If I was installing win95, it would not be _hours_ of grief I would worry about. 

Gah! Bloody Win95 won't install at all!

For some reason, it keeps claiming that there's a "compressed disk" on my nice, clean, newly formatted (and now reformatted) hard disk. If I ignore that, the setup crashes with "can't copy files" or some similar rot.

I've tried fdisk and reformatting, but same joy... and a hidden file called "drvspace.bin" which refuses to be deleted, or accessed in any way at all.

I'm in a jam here; I guess I'll just have to take the goddamn box to someone and see what they can do with it. Sigh... 

perhaps the drive is formatted as FAT32 and not FAT16? Or perhaps the drive is too big.. I think WIN98 allowed much bigger capacity than 95... 

First, see if you have a friend with win98 he can 'give' to you. If that fails, see if you can get a friend to burn you a Knoppix cd ( http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html ). That and some minimal unix skills can solve just about anything you can do to a computer. 

The BIOS autodetect reads the correct numbers of tracks, sectors etc, but claims this 20GB Maxtor is only 8GB.

My suspicions: I'll have to hang fire and pick up a complete new BIOS/motherboard/box when I can afford 'em (which won't be for several months.)

Your thoughts? 

Are the jumpers on the back of the HD set correctly. There is an option to set them so as you only use "x" amount of the HD, is on mine anyways, I guess they are all similar. 

If you can, try setting the "access mode" of the appropriate IDE adapter to LBA. If there is an update available, and the motherboard can handle it, try reflashing the BIOS. 

Even if the jumpers were set that way, that shouldn't have anything to do with your other problems though 

Are you from Australia?
Do you have an ATX case? 

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No, New Zealand.

And nope, this ain't an ATX case.

(The corpse's brand name is Digital 3000. 'Twas being used as a backup machine.)

Anyway, I've been twiddling with fdisk and whatnot, but I'm beginning to suspect that I'll need to pick up a complete new chassis a few months down the track anyway. (And go shopping for a copy of Win98 too...) 

might be filesystem
you need fat32, or chop the drive into several fat16 partitions (use partition magic, or some other tool that can manage partitions better than featureless fdisk)

u need win 95 osr2 or 98(slower) to use fat32 drive

dont know about the bios, but even my soket7 mobo from year 97 (or even 96) supported >8gb hdds 

and please stop spamming the board with generic threads

what next 'best food' trio ?
best console games (yeah trio too, for each console) 

You need one for every console eva!!!!11!1

Best Games
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Atari: Solar Fox
Intellivision: Utopia
Colecovision: Donkey Kong
NES: SMB3
Genesis: Sonic and Knuckles
SNES: SMK
PS: Castlevania: SOTN
N64: Goldeneye 64
PS2: GTA3
GameCube: Zelda Windwaker

Best kitchen appliance: fridge
Best room in my house: the one with the computer
Best cardinal direction: North
Best mammal: marmot
Best best of award: best mammal 

what gave you got against South? 

gave = have [edit button!]. 

Piss off you moaning wanker. Sometimes you can be so stupid I'm amazed you can walk upright let alone type such gibberish on a keyboard.

Number of people happily using new threads: 12-15

Number of people complaining: 1. You. Idiot. 

I have something you may be interested in, would have been easier if you were in AUS, but.
Have a look, see what you think. Let me know, ASAP, you'll be happy with the deal. Oh, I can slip you Win98 to if you like. Let me know SOON.
You will need ATX case

Intel 815i based MotherBoard
PIII 866 Mhz
384Mb PC100 Ram
64MB Geforce 2 GTS 

And power supply for the above included 

shambler is so polite man, good to see him cleaning the way with his bloody and rusted axe... 

And the ram is pc133, 133mhz not 100mhz 

I thought about complaining but didn't.

Also, I think it's worth complaining just to read your replies. 

Vectrex: Minesweeper/Rockaroids Remix/Patriots (tie), although Vectris in direct sunlight is unique.
32X: Virtua Fighter
Sega CD: Stellar Fire/Eternal Champions CD (tie)
Virtual Boy: Red Alarm. No second.
Jaguar: Iron Soldier
Jaguar CD: Battlemorph

I'll have to disagree on N64. That would be Pilotwings 64. Relaxing! 

I never really post here any more, and I doubt any answer of any worth will come out of this following question... but what do I have to loose? Where might someone find information on the steps nessacary on creating a mod or whatever? I'm trying to find interviews, advice columns, articles anything on creating a mod and any tips people have developed might have. I would appreciate even a half surious response. Thanks.