Installing an upgrade version to a wiped hardisk

[stev-rey]

My boss has an old computer with 95 upgrade installed that has gone corrupted after a bad shutdown and he had scandisk fix the files, over half of the drive was filled with .chk files and windows would not start.

I took a ride over with a boot disk with cd rom support made from my 98 machine to boot up and get cd rom going.
The first thing I did was delete.* chk to get rid of those chk files, they took up much of the drive anyway.
At the D: prompt I typed setup and installed windows over the original directory, when a file being copied is older than the source prompts came up, I chose to keep the existing files.
I left his house after the 1st reboot thinking he could finish on his own, but instead he told me the next morning Windows could not start because of a file. (he did'nt not the name of the file.) So I assumed that file was one of the newer existing files setup did not overwrite, so I gave him instructions to install 95 again, only this time to choose "no" when asked to keep existing files.
This morning he told me there was no change.

Now I'm beginning to think there could be a file that is outside of Windows that is preventing Windows to operate. I'm beginning to think I should format.
But can windows 95 upgrade be installed on a formatted disk the same way a 98 upgrade can?

[PCSolutions]

Dont format just yet
If you have to format, you can install the upgrade on a blank hard drive first
Before you even think about going that far please get the exact error message & post it.
Ttheres issues with overlaying Windows with IE and/or the USB update installed
Could be a simple fix
Let us know

[tward]

Scandisk creating that many .chk files could indicate that the hard drive is going bad, which could also explain why the re-install didn't work. I suggest running a diagnostic program available from whoever made the drive to check its condition.

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[This message has been edited by tward (edited 11-02-2000).]

[Paws]

Yeah, this is a tough one to solve without the error.

It would be nice to see where the error come up too.

It could be almost anything.

I suggest going over to your bosses PC and doing a step-by-step start up first. It sounds like a System.INI problem though, if I were to hazard a guess.

But yeah, it is almost certainly a HDD problem too.

Joe

[stev-rey]

Thanks anyway guys.
The boss took the computer to the shop before I could get my hands back on it again.

Bet Mosaic1 sent him a WARNING

But. . .
I dont think the hard drive is bad, as I did a full scandisk before reinstalling and no bad sectors were reported.

Anyway,I'm sure the shop made a quick few dollars.

Jtdoom e-mailed me about using setup with switches and that's what I needed.