techie help desperately needed
Help! I have bought, through eBay, a Gateway Solo, which is probably an antique. The screen works, a few things in setup work; but I was warned before purchasing it that it had no OS and no CD drive. It has an A drive. Theoretically it has a B drive which is now disabled, but I wouldn't know what to do with a B drive anyway. Now that I have unpacked it, I see that it was made to run Windows 95. By some miracle, I still have my Windows 95 software, but, of course, it's on a CD. Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and copy it onto floppies? Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and upload it into my portable drive, and then use the portable drive (which is USB) to download it onto the computer? If neither of these would work, what the hay--ell would work? If I can just get the OS on it, it will do exactly what I want it to do. Please answer directly to me. I REALLY don't want to see an argument get started over how to do it. Thanks. Anne
You can have anyone still using 95 make you a boot floppy, or even get 95 on floppies, I think. . .but not sure. mh On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
Help!
I have bought, through eBay, a Gateway Solo, which is probably an antique. The screen works, a few things in setup work; but I was warned before purchasing it that it had no OS and no CD drive. It has an A drive. Theoretically it has a B drive which is now disabled, but I wouldn't know what to do with a B drive anyway.
Now that I have unpacked it, I see that it was made to run Windows 95.
By some miracle, I still have my Windows 95 software, but, of course, it's on a CD.
Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and copy it onto floppies?
Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and upload it into my portable drive, and then use the portable drive (which is USB) to download it onto the computer?
If neither of these would work, what the hay--ell would work? If I can just get the OS on it, it will do exactly what I want it to do.
Please answer directly to me. I REALLY don't want to see an argument get started over how to do it.
Thanks.
Anne
Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
Help!
I have bought, through eBay, a Gateway Solo, which is probably an antique. The screen works, a few things in setup work; but I was warned before purchasing it that it had no OS and no CD drive. It has an A drive. Theoretically it has a B drive which is now disabled, but I wouldn't know what to do with a B drive anyway.
Now that I have unpacked it, I see that it was made to run Windows 95.
By some miracle, I still have my Windows 95 software, but, of course, it's on a CD.
Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and copy it onto floppies?
Wouldn't fit on one, and you would need to rewrite the install programs to put it on more than one. The CD version was also different from the floppy one (had more stuff on it mostly).
Would it work to put the CD into my CD drive and upload it into my portable drive, and then use the portable drive (which is USB) to download it onto the computer?
Does your new PC have a USB port? I don't think those existed in the 95 days, or were very uncommon. Does your PC allow booting from USB, or even recognize it without the drivers? Does your USB drive come with drivers for 95?
If neither of these would work, what the hay--ell would work? If I can just get the OS on it, it will do exactly what I want it to do.
You'll need to find a copy of the original install floppies if all you have is a floppy drive. And make sure they are an INSTALL set and not an UPGRADE set. You can install only from an install set. If you ever need to re-install anything, you will then need the UPGRADE set. If you were installing Linux, you could pull the drive out and put it into a machine with a CD drive, install the software, then put the drive back. That NEVER worked for me with Windows (of any version). Changing the hardware completely confuses Windows, and it quickly goes downhill from there.
Please answer directly to me. I REALLY don't want to see an argument get started over how to do it.
To test your PC, you may want to try FreeDos http://freedos.org. ... I don't know if you can copy the CD to a partition on the hard drive, and then install from there. You would probably get better answers on a MicroSoft newsgroup.
Thanks.
Anne
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