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How to move Windows 95 to a new hard drive with the
operating system intact
Here is a quick way to copy your operating system from one hard drive to
another for those moments when a backup isn't feasable, and a diskcopy utility isn't
available, or if there is a boot configuration incompatibility:
- Install the new hard drive as a slave to the first hard
drive.
- Boot up the system and configure the new drive, that is, the
secondary drive so that the system recognizes it.
- Fdisk the SECONDARY drive
- Restart the machine and let it go into Windows 95 as usual.
- Format the Secondary Drive WITHOUT the /s switch. This is
important.
- Make a bootable floppy disk while the old drive (master) is
still in the machine with Format a: /s then copy fdisk.exe to the floppy disk you made
bootable.
- Click Start, Run, and type the following. Choose OK to run
it:
xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\(secondary drive letter) /h /e /c /k
- After this is all done, you can then shut down the machine.
- Remove the first drive (master), and make the secondary
drive the master.
- Restart the machine and reconfigure your hard drives. Note
that you may need to use fdisk.exe on your bootable floppy to make the partition active at
this time.
The Windows 95 and Windows NT Preinstallation Wizard and
Kit?
Every legal copy of the Microsoft® OEM Windows® 95,
Windows NT® Workstation 4.0, and Windows NT Server 4.0 operating systems contains the OEM
Preinstallation Wizard and Preinstallation Kit. These tools are located on the product CD.
You can find the tools at:
- Windows 95: \admin
- Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server:
\support\OPK\DSP\
Windows 98 compatability on notebooks
There was some question with regards to Windows 98 running
on the XP notebooks. When we tested it in-house, we were able to do the full install and
have all devices running and working fine. When we contacted the manufacturer, we were
told that the XP does not officially support 98.
On the Premeir series, with 98 installed and an internal
Zip drive, the drive was killing ZIP disks with garbage data. We are still seeking a
solution. Thanks, Brian
The Jamicon mainboard solution
6-15-98
Regarding the KM-533T mainboards (the green
boxes):
The mainboard instructions do not have a
setting listed for 2.2 Vcore (K6-266).
According to their techs, if you want the board to support a Vcore of 2.2 volts, go to
jumper J24 and put jumpers on pins 13 and 7 (settings for 2.1 V and 3.2 V respectively).
Thanks Greg
Before you install the
USB suppliment on Jamicon TX mainboards, make sure you enable the IRQ for USB in the BIOS,
this will help you avoid some annoying "Fatal OE" errors. Thanks Rob.
Y2K - The Year 2000 Compliance
Statement 5-25-98
Notice: ALL CURRENT PRODUCTS ARE VERRIFIED
AS 2000 COMPLIANT! Computers are at risk based on the mainboard clocking and BIOS chip. If
you have a system that needs to be tested for compliance, we recommend free software
programs that are downloadable off of the internet.
Information for specific BIOS chips are available from:
www.award.com
(for Award BIOS)
www.pheonix.com (for Pheonix BIOS)
www.ami.com (for American Megatrends BIOS)
You can find Y2K testing software at www.nstl.com
Thanks Mary.
Pentium II 333 on Biostar Boards
3-30-98
Biostar Pentium II BIOS
updates are here, we put the TLA and TLC updates on the FTP site:ftp://209.26.63.8/support/mainbrd/biostar
. Thanks, Kelly.
The OPTI931 CD Audio solution
3-20-98
We have heard from a few people who have
had problems plugging in the CD audio cable with the OPTI931 Wavetable card. We have run
into the same problems, here are two solutions:
1- With the white CD audio connector, plug it
into the 4 pins next to the socket where you would normally expect to plug it in, and flip
it. If you plug it in where it looks like it should go, your CD audio will play out of the
mic jack.
2- With the black CD audio connector, plug it
in into the connector labeled J4 with the smooth side of the connector facing outward.
Please forward any questions to tech
support. Thanks, James
The Pentium II 333 on a QDI Legend
V 3-11-98
The Legend V will not boot with a PII-333
CPU. You must boot the board with a 233-300 CPU and upgrade the BIOS before the board can
support a 333. The BIOS is available from the FTP site (or click here)
update will do the following:
a. Support Pentium
II 333 MHz
b. Fix Quantum HDD 4.3G detect
problem.
c. Add LogoEasy show logo option.
d. Add 75 MHz, 83 MHz bus clock
support.
After you update the BIOS, you have to go into CMOS and change:
Hard Disk Write Protect to Enabled
Floppy Drive Access to R/W
The TX and LX video problem 3-01-98
The TX mainboard has shown to be
problematic in two areas:
When choosing a video card out of stock for
the TX or LX board, avoid Cirrus Logic 5440M, or the Virge DX chipset video cards. Both of
these have demonstrated an inability to refresh video memory with the TX or LX board. This
results in slow video displays in 95, as well as occasional lockups even in DOS!
The TX, TX pro and the LX chipset
motherboards require a patch for Windows 95 before the IDE controller drivers will set up
propperly. After setting up Win95, you may notice errors in Device Manager on the IDE
controllers. The fix is to install the patch immediately after installing Windows 95
(patches for LX,TX and TXpro available from our download
site).
MO336TV: Com port setup 3-1-98
The Thunderlink 33.6 voice modem (with the
davicom chipset) sets up on a com port as soon as it is powered up. If the com port is set
up incorrectly, and you don't use 95, there is no utility to reset the plug and play com
port.
A quick fix is to power down the system, remove the plug and play jumper, set the BIOS com
ports the way you want them (so that the modem would be the next logical port), power down
again, replace the plug and play jumper, and the modem should set itself up in the right
place.
Of course in Windows 95, use the device
manager to change the basic configuration. It will Plug and Play.
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