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Skriven 2016-08-29 13:34:00 av Ed Vance (14843.windowsa)
   Kommentar till text 3168 av Ben Ritchey (1:393/68)
Ärende: Re: W95 Notebook Update
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08-26-16 07:59 Ben Ritchey wrote to Ed Vance about Re: W95 Notebook Update
Howdy! Ben,

 BR> * An ongoing debate between Ed Vance and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 EV> I don't know if the BIOS has software to drive the LCD Display when
 EV> the pc is turned On? I'm guessing that may be the HDD has to have the
 EV> W95 Video Drivers on it to show the BIOS Setting on the Display when I
 EV> turn the notebook On?????

 BR> Yes, it does. No drivers needed ...

O.K., Thanks.
So I may have to take the W95 notebook apart a Fourth time to figure out
why I'm seeing those Vertical Lines in the display.

The Second time I opened it up, after I put it back together I noticed
that the two levers to Eject PC Cards out of the PC Card slot didn't
stick out, i.e. they were in the folded position inside the case.

So I had to open the computer up a Third time to get those levers
positioned where they would be sticking out when a PC Card was inserted
in one of the slots, so I could Eject the PC Card by pressing on the
lever for the slot the Card was in.    DUH.

 EV> As mentioned, I may have broken a wire in one of the Flat Cables
-snip-
 BR> They are pretty tough actually :) but can come loose ...

Thanks.

 EV> If my efforts fail and I can't get the files needed on Your HDD, I
 EV> might send the HDD back to You with the Acer Recovery CD and Windows
 EV> 95 CD that came with the notebook to see if You have any success.

 BR> That won't work unless I have the laptop itself :(  What I CAN do is
 BR> clone the old HD onto the new HD for you if that would help ... I use
 BR> Clonezilla :)

I've heard of Clonezilla but never used it, so after seeing You mention it
I downloaded a copy of it and will try using Clonezilla to see if it can
SEE the old Win95 HDD and I can Clone it to the new HDD.
I'll try using it on the Vista notebook that has a Intel Celeron 550 CPU.
Thanks for the idea.

I have two USB adapters that I use with IDE HDD's, and the other day I used
both of them on the Vista notebook with the two IDE HDD's.

Yours shows up perfectly in Windows Explorer (WE) when it is connected.
My old one isn't shown in WE's list until I wait, and wait and wait.....

While I'm waiting it chatters occasionally and finally is shown in WE's
listing as a Local Drive but the size of the drive doesn't appear.

I've tried Logging On to a Admin Account in Vista and WE shows the same as
the Standard Account does, your HDD shows up fine in the listing,
my old HDD finally gets a Drive Letter but doesn't show anything else.

I wanted to Hibernate the Vista box one night with both of those HDD's
connected and it wouldn't Hibernate.
So I tried the Shut Down option but it wouldn't Shut Down either.

I had to do a Hard Shut Down by holding the Power Button in until it turned
itself Off.
It does that in either the Standard or Admin account.  PC=1   ED=0

 EV> Another Thought, I've made ISO's of both of the CD's.
 EV> The Recovery CD is 400MB, the Windows 95 CD is 625MB.
-snip-
 BR> Too big lol

 EV> I heard about the Flooding in Louisiana, hope You and Yours aren't
 EV> affected by it.

 BR> My sister had water up to her knees inside her house :( but I am on
 BR> high ground

 BR> so I escaped the flood :)

Knee High Water makes a big mess, sorry to hear that Your Sister's home
got flooded.


 EV> Also if You don't have the time to play with my w95 project I will

 BR> I have the time, if the old HD is viable enough to clone I can help you
 BR> :) I have both Win95 and Win98 CDs but without the laptop I dunno ... I
 BR> do have a utility that will pre-install a Windows CD/DVD onto a USB
 BR> drive if that works I

I tried the wintousb URL last night but wasn't able to get the page to behave.
I will try again later today.

 BR> could try it but it's designed for newer Wins so that's just a maybe

Vista is the newest Win I own, I used the XP machine to try accessing their
website last night, I'll try using the Vista box to see if I can get their
page(s) to load.

 BR> {chuckle} personally when I get an older laptop like yours I just
 BR> salvage the usable parts and file-13 the rest! You're a brave soul
 BR> tinkering with same lol

It is an old notebook and I thought that maybe I could resurrect it.

The program that came with the Win95 box that I really liked using,
is called Sidekick and was made by Starfish Software.

I did a search for sidekick a year or two ago but the Results List didn't
show the same program that was made to run with my Acer W95 notebook.

iirc, the Sidekick program said it only ran on Win95 or maybe some other
O/S that was released close to the date Win95 was offered by MS.

I'll try another Search to see if Sidekick is useable on an XP or Vista
pc.

I really liked the World Time option the Sidekick program that the Acer pc
came with.
It had a Map of the World and shown the Time and Date for 6(?) places
that I selected.


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