Kathy,
You may have already tried this, but if not, boot up the
laptop with a win95 rescue disk or one with FDISK.EXE on
it. When you run FDISK from the DOS prompt, be sure to
delete any existing partitions (probably labeled as a
"NON-DOS" partition if left over from win98.) Then,
re-boot the laptop with your "Windows 95 Startup Boot
Disk" and let it partition and format the hard disk the
way it wants.
No guarantees, but if you haven't tried it that way, it
can't hurt. Might even work... it's worked for me before.
Tom Fosson
At 01:06 AM 1/18/99 -0800, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>I am attempting to re-install Win95 on a Compaq laptop. I have just wiped
>the hard drive [Win98 had been there] and am booting off A: with the Win95
>boot floppy. I have copied the Win95 CDROM files onto a zip disk - as I
>couldn't find the CDrom driver when I was doing backup (the system was
>corrupted and would not allow me to show hidden files or file extensions -
>sigh - and i only recently thought, damn, i could've found it under DOS).
>
>I boot up; fine. I use Zip floppy to set up D as zip drive; fine. I
>initiate setup; fine.
>
>Then, in the first quarter of SetupWizard - I get this message [paraphrase]
>
>there is a problem with c:\wininsto.400\locale.inf. it is corrupted or not
>present. increase your swap filesize or free up memory.
>
>HUH?
>
>I got this error even after copying all the files on C: and trying to
>install from C instead of D.
>
>A couple times I got "cannot decrompress *.cab file"... but that went away
>after a couple of reboots. The swapfile error message is persistent (4
>attempts to install windows for a total of *6* attempts).
>
>Suggestions or help appreciated. Throwing the computer out the window is,
>unfortunately, not an option.
>
>
>Kathy
>writing [whining] from her Mac and wondering how in the hell wintel came to
>dominate the computing world
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