create your active primary partition.
Note: win95a will reqire fat16 partitions of 2gigs or less

after that you must reboot, the format the drive ( just use "format C:
" )

since you had linux on the machine, if lilo or grub is in the mbr
you should also issue the command fdsik /mbr to wipe out the bootloader.

now you should be able to install windows

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