Re: Undo partition damage

Posted on 2020-08-02, 23:11

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by JonnyGators

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Are those just tools for retrieving data, or can they repair partition problems? I found the partition is viewable as a FAT32 partition when viewing it from an XP drive, but when trying to boot from my boot disk to repair it and make it bootable, it still shows up as a FAT16 partition with no data. …

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Re: Undo partition damage

Posted on 2020-08-02, 21:36

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by JonnyGators

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Further update....I do have an XP partition on the machine, and I booted to that, and it does still recognize the drive, and show all the data on it from there. However, from there, it shows it as a FAT32 now, so it seems GParted took it upon itself to convert my partition from FAT32 to FAT16. But, …

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Undo partition damage

Posted on 2020-08-02, 21:22

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by JonnyGators

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I've been trying to do this weekly stream of updating through Windows from 1 to 10 on a Pentium 4, and I've run into a snag. I reached Windows ME. This week, between streams I was doing some work. And I was concerned I wouldn't have enough room on the 2GB FAT16 partition to upgrade to XP. GParted …

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Re: How to install Windows 98SE on a modern PC

Posted on 2020-08-01, 21:09

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by JonnyGators

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This process doesn't work....

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 21:30

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by JonnyGators

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Those drivers are in the same pack though, I did see them there, and at some point tried them. The drivers themselves apply, the issue seems to be the software. It calls on something in that user32.dll that isn't there. So I get that error when windows boots up, and if I try to change from 16 color …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 21:09

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by JonnyGators

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Figured that out....rename the file that's bitching.

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 21:06

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by JonnyGators

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Ah well, I gave it a good fight. Now, it would be nice if I had a way to uninstall this ATI garbage that I can't seem to disable so I can make the boot error go away.

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 20:49

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by JonnyGators

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Ok, so browsing to the folder with the dl_ files works when 95 wants the files, I guess it automatically extracts what it needs. But, what is really frustrating is it seems now most of the time I can't get the "have disk" option to show up when applying drivers, so I'm at the mercy of the lists, and …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 20:24

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by JonnyGators

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4.1 cleared the startup error. Now Windows 95 wants ati2cqag.dll off of the ATI Installation CD. The path that the 4.1 installer extracted includes an ati2cqag.dl_. Now I need to figure out how to trick the ATI software, that still doesn't think I have their hardware despite Windows 95 recognizing …

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ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 18:59

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by JonnyGators

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As I do my youtube series of going through Windows upgrades from 1 to 10 on a Pentium 4, I've reached 95. Now, I could just move along to 98 where I know I have a working driver for this card, but I do want to try and push things as far as I can with each version of Windows, and I feel like I'm …

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Re: Can't find a driver for a Creative Sound Blaster Vibra 16C

Posted on 2020-07-24, 03:53

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by JonnyGators

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It's a CT4180

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Can't find a driver for a Creative Sound Blaster Vibra 16C

Posted on 2020-07-24, 03:09

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by JonnyGators

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I finally managed to get some parts from various piles of crap together into a working 486 machine. I have a Sound Blaster Vibra 16C sound card I threw in, figuring I should be able to grab some drivers from a quick google search.....but lo and behold, I cannot for the life of me find a darn DOS or …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-16, 14:01

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by JonnyGators

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Getting 3.1 to install properly on this machine (and also getting a 95 upgrade install to take) has inspired me to start a series of youtube streaming related to this. I've realized that, now that I've managed to get my Pentium 4 to accept a Windows 3.1 install, and upgrade to 95, that I may have a …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-14, 17:14

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by JonnyGators

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Cool. I managed to fix the 95 issue, needed to run that one setup /p i (in addition to the high processor fix on the reboot) to get that to take. I managed to do it as a 3.1 to 95 upgrade. I might roll it back and play more around with the drivers at another time. I'm just playing around. At this …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:47

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by JonnyGators

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I can play solitare without sound, but that's about as much as I expect to do with 3.1 on this machine, as I doubt I can find 3.1 drivers for the video card and sound card in this machine. Well, you could try using the PC-Speaker driver.. Or the built-in Sound Blaster 1.x drivers, provided, that …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-14, 14:35

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by JonnyGators

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Oh, I"m not planning on using it. Or using it very seriously. Just more of an exercise in going through the install process, seeing if it could be done, and then when I ran into a problem it made me more curious. I can play solitare without sound, but that's about as much as I expect to do with 3.1 …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-14, 02:52

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by JonnyGators

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jakethompson1 wrote on 2020-07-13, 23:29: I wonder if it probing for your hardware is causing a problem. Try setup /i https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/083/Q83194/ Yes, that did the trick. Thanks.

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-13, 23:20

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by JonnyGators

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And yes, I'm the same JonnyGators from other forums, and my account here is new, so while I can receive PMs, I can't reply to them. I've kinda given up on the 486 build project for now, and am rethinking what to do with the parts I have for that project.

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-13, 23:17

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by JonnyGators

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Stock MS-DOS 6.22 installation. Nothing else done to it, just a straight install, then running the Windows 3.1 disk. I tried removing smartdrv from the autoexec.bat . No change. I tried doing a custom install instead of express. It has no problem with the screen to set the installation folder. Then …

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Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-13, 21:35

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by JonnyGators

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I've been tinkering around with different hardware, trying to do things for various reasons. Or for no reason. I have a Pentium 4 machine that I tinker around with a lot, that is mostly used as a 98/XP dual boot machine. I had a spare HD module kicking around, and installed DOS 6.22 onto it with no …

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