After Format cant load windows do to copmressed volume error

[Tmat]

I have a Packared Bell P133 w/16MB Ram 1.2GB hard drive qaud CD. I up graded to win98 and added some other programs and it started acting crazy. I figured I would clean my hard drive and reinstall win95. I boot with a flopy it reads my cdrom an at the a:\ I type fdisk and go through the setps. I exit and rebot type at a:\ Format /s it goes through that process and then I go to D:\Win95\setup and it tells me setup found a compressed volume or a disk cache utility on your computer. Quit setup check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove the disk cache utility then run set up again. I dont know what its refering to. Can any one help

 

[edfair]

It thinks you have drvspace or dblspace enabled on the drive. Try your fdisk again, delete all partitions until fdisk shows no partitions, then create the partitions again. Then format with the /u /s switches.

 

[Hunter11]

I have to agree with Ed's comment about the Drivespace3 or Dblspace being used on the drive. Volume compression would only come from one of those types of programs.

Was the 1.2Gb showing a high capacity or was it and has always been a 1.2Gb. I have compressed an 850Mb to 1.2Gb.

The other possiblity is that when you upgraded to Win98. Did you allow the drive to be reformated to FAT32. This can sometime give the appearance of a compressed drive or volume. Which in turn will not allow Win95A and 95B OSR 2.1 to load as they do not support FAT32.

I also agree with Ed about FDisking and removing all partitions and making one standard partition using the /u and /s switches. After that you "should not" have a problem reinstalling Win95.

 

[Tmat]

I believe its a 1.2GB thats what the documentation said. You are right with guessing that I compressed my hard drive when upgrading to win98. I did try to reformat using what Ed said but it kept telling me parameter missing or somthing like that. So I formated /v /s and it took and I used the upgrd 98cd and then it asked me for my master cd and it loaded 95 then loaded 98 which I really didnt want because its slower with 98. It seems tobe booting up but I havent checked to see if I have a modem and stuff. I will do that to night. I checked the readme.txt and it said that I needed to do a sys c: what is that?
What is a format /u /s what does the u do
Thanks for the help
Tmat

 

[edfair]

When you did fdisk, you could have looked at the existing partition. If the partition type was fat32, or non-dos, then 95/95a/ wouldn't load onto the hard drive because they don't support fat32. Don't remember exactly what they show without one in front of me.
The 98/98se will load to fat32 drives.
To use the drive with 95/95a then you would need to delete all existing partitions, then create a fat16 partition. Which would be the one that the 95/95a boot disk would load.
Format has switches. /s puts the system files on the drive that is being formatted. This includes about 6 files, most of which are hidden from you. The /u switch is to do an unconditional format and rewrite the addresses. If you used a /v switch, then the error message was invalid parameter. No such.
The requirement to run sys c: is because the format didn't do what it was supposed to and your hard drive doesn't have the 6 files installed. Boot from the floppy and do a "sys c:" and the program "sys" will install the 6 files on the "c:" drive. But I would suggest that you would be better doing it all over again from the top and get your partition right so you can use 95.

 

[Tmat]

Ed when I fdisk the c drive When it asked me if I wanted to format 2gig or better I said no and then I deleted all the partions working my way up to the primary once done deleting I then added only one partion. At that time it said to exit and reboot for it to take, I assume because there is only one partion it made it active. Any way I go back and look at fdisk and it says fat16. But when I go to put win95 on it still tells me that same error. Is that because I upgraded to 98 and compressed my drive. Doesn,t fdisk fix that or reformating?
Thanks again.
Tmat

 

[edfair]

You are succeeding in fdisking the drive with a W98 fdisk. The fact that it asks you if you want large drive support indicates that it will create a FAT32 if you want it , or it will create a W98 version of FAT16. You need to fdisk with a W95/ W95a, or a DOS 6.0 or greater version of boot disk that will only install FAT16.
When you get a earlier version of fdisk, I think you will find that it indicates a non DOS partition was created. Haven't got a system right now that I can look at to verify this, and my memory doesn't hold all the little details any more. I recognize them when they are in front of me.

 

[compumedic]

Hi, after upgrading your system to win98 then decided to clean it and reinstall win95. When you reboot what type of bootdisk are you using and are you re-installing WIN95, WIN '95 OEM or WIN'95 OEM-Upgrade?
If you'rer re-installing WIN95 with about 36 MB capacity it will read Win95\setup and it tells me setup found a compressed volume or a disk cache utility on your computer. This means your using a wrong version of bootdisk. Try installing the win95 97 version and it won't have the reading shown when your installing the original win95.
Use bootdisk from win95 orig to install a older version of windows 95, and you can use win98 start-up disk when you install win95 (97 version) upto win98se

 

[Tmat]

Thanks for the response it seems as if I have the wrong bootdisk still. I went back to the web page I got the 95 boot disk from and its for 95 or 98. I will have to locate one for win95. The only one I made was from after upgrading to win98. I should also find out what version of win95 I have on the masterCd. I will take your advice.
Thanks again for all the help. It has made this frustrating experience a learning one.
Tmat