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To: H Peterson who wrote (4531)	7/17/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

hey hp, thanks for getting back to us! first let me ask after your mom... i sure hope she is doing better. next let me tell you that it was exciting to read along with what amounted to a play-by-play description of your process. it is neat for all of us to journey through all the phases starting with your questions and then the answers and suggestions provided on this thread , right on through to you sitting down and deciding to go for it. it was like being there with you, hp. <g3> then of all things, along comes a power failure! amazing. i'm real, real glad things worked as well as they did. you went about the whole thing in a very intelligent manner, imo. and when a person lays that kind of groundwork, it's easy to "get lucky". <g3> your b-i-l is fortunate to have you there for him. was he at your side learning along with you? now i have you here to hold my hand when the day comes that i have to reformat my hd and reinstall an OS! take good care of your mom, hp. tell her we were asking after. :) mark

To: H Peterson who wrote (4531)	7/18/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

HP Congrats on the install. You make it sound so easy <g>. Of course it was much harder for me the first time (not to rain on your parade) 'cause I had to hack my way through the jungle of getting a bootable floppy. (ended up going back to the store where I purchased the computer). The startup disk that win95 makes for you neither boots the computer nor has the cd drivers. Now why is this? Why didn't MS put the cd drivers on the startup disk? And why doesn't their startup disk creating utility sys the disk for you? I still believe it was a conspiracy, especially in light of how un-forthcoming the shops were with their knowledge. (Or was I just too dense to understand what they were telling me?) Seems it was all done so you would have to go to them for help. The win98 startup disk that comes with the OS has all this. Instead of creating a win95 startup disk just make a copy of your win98 disk and sys it. Microsoft probably decided to be more friendly now that there is some competition on the scene. Please forgive my paranoid ramblings. Maybe Richard can shed some light on this when/if he comes back as he is on the retail/repair end of things. My guess is you have an ancient version of w95 which is very much smaller than the newer ones and especially w98. It installs a lot quicker. Next time maybe you'll be able to try out fdisk to make extra partitions. It's a nice added dimension to your total system setup and allows for easy backup (although you may still want to save some stuff off-disk). I keep all my software installation files (OS, apps and drivers) on disk for quick access. Hardly ever have to reach for a cd or floppy. This is especially handy for Windows files. Windows remembers the source directory when you install it, so if you use these on-disk files when you install Windows it never asks you for the cd -- it just goes and gets them. You can also change where Windows thinks these files are by editing the registry. The path is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup Click on the "Setup" folder and then in the right frame look for SourcePath. It will have the path for your CD ROM if that's where you installed Windows from. Just change this to the directory where you put your Windows Installation files. When transfering the Windows installation files to your disk you don't need to copy the entire CD, which is quite large. For win98 I just copied the win98 folder, leaving out the subfolders Ols, Tour and Channels. The resulting folder comes to 128MB. My best wishes to you and your Mother, wily