First post, by britain4
Got an old laptop I picked up ages ago, never tested it until today when I found a suitable power adapter- fired right up! Into some dodgy half functional copy of Linux and not the Windows 95 it was designed for.
So I quick formatted the drive using a W98 boot disk and the next time I tried to boot, it came up with a GRUB error - so I quick formatted again and successfully installed Windows 95 on it, which was fine up until the point that the system rebooted and it wouldn’t boot, just a black screen, blinking cursor and constant hard drive reading.
Did a non-quick format and same result. I’m sure this is some ugly remnant of the old Linux install causing issues and not the hard drive failing but I don’t know how to get rid of it. It isn’t the laptop either as the same thing happens whichever machine I put the hard drive in (after making it bootable)
Anyone got any ideas how I can get this drive up and running again?
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