Win95B Installation Question - What do I boot with to start - Win95A bootdisk or Win95B one?

[Borg20001]

Okay, I have a Cyrix 6x86L PR200 CPU and two Maxtor HDs, 20 gig and 4.3 gig, both currently formatted under Win95A. I want to wipe the 4.3 gig using Maxtor's Maxblaster software. Then I want to install on it, Win95B OS.

Since I am not a whiz at all this, I am relying on Maxblaster instead of fdisk.exe.

My question is, when I go to install Win95B onto the 4.3 gig HD, should I disconnect the 20 gig HD (I want to keep this one as it is with all my data, games, programs etc. on it - plus I don't have the capability to back it up) and set the jumpers on my 4.3 to be a Master (instead of the current slave setup) and then go to my BIOS and set it to just see the 4.3?

Then should I boot using the Win95B boot disk and then try to install the Win95B OS from the CD (presuming I can access the CD drive from just a boot disk)? Or should I boot from the Maxtor Maxblaster boot disk? Or should I boot from my old Win95A boot disk?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

[BadThad]

Maxblast is a fine utility...fdisk is not for most.

Your plan is fine. Just set the 4.3 as master/single and pull the cable off the 20 gig. Boot with EITHER boot disk, as long as it has CDROM drivers, and install away.

 

[BillyPackerFan]

If you are going through all this, you should look at Win98SE.

Well, I haven't used 95B for a while... However you may want to back up the user.dat and system.dat files (copy all *.dat, *.da0 and *.da1). These are hidden files that define your registry. If you do not backup/restore these files, then all the registry settings for software will be lost.

Good luck, MaxBlast may work depending on the HD model and MOBO (you may want to unplug the 20 gig before this). I have had several that Blast locked up. At that point I got the drives to work by using a bootdisk with fdisk, sys, and format. (Let me know if you need the step by step)

As far as the Bios settings for the HD's, set them all for Auto, if so equiped. Then unplug the 20 gig. If you used the maxblast software, it should have asked you for the 95B boot disk during the setup.

I believe you can boot with the 95B disk and it should load the Oaktech driver for your CDrom drive. Install from there.