Copy cd to hard drive to install from?

[Fraggster]

I have a little problem, the cdrom and hard drive died, so i put a ~300mb hard drive with win95 in there but of course it asks you for the cd, i got one of those adapters to hook the laptop hard drive up to IDE and was wonderigng if theres any way to copy the 95 cd to the hard drive then install it like that?

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: Fraggster
I have a little problem, the cdrom and hard drive died, so i put a ~300mb hard drive with win95 in there but of course it asks you for the cd, i got one of those adapters to hook the laptop hard drive up to IDE and was wonderigng if theres any way to copy the 95 cd to the hard drive then install it like that?

make the hdd bootable by running sys x: (x: being whatever letter the hdd is)
copy the Win95 CD to the hdd
put the hdd into the laptop and start the laptop
run setup.exe

I'm not sure if 300MB will be enough space. You don't need to copy all of the directories from the Win95 cd. Just browse through it, and it will become pretty clear what you need and don;t need.

 

[Fraggster]

Originally posted by: timswim78

Originally posted by: Fraggster
I have a little problem, the cdrom and hard drive died, so i put a ~300mb hard drive with win95 in there but of course it asks you for the cd, i got one of those adapters to hook the laptop hard drive up to IDE and was wonderigng if theres any way to copy the 95 cd to the hard drive then install it like that?

make the hdd bootable by running sys x: (x: being whatever letter the hdd is)
copy the Win95 CD to the hdd
put the hdd into the laptop and start the laptop
run setup.exe

I'm not sure if 300MB will be enough space. You don't need to copy all of the directories from the Win95 cd. Just browse through it, and it will become pretty clear what you need and don;t need.

sys x: ? what do you run it? thats not a dos command

 

[Fraggster]

anyone else

 

[redbeard1]

Sys.com is a dos command. It is how you put the neccesary OS boot files in their proper place on a hard drive or floppy disk. On a windows 9x system it is located in the c:\windows\command folder. It is run from a command prompt.

The first thing you need to do is fdisk the drive you want to use. It has to be the only hard drive in the system when you set it up. That way when you run fdisk, you have the ability make the drive active. Otherwise if you have another drive in it that is already bootable with an active partition, then you can't set the second drive active. You will need a boot floppy to do this. If you don't have a win95 boot disk, the win98 start up disk could get the partition created, as this disk has fdisk on it. The partiton needs to be a primary partition.

So assuming you have the partition created. Now you need to format the drive. You can hook your original working drive back up and do this from windows. Find the drive partition you just created in "my computer" and right click on it and then check the "full format" box and the "copy system files" box. You need to do this from either a working win95 or win98 system. This will get it so it is bootable. After this proceedure is done, you can copy the win95 folder from the cd to that hard drive. Then you can put the hard drive back in to the system and it should boot to a c:\ and from there you would type c:\win95\setup. This would start the setup process for the install.

 

[Fraggster]

cool thx