Partition removal (long)

[Bleep]

To long a story to tell all but to solve a problem I got a new HD 6.4 WD could not get 95 osr2 to work so I formatted it with WD format tool and ended up with 4 partitions. I installed DOS 5 and win 3.1 then upgraded to win95. How can I remove these partitions and just make the drive 1 big partition. The reason that it made 4 partitions is when I FDISK and FORMAT it asked for the operating sys startup disk and as it was DOS it made all the partitions.
Bleep

[bdog]

make a startup disk in win 95 osr2, then boot up, run fdisk and get your partitions how you want them, then reboot, format and install 95 directly, if it is an upgrade it will just ask you to put in your 3.1 disk to verify that you have it. You don't actually have to install 3.1. Unless you get some third party software such as partitionmagic, there is no other way to chop those 4 partitions down into one without a fresh install.

[Bleep]

Thanks BDOG
But that is a problem I have been unable to solve. I have not been able to figure out how to make a startup or bootdisk of osr 2 without having it installed in the machine. Is there someway of getting it off the CD? The install floppy that comes with osr 2 that I have will not work. All the bootdisk programs I have found at different sites require that system files be put on the boot floppy.
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[This message has been edited by Bleep (edited 09-29-99).]

[MDHerman]

Bleep:

If not too much trouble, plug old HD back in, make new Win95 boot disk. Assuming you didn't dump the data that was on it.

MDH

[Bleep]

Well the old HD has win 95 upgrade on it and the boot disk made from that will not work with osr 2. I think it is because of the DOS.
I tried that with a boot disk I downloaded from Compucheap (Russ). And the boot disk made that way would not work. I have tried a lot of things that do not work.
Bleep

[bdog]

You need to get someone that is running osr2 to make you a boot disk. I would make you one ,but I am running 98. The disks are pretty much universal. I have used a 98 startup disk I made on my machine for around 15 computers with no problem. As far as extracting one from the cd, I don't know how.

[philipg]

First a quick question? If you type VER and the dos prompt does the response say something about "win95 version 4.xxx.xxx"?


If I understand you correctly you can't make a boot disk from the control panel of 95.

Should be able too.

As far as the boot files copy your config.sys and autoexec.bat from the hard drive.

---REM--- the lines that have nothing to do with the CDROM in both files.

Copy all othe programs that you may need like
fdisk, format,etc. from c:\windows\command folder not c:\dos. You may need the emm386.exe and himem.sys programs for memory management. Modify the lines in your startup files to read these files from the a:\drive.

Good luck...

[Bleep]

Well thanks for all the advice guys. I live in a very small village in central NE and not many computers here. I have tried a boot disk made from 95 upgrade and it will not work to start the install on 95 OSR-2. If Microsoft would make a decent boot disk for OSR-2 I would not have this prob. I will keep plugging away and maybe I will get it figured out. Got a bunch of other prob's also so got plenty to ponder upon.
Thanks guys
Bleep

[Rookie]

Did you try bootdisk.com ? read the readme carefully, also make sure your downloading win95B...you can tell 95b from 95a cause of the date created listing: 95b says 11:11am
95a says 9:30am or something.
Bootdisk.com instructions say for best results clean boot with a floppy and cd to the folder in a pure dos environment. Just follow the directions- it says to type *make disk* and will prompt you to put in a fresh floppy...you can make a 95b bootdisk even if you downloaded and ran the make disk prog in a 95a box. (just make sure you dont do a *sys c:* or do anything to the 95a system files...just make the 95b disk and take it out)
Hope that helped

[j_k]

I guess this is already fixed, just a thought though, the bootdisk.com utility asks for a disc - I just gave it a formatted disc. Runs like a train 'Bannna' LOL love it /forum/smile.gif
Re 95b there is no way to make a boot disk from the cd but you can format/s right off the CD ROM. In the directory win95 its right there FORMAT.COM /forum/smile.gif
Phew - assuming you've fdisked and chosen the
FAT option it should work. Love to hear what happened.

[Bleep]

Well very interesting. Really good stuff. The bootdisk site is really great and appriciate you pointing me to it. Just downloaded both the 95A and the 95B bootdisk prog's and will try them the first thing in the morning. I will keep you posted on how it goes.
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