I have formatted the c drive and now I am reloading win95 but I have come across and error:- when try to use setup.exe. “Message: Setup found a compressed volume or a disk-cache utility on your computer. Check your disk compression software or remove the disk-cache utility and then run setup again.” I’ve look up this message and it tells me to use dbldrive.exe but I can not find it on any of my boot disks. Do u know where I can get this file?

What kind of computer do you have?

Did you ever run a disk compression program on this drive?


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Its an old Pentium-S - (not mine thank god)I dont know if disk compression was ever done as it was bought cheap!

Dear Emma:

The best way to handle this problem is:

1) Download the formatting/diagnostic software from the manufacturer of the hard drive.
2) Create a boot disk with CD rom support.

3) Format the hard drive with software from the manufacturer.

4) Create an empty WIN 95 folder on the hard disk

5) Copy the contents of the WIN95 folder from the CD to the win 95 folder on the hard disk.

6) Run setup.exe from the WIN95 folder on the hard disk.

You didn't mention why you were reformatting. Is this a new drive? What size? It may be too large for the bios in which may be causing the problems you experienced. The software from the hard drive manufacturer will help with this or you can flash the bios (yuk).

emma
I was once asked by a friend to re-install W95 on a computer with compressed drive and ran into probs. (computer was used by his young son for games) The "Compressed section" is really just a big folder on the hard drive, so if the drive has been previously compressed you have to get rid of the "compressed folder".
(Please excuse my wording - The experts will jump in and give correct wording)
Instructions I recieved here was to FDISK the drive and then make new primary partition. After this just do clean install as normal This worked for me and the computer is still running sweetly (even with a 4 year old thumping on it)

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Ernie

Thank you all for your help, I have tried your suggestions but I have now found that my hd was not connected to the grey cable all along. I have now connected it but found that I get the message 'missing operating system'! every time I boot and cannot get to the dos prompt. The only thing I can get to the BIOS settings. I have tried using a boot disk but it does not do anything. The only way I can get to the dos prompt is by unplugging the grey cable connecting the hd. Any suggestions?

Emma
First check the Jumpers on the hard drive.
One as master and the second as slave IF you have two drives connected to the primary ide controller / cable

After you have the jumpers set correctly ( 1 master 1 as slave)
then power up the system and enter the bios setup.
Set the hard drive to auto detect.
Check for a boot order setting.
Set it to a: / c: / cd-rom
This will force the system to look for the floppy first then the hdd then the cd. It will allow you to boot with the floppy for the fdisk and format .
Then Remove the floppy and reboot the system with your windows cd in the cd-rom and boot from there for the install of windows

Thanks guys for replying so quickly - got access to my A drive now! - I've have ran Fdisk and reformatted but when loading setup I get the message about the Drive - it might be compressed. I have tried 'classicsoftware' instructions about downloading the manufactures software - the dm.exe runs ok until the prompt screen comes up and my monitor goes all funny (like it needs to be tuned in or something?) I have played around with monitor but can not read the screen prompts. As you probably can tell I am not experienced in this field so if anyone knows how to fix it or another way of getting rid of my compressed bits I would be very grateful for your comments.

Dear Emma:

First, check the jumpers on the back of the drive. Go to the manufacturer web site and search for jumpers and print the diagram.

If you can boot to the a:> prompt, that is a good sign.

Now I have a question for you, does the bios recognize the hard drive?

Also, please post the specs of your system:
Processor RAM HD model number monitor
I am pretty sure there are command line switches that will allow you to boot the disk manager software on this computer

It an old system Pentium-S 75mhz - Hard drive: Samsung SHD-30560A 560mb - Monitor: S3 Virge (i think- no name on monitor).
The hard drive is detected as master & cd rom as slave and I already checked the jumbers and they are ok!

hi emma

Hope this helps.

1. When u run FDISK ,did u try deleting all the partition, ie deleting extended dos partition, primary partition to a state whereby ur HDD is "partitionless". If no u can try doing so. Type FDisk and u will see a menu. Press 3 for deleting partitions. To play safe start from the last option all the way up to the 1st as i do not know how ur partition is like.
After which you can try to create new primary partition which is option 1 in FDisk main menu.

After u tried this BY RIGHT it should work as u would have wiped out all partition info and created a state whereby ur HDD is "new" with no info at all. What it needs is a FORMAT.

BTW out of curiousity which WIN95 version u using?? Correct me if i'm wrong, but Win95 startup disk DO NOT come with CDRom support.

I've done what u suggested deleted all partitions and created a new one and formatted - tried setup again but once I click on agree it hangs - I've waited for 5mins and nothing happened so I rebooted and tried again but the same happened.

I am using a Windows me boot disk as it does have cd rom support - the windows 95 does not work! I am doing it right?

Hi Emma.

I suspect that win ME has formatted your disk using FAT32. Win95 uses fat 16, and cannot read FAT32. Do you have a win98 boot disk? Or download a boot image from BOOTDISK.COM. Then reformat without using "large disk support" That should give you a partition that win95 can read


David

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hmmm... sounds pretty logical.. worth a try.

Not sure will this help but make copies of both win98 and win95. Use win 95 command.com copy over win98's disk. Not sure will this help coz i heard someone talking abt it before.

Unless u got MS-DOS 6.22 and the cdrom driver if not u can modify ur autoexec.bat and config.sys.