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Are you booting up from the &quot;Boot Disk&quot; of Window 95? &nbsp;Is there already an operating system on your hard drive? &nbsp;If so, what is it?<br />

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Are you booting up from the "Boot Disk" of Window 95?  Is there already an operating system on your hard drive?  If so, what is it?


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try setup /is. &nbsp;this skips the scandisk see if it will let you install that way. &nbsp;if so then there is most likely a bad sector or something wrong with the hard drive.<br />
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bill<br />

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try setup /is.  this skips the scandisk see if it will let you install that way.  if so then there is most likely a bad sector or something wrong with the hard drive.


bill


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I only have DOS installed on the PC.<br />
None of the above solutions have worked.<br />

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I only have DOS installed on the PC.
None of the above solutions have worked.


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Does that include the one you accepted??<br />

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Does that include the one you accepted??


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Try this:<br />
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Since you only have DOS on the system, wipe the drive and reboot using the Win95 Setup Boot Disk. &nbsp;This should automatically start the installation procedure.<br />

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Try this:

Since you only have DOS on the system, wipe the drive and reboot using the Win95 Setup Boot Disk.  This should automatically start the installation procedure.


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I am trying to install Win95 from floppy disk. When I insert the disk, it goes through the scandisk procedure, and the it gives me the message<br />
'Standard Mode: invalid DPMI return from 0387:0906'<br />
My hard drive is a 1.3GB. What does this message mean?
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I am trying to install Win95 from floppy disk. When I insert the disk, it goes through the scandisk procedure, and the it gives me the message
'Standard Mode: invalid DPMI return from 0387:0906'
My hard drive is a 1.3GB. What does this message mean?

Cannot setup Win95a from floppy

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