a friend at school said that whenever he tried to go into Control panel, explorer crashed and could I do anything to fix it?
it looked like it needed a good ole format so I told him to bring in some windows/office CD's etc..
The next day he brought in:
1 win95 CD
2 Win 98 CDs
1 Win Me CD
but forgot to bring in his reimage CD which is a more convenient method but has some crappy software that is a pain to remove and also needs windows preinstalled to be re-imaged.
So, I proceed to backup all his stuff(my crossover somehow died so we had to use a parralel and lost all his long file names, luckily, it was only 150MB so it only took 1/2 an hour) and formatted the machine. I run the first copy of win 98 and the cd drive started crapping up and saying the disk was dead so that one went in the trash. I put in the second win98 cd and up comes the boot screen for memphis(win98 beta1) so I think, maybe I should leave that one for later. Put in the Me disk and the setup program is trying to run something from the A: drive for some reason so that goes in the pile and I put the Win95 disk in. It turned out to be a copy of Win95a which doesnt support Fat32 so I sigh and try the memphis CD again. The install is happening smoothly and I leave it going... When I get back, it is ready to reboot for the first time and it reboots giving me a message saying that "memphis has passed it's trial date, please contact your vendor for another copy" It then shut down and refused to boot up again
so, another format later and I stick the Win95 CD in again and it was only then that i realised that it needed fat16 so ANOTHER format later and repartitioning the drive into 2 2gig drives so the I could install win95. It starts with the install and then it prompts me by asking where it could find a previous version of windows and then I realised that it was win95a UPGRADE so by that stage, It had gone through a whole school day and 3 of my spares to fix the bloody thing and I was about ready to give up. I repartitioned the drive back into a 4gig FAT32 again so that he could do a reimage at home. Finally, someone else from school said he had a win95 CD here so I tell him to bring it over thinking maybe we can finally get this over and done with. I put the CD in and I find out it is ANOTHE win95a. At this point I am completly buggered and just cannot be bothered so I just shut the laptop down and tell him I would do it on monday.
it looked like it needed a good ole format so I told him to bring in some windows/office CD's etc..
The next day he brought in:
1 win95 CD
2 Win 98 CDs
1 Win Me CD
but forgot to bring in his reimage CD which is a more convenient method but has some crappy software that is a pain to remove and also needs windows preinstalled to be re-imaged.
So, I proceed to backup all his stuff(my crossover somehow died so we had to use a parralel and lost all his long file names, luckily, it was only 150MB so it only took 1/2 an hour) and formatted the machine. I run the first copy of win 98 and the cd drive started crapping up and saying the disk was dead so that one went in the trash. I put in the second win98 cd and up comes the boot screen for memphis(win98 beta1) so I think, maybe I should leave that one for later. Put in the Me disk and the setup program is trying to run something from the A: drive for some reason so that goes in the pile and I put the Win95 disk in. It turned out to be a copy of Win95a which doesnt support Fat32 so I sigh and try the memphis CD again. The install is happening smoothly and I leave it going... When I get back, it is ready to reboot for the first time and it reboots giving me a message saying that "memphis has passed it's trial date, please contact your vendor for another copy" It then shut down and refused to boot up again
so, another format later and I stick the Win95 CD in again and it was only then that i realised that it needed fat16 so ANOTHER format later and repartitioning the drive into 2 2gig drives so the I could install win95. It starts with the install and then it prompts me by asking where it could find a previous version of windows and then I realised that it was win95a UPGRADE so by that stage, It had gone through a whole school day and 3 of my spares to fix the bloody thing and I was about ready to give up. I repartitioned the drive back into a 4gig FAT32 again so that he could do a reimage at home. Finally, someone else from school said he had a win95 CD here so I tell him to bring it over thinking maybe we can finally get this over and done with. I put the CD in and I find out it is ANOTHE win95a. At this point I am completly buggered and just cannot be bothered so I just shut the laptop down and tell him I would do it on monday.
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