Hello Everybody,
My problem in brief:
After installing ms dos, and then win95 everything works fine, until i
try to boot in into dos with f8. After booting once into dos succesfully
the system does not boot anymore at all. fdisk /mbr, does not help, even
formatting the primary partition did not help.
I had to delete and recreate the partition.
The only reason i can think of is, that im using a 60gb hard disk, that
was limited (via jumpers) to 32 gb , in order to be detected by the bios
(award modular 4.5.1...) Any ideas?
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Details:
The system is a Pentium II MMX, 300 Mhz with a 60GB Seagate Disk and
32mb ram.
My intention was/is to set up some retro-system in order to play old games.
I did the following:
1. The Harddisk was not detected by the Bios, (Award Modular 4.5.1) so i
set the jumper to limit it to 32GB.
2. With fdisk i created a primary partition C: with 500mb, where i
installed MS-DOS 6.22.
3. I installed the DOS CD-ROM Drivers & Set the BLASTER Enviroment var.
and everything worked allright so far -> Tested a couple of old Dos Games.
4. After that i run setup.exe from the (Microsoft Windows 95 with USB
Drivers) Disk and windows seemed to install properly. I set the install
directory to c:\win95 instead of the suggested c:\windows. As far as i
remembered (from updating win 3.1 to win95 a couple of years ago), that
was required in order to be able to boot into dos afterwards (with f4 or f
5. After rebooting a couple of times and setting everything up windows
seemed to work fine too.
6. After one of the following reboots i wanted to test if i can boot
into ms-dos with f8. It worked fine, and i was quite satisfied. Again i
tested some dos-games
. But now the big misterical issue:
7. After rebooting again, the pc hangs instead of showing:
Starting Microsoft Windows 95... (or whatever it says normally)
neither:
Starting MS-DOS... appears
There is no error message, just NOTHING happens.
I tried to reboot with CTRL-ALT-DEL and also turing the power off and
on, but everytime the computer hangs at that point.
8. I booted from a floppy, tried to run "fdisk /mbr" but this did not
fix the problem too. After booting from a floppy i could access all the
files and data on the primary partition.
9. I tried to run c:\win95\win.exe and got the blue-screen-of-death
saying: "Error initialising a VFAT Device. A Device/Ressource required
for VFAT is not present/available. System holds" (in my case the message
was in german, but i tried to translate it)
10. Finally, after even formatting the primary partition and running
ms-dos' fdisk /mbr the problem still occured. I deleted the primary
partition with fdisk and recreated it again, formatted c: and
reinstalled ms-dos , reinstalled windows95 and the same problem appeared.
I reproduced this already three times, but have no clue what is causing
the problem
. The only reason i can think of, is something about the
60GB hard disk, limited with the jumper to 32gb...
Id appriciate any suggestions.
Thank you in ADvance,
michael.
Microsoft Windows (other)