hdd won't take win95A because of compression...

[carolinaboy]

my friend says he has used no compression software whatsoever, but every time i try to load windows 95A onto his hdd, it says there is some sort of compression agent on the drive and i need to uncompress it with the software originally used to compress it. i have written zeroes to the drive and get the same message. am i doing something wrong?

 

[evergreen96]

This only occurs when you formatted the HD with OS that is greater than the one you used to format the drive. To fix this problem, i sugguest you reformatted the HD with 95A bootdisk Found here. However i think this verison of windows doesn't support HD >8GB and used the FAT intstead of FAT32

 

[Budman]

evergreen96 is right,win95A used Fat16 & if you formatted using fat32 it will not see the drive.

if you want Fat32 you'll need Win95B or later.

 

[kd7fhd]

If you are trying to install W95A onto a disk that has FAT32 partitions, it won't work.

Like evergreen96 said, fdisk your hd again but say NO to the FAT32 question.