Formatted: Installing Win95

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

I have a Pentium 167 mhz that I am trying to put together. It has a Maxtor 15 gb hard drive. Originally, (5-6 years ago) there was a virus on it. I formatted it 2 days ago and removed all partitions from the drive. I ran fdisk and created one main partition as a primary drive. Now after booting up with a boot disk, I would try and isntall windows 95. I have the CD so I put it in, with CD-ROM enabled.
At the A: prompt, I go to the E: drive which is the CD-ROM drive. I run setup.exe, and it would say this:


E:\>setup.exe
Please wait while Setup initialiazes.

Setup is now going to perform a routine check on your system.

To continue, press ENTER. To quit Setup, press ESC. (I push Enter)


This version of Microsoft ScanDisk will work only with MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later.
Setup found a compressed volume or a disk-cache utility on your computer. Quit Setup and check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove the disk-cache utility.
Then run Setup again.

If you have already done so, press ESC.


To quit Setup, press ENTER. To continue with Setup, press ESC.

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If I push ESC, it will go to the Win95 installation screen, but after the "Agreement" section, I would push Yes and the computer will freeze.
Does this have to do with what was said above, with the compressed volume/disk-cache utility? Or am I doing something wrong. I just want to install Win95 on the machine.

[Janus]

should just install 98 se. at least thats what i recommend. even though ur computer is a bit *cough* slow, it would probably run a little better. but do what una said that looks right to me if u want to stay with 95.

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

I do not have any Win98 CDs. I am pretty sure this is the first Windows 95. I tried the setup with those commands it and still froze.

I am confused with the compresed volume/disk-cache utility.

Right now there are 4 drives.
A: Floppy
C: Main
D: RAMDRIVE
E: CD

Could I get rid of everything on the hard drive and start over? If so how, maybe that could solve the problem.

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

Ok, I tried that and it still froze after the agreement screen.

I have such bad luck. bleh

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

I did everything. It still froze. But this time after I did the copy from the CD to the C:\win95 folder. After the Agreement screen, the floppy drive would spin a couple times and then it would freeze again.

[Firegod]

try windows me. (remember guys this isnt a flame forum)

my specs are

Pentium 1 200
64 megs of ram


other than that if you sort meet it (processor i know you do) you should have little trouble, (active desktop hates p1)

Fire

[Janus]

are u sure that the cd u are using does not have any scratches or faulty files on it. have u used the disk to install before? is it a legal disk or copied?

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

The CD has no scratches on it and this is my second time using it. I don't have Win ME. And Una, where in the bios would I go to set the memory?

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

:/

[Zexel]

what are you going to use this box for irc?

[IcEbuRnZ 5]

No set it up so my sis/parents can use it for an assortment of stuff.. Mostly e-mail, etc.