I would create 2 primary partitions both smaller than 2GB at the beginning of the disk. The boot disk images should be available online somewhere, or I may have them stashed in a corner of my hard drive. Since you mentioned you have a floppy drive, it should be easy to boot whichever version of MS-DOS you want. A Win95/Win98 boot disc should be able to partition a 40GB hard drive. I would first try a DOS version that is older than Win95, say, MS-DOS 6.22, but there's a good chance it won't work because the HDD is too large. Partition the target hard drive under DOS. Wipe the partition table of the target hard drive.Ģ. If that still doesn't work, I would do the following:ġ. The first thing to try is to wipe the partition table and let setup partition the hard drive for you. IMO the simplest solution that definitely will work is to set up a virtual machine with Win95. I have been messing with getting the specific program to work under XP quite a bit, but have given up now I aim for the simple (?) solution, which I *know* will work setting up another laptop with Win95 where I know that the specific program will run. WINDOWS 95 OSR2 AND BOOT FLOPPY IMAGES WINDOWSRay "Compatibility Mode" under Windows XP yes, I've already tried it, but it won't work (the program gives an odd error). I have however tried to boot on various DOS floppies, and to transfer the system to the C-drive ("sys c:" etc.), but didn't get this to work. (although I do have a 3.5" USB-floppy drive). Niel I don't have the Win98 bootable floppy. Now what? There's no LBA settings in the T42 BIOS, so I'm a bit left in the dark here?Īny hints and tips are very welcome - and I surely have a feeling that this project WILL succeed, through the help of the fantastic friendly members of this magnificent forum! The drive seems to be in perfect working order, when accessed through the Hiren's mini-XP. The drive is reporting to 37 GB space in Hiren's mini-XP (it's a 40 GB drive). It has been formatted with FAT32 (again, after having booted the T42 on mini-XP via Hirens Boot-CD). WINDOWS 95 OSR2 AND BOOT FLOPPY IMAGES INSTALLThe HDD in the T42 (onto which I intended to install Win 95) is an old (4200 rpm 2.5" IDE/PATA) Hitachi Travelstar the specific model is IC25N040ATMR04-0 and the drive is further labeled P/N 08K0862. If you are sure your drive is configured correctly, click Continue to have ScanDisk check drive C for errors. Data loss can occur if your LBA setting or disk partition type for this drive is misconfigured.Ĭheck your computer's BIOS setup utility, or contact your computer manufacturer, or have your computer checked by a qualified computer hardware technician. Drive C may need to have Logical Block Addressing (LBA) enabled to work properly, or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. This cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Should I move this thread?Ĭode: Select all ScanDisk cannot read from the last cluster on drive C. PS: I didn't quite know if this should be posted in this, the T4x, conference or in the "Windows OS (Versions prior to Windows 7)" conference. Thanks in advance for any hints in relation to whether is IS possible (or not?) to install Windows 95 on a T42/p, and if so, how this is done? Then, I will be able to happily celebrate Christmas! so rather than messing more with this, I simply wish to configure an old spare-T42p with Windows 95 (if possibly!), and then install the specific program from the 755CE on the T42p. The reason for asking is that I wish to set up a backup-laptop for an old IBM 755CE that I have and use from time to time this 755CE is running Windows 95 and there's one specific program on it that I haven't managed to get to run on later Windows versions. so I hope someone "ol' timer" will perhaps chime in on this. What to conculde from this? I have Google'd around a good bit to find the answer to the question asked in this thread, but with no success. WINDOWS 95 OSR2 AND BOOT FLOPPY IMAGES DRIVERSAs indicated by the thread title I am wondering if Windows 95 can possibly be installed on a T42/p, and if so, how this is done? According to Detailed specifications - ThinkPad T42, T42p the T42/p's will not (officially!) support Windows 95, but on the other side at the page Drivers and software - ThinkPad T42, T42p several Windows 95-compatible drivers for T42/p's are mentioned.
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