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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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