Hi Sam,
I'm no expert, but I think you would at least
run into "Wrong version" errors with MS-DOS. I am not
sure if you can get around this with SETVER command or
not? I have not been very successful with the SETVER
command myself. What kind of machine are you trying to
use WIN95 on?
Eric
Sam Heywood wrote:
>
>Hello Arachnids:
>
>One of the major problems I have in trying to accomplish very meaningful
>and important tasks with a machine running Windows 95 and above is that
>the machine doesn't behave very well with the version of DOS that is
>installed into Windows 95.
>
>I have a proposed solution, but I hesitate to resort to this without first
>getting some advice from others who may have tried the same. Don't try
>this at home without first experimenting with this technique on a machine
>belonging to someone you might want to get even with.
>
>Here is what I have in mind:
>Given a machine with Windows 95 installed on a hard drive having a FAT 16
>partition, and the partition's size not being too big to be recognized by
>your favorite DOS version, would it be OK to boot to a floppy being a DOS
>system disk, and then fix the hard drive's operating system simply by
>doing "A>sys C:" Theoretically, that should fix it. Now my question is:
>would employing such a measure fix the hard drive "permanently", i.e,
>would I not easily be able to restore my original Windows 95 installation
>simply by re-booting to a Windows 95 system disk floppy and then using the
>SYS command again to transfer the operating system files back to the hard
>drive? Has anyone ever tried this?
>
>I await your replies with eager anticipation.
>
>Sam Heywood
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