First post, by bushnrvn
I have been into retrocomputing/restorations for a few years now. I started out with gaming consoles but I branched out into other 8-bit machines -65xx family etc. - and I started pursuing vintage macs pretty hard. The interesting part is that I grew up in a Windows household. My very first computer was a 3.1 machine. We went through 95, 98, skipped Me and 2000 and went straight for XP. The last time I installed windows 95 was probably 15 years ago at least...
Earlier this week I was given a Am486dx4 120mhz system. I want to get Windows 95 started on this thing but I am having some trouble. I think the root cause may just be my wishful thinking.
The machine did not come with a HDD. The previous owner wanted to keep the drive. This left me with few options. The smallest extra IDE drive I have is a 20gb Seagate. I tried formatting it FAT32 but the BIOS doesn't seem to recognize it. I know the drive works. I plugged it into my Windows 7 machine and it ran fine. I've tried various formatting options and I just can't seem to figure out what I am missing.
Additionally, the CD-ROM is a Sound Blaster drive connected to an add on card. Windows 95 OSR 2.5 doesn't seem to know what to do with this - could be that my BIOS settings need adjustment. MS-DOS 6.22 doesn't seem to recognize the HDD or the CDROM either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.