I booted back to the floppy, ran fdisk, and had to set partition 1 to be the Active partition. The computer in question doesnt have too much of a history that I can describe my uncle used it to aid in obtaining his masters degree, and my family got his Osborne 486 that I have not been able to find. Windows - 367.95 Crocslak Communicator 1.0 54.95 ClOSSl801 lor Windows r 126.95. I have tried all around my state for Packard Bell Computers, Master CD, Restore Diskettes, and Documentation. After my first install, the hard drive did not boot. One of these is a Master CD (TM) that came with a Packard Bell Legend 994CDT my uncle got in early 1996 or so (manufactured in late 1995). CD ROM PACKAGES External or lnlemcll Includes Software Toolworks CD-ROM. Vintage Packard Bell Items hope: - posted in Windows 95/98/ME.To workaround this, I copied the generic OAKCDROM.SYS driver to the floppy and edited the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to use this driver. However, our original CD-ROM drive isn’t working and I’ve replaced it with a newer generic IDE ATAPI CD-ROM drive which isn’t recognized by the boot floppy. The boot floppy has CD-ROM detection and drivers for various CD-ROM drives that PB used.I bet a good programmer could take a look at the master cd and actually create the. Sadly I need some help finding the start-up floppy disk which you boot from to install windows 95 from the Master CD. The boot floppy image is osboot.img in the root folder of the CDROM One of my first PCs was a Packard Bell 9029 from xmas 1997 and I still have it. Would be cool if anyone could upload an iso of it on megaupload for example. This generation of PC doesn’t support booting from CDROM, so a boot floppy is needed. Im searching for a Packard Bell Legend Master CD from around 1995.

My first attempt is with the “170889 – Win95 (Jan 1997 – Platinum Pro) – VM.ISO” disc, which I’ve kept a local copy of online here: This is related to our: Packard Bell Platinum 2220Īfter installing a new 4GB CF card as HD replacement in the Packard Bell Platinum 2220, I’m attempting to restore the original Windows 95 OS with Packard Bell extras from the Master CDĪ has a great collection of original Packard Bell install discs, the Windows 95 group is here:

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