Added a new Hard-Drive:
Ok, you bought A Hard-Drive--now what:
Copying the OS to the new drive, Help with other problems and other Scenario's--read FDISK, FORMAT, PARTITION, Re-Installing Windows, for more info.
(also making a boot floppy below)
Warning: Going to use your CD, you better have it's
driver on the start-up floppy and the path to it correct--also mscdex.exe at the root on
your floppy. Double check by testing it before you start fdisk or format.
Just Plain adding a second hard-drive for storage:
Connect the ribbon and power plug, set the new drive to slave and Boot your PC, right click my computer, select the new drive and format it---ready.
Wanting a new drive, transfer W-95 and retire the old one:
Back-up anything you want to restore and/or if you screw-up.
Set your old drive to master and your new one to slave, connect the 40pin ribbon cable (with the red line toward the power plug) and plug in the power plug.
Insert your Boot floppy and start/boot your computer, type FDISK and highlight the new drive.
Delete any and all partitions and check (using option 4)--(there might not be any on a new drive).
Then create a primary dos partition and I'm assuming you only want one partition for the entire drive and then ESC out of fdisk and re-boot to floppy.
Type FORMAT d: /s (if D is the drive) and (at this point you can use it as a storing device) or make a extended partition and then all the logical drives you want and format the rest of the partitions without the ( /s ) switch.
But we want W-95, so pull your floppy out to boot to your windows drive and open a 95 dos window and type and ignore any error message.
XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/kWhen it's finished, turn off the PC, change the jumpers so that the new hard drive is the Primary Master drive and the old one is slave.
Boot with your floppy Boot disk. Using FDISK, set the Primary Partition on the new drive Active, Eject the Boot disk and reboot.
If Windows95 does not boot from the hard drive, put the startup disk back in and boot to it and at the A:\ prompt, type:
SYS C:
This will recopy the system files to the new hard drive, reboot and It should boot to Windows95.
DONE.
Installing 2 OS's like W-95 (FAT16) and NT4 (FAT16) on 2 drives and for advanced user's.
(1) Set drive 1 to master and drive 2 to slave if on the same idle port.
(2) Boot to your floppy and type FDISK and make a small partition (5mb's) primary on drive 1.
(3) Make a secondary partition for the rest of the drive space.
(4) FORMAT /s (FAT16) the small partition on drive 1 to make bootable.
(5) FORMAT (FAT32) the secondary partition of drive 1 and install W-95b on drive 1.
(6) Install NT4 on drive 2 and your done. NOTE: NT will install system files on the small partition.
Now when you boot up, it will ask if you want 95b or NT.
You end up with your 5mb boot on drive C, 95b on D and NT on E.
Of course you can use Partition Magic 3 and there boot system or boot manager.
