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buzzardbait24 - 17 May 2004 16:52 GMT

i am trying to install win 95 on a freshly reformated
hard drive, i have a boot disk grom bootdisk.com, but
when i put in r for the drive and then setup i get this
message....cannot create a temporary directory. If you
have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive you will
need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up
windows. What do i do??

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Sabrina - 17 May 2004 19:19 GMT

Hummm.... it seems like your partition is not an FAT
16/32 which Windows 95 need in order to install. Before
you get started make sure you have a Windows 95 or 98 boot
disk because the Windows Me boot disk is not base around
real MS-dos mode. To make a long story short, make sure
you have a Windows 95 or 98 boot disk.

Secondly, if you already formatted your partition (hard
drive/ C:), it may of formatted it to NTFS because it was
already a NTFS hard drive. In order to resolve this issue
you must boot into fdisk. You would simply type in fisk.
Once your in fdisk you would want to delete the primary
partition and then create a new partition, then format
it. If you have any trouble with fdisk do a search for it.

Hope this was a good help! :-)

>-----Original Message-----
>i am trying to install win 95 on a freshly reformated
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>windows. What do i do??
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Ron Martell - 17 May 2004 21:29 GMT

>i am trying to install win 95 on a freshly reformated
>hard drive, i have a boot disk grom bootdisk.com, but
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up
>windows. What do i do??

How did you reformat the hard drive? What boot disk did you use for
that purpose?

Did you install any BIOS overlay software so as to allow a large hard
drive to be installed in a computer that would not otherwise be able
to use a drive that large? A program such as MaxBlast, Disk Manager,
or EZ Drive?

Boot the computer again with the disk from bootdisk.com and at the
A:\> prompt enter the following command:

FDISK /STATUS

Post the results of that command back here.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

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jeno1 - 29 May 2004 03:04 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>i am trying to install win 95 on a freshly reformated
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>Buzz - sounds like you need to run fdisk from the A

prompt, create a new DOS partition and make it FAT 16.
Win95 won't install on an NTFS partition I don't think.

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