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OT: Trying to install Win95a Upgrade from diskette onto empty laptop

boetar

OT: Trying to install Win95a Upgrade from diskette onto empty laptop

by boetar » Mon, 03 Sep 2001 09:02:52

I think it only works with the Win95 upgrade.
boetard


> Boetard:

> Sorry about the off topic cross-post, but I do have an interest in this
> since I accidentally tossed out my Win95 disk, forgetting that I needed it
> for a clean install of Win98 Upgrade.  So your advice is that when the
> installation prompts for a qualifying prior version of Windows you type
> "c:\>DIR>NTLDR"?  Will this trick work with my situation, where I'm
> installing Win98 Upgrade?  (The proposed installation is a direct result
of
> my hardware upgrade to an AMD Thunderbird, just to give some semblance of
> ontopicality.)

> --
> -Scott



> > Type c:\>DIR>NTLDR   Then install Win95 as usual.

> > boetard



> > > I am trying to install Win95a (upgrade) from diskettes onto a Thinkpad
> 760
> > > with no CD-Rom and it wants a qualifying product. There was a way to
> > "trick"
> > > the program by creating a file called something like "win.386" or
> > "user.gdi"
> > > or something like that on the hard drive but I can not remember the
> > > procedure. Can anyone help here? There is no way to find a copy of
3.11
> > > around here.


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