OK, recently I've had a huge HD crash and lost 44 GB of MP3's, movies and games. I was running Windows ME which I had in this computer since August 2001 before this struck. Unfortunately I've long since lost my copy of Windows ME and have been forced to install a copy of Windows 95 which came with the computer I previously had which I bought in 1997.

So basically, should I stick with Windows 95 or upgrade to something newer when I get the chance? So far 95 seems fine but I haven't installed very much so any problems are probably forthcoming. Since Windows 95 is nearly 8 years old, what are the main disadvantages it has over the later versions?

Don't know much technical information about PC's but I have a 55 GB HD and 240 MB RAM. Would this be enough to run XP smoothly, for example?

Any help is appreciated.

Windoze 95, eh , i think i was 8 year old when i last on that OS, All i can recall is that it is shit, if you have an ok Processor e.g 700Mhz Min, and an Ok VGA Card then your laughing, I recommend you get Windows XP and Burn the ISO and install XP, You must of been pissed when u lost 50Gb of Doggie Porn and MP3'S, I Presume that you have DSL or ISDN Min, U will soon get back your stash, If all you do is surf the net, watch porn and visit TA, then i don't seem the point in installing Fancy XP, If you want a Swede desktop and all that other bollox that noone uses then put XP on, If i was u i would go and get Slackware 9.0 and start Hacking.

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Originally posted by aloep OK, recently I've had a huge HD crash and lost 44 GB of MP3's, movies and games. I was running Windows ME which I had in this computer since August 2001 before this struck. Unfortunately I've long since lost my copy of Windows ME and have been forced to install a copy of Windows 95 which came with the computer I previously had which I bought in 1997. So basically, should I stick with Windows 95 or upgrade to something newer when I get the chance? So far 95 seems fine but I haven't installed very much so any problems are probably forthcoming. Since Windows 95 is nearly 8 years old, what are the main disadvantages it has over the later versions? Don't know much technical information about PC's but I have a 55 GB HD and 240 MB RAM. Would this be enough to run XP smoothly, for example? Any help is appreciated.

windows 95 is old, and still relies on some 16 bit code, and its memory management is crap. windows 98 and me where both improvements on the windows 95 core, with 2000 and xp being based on NT what is loads more stable, better management but didnt have directx support for games, hence 2000 and xp where made.

so long as your processer is faster than 400mhz (350 at a push) you should be fine with xp, idealy id say have 256meg ram, but xp runs with just 64, but the more the better! your harddrive is definetly big enough, xp only need 1.5gig of space when installing and depending on how much space system restore and virtual memory takes it can rise to 5gig max (but you can turn system restore off if you want)

anymore questions feal free to ask me and ill give ya soem usefull adivice

Jon
p.s you may want to invest in a cd burner and make backups of all your files as no harddrive is 100% guranteed not to die

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Originally posted by aloep OK, recently I've had a huge HD crash and lost 44 GB of MP3's, movies and games. I was running Windows ME which I had in this computer since August 2001 before this struck. Unfortunately I've long since lost my copy of Windows ME and have been forced to install a copy of Windows 95 which came with the computer I previously had which I bought in 1997. So basically, should I stick with Windows 95 or upgrade to something newer when I get the chance? So far 95 seems fine but I haven't installed very much so any problems are probably forthcoming. Since Windows 95 is nearly 8 years old, what are the main disadvantages it has over the later versions? Don't know much technical information about PC's but I have a 55 GB HD and 240 MB RAM. Would this be enough to run XP smoothly, for example? Any help is appreciated.

Unfortunately for Windows 95, you cannot use the entire 55GB of hard drive space, regardless of how you partition or format your hard drive - all versions of Windows 95 have a hard drive size limit of 32GB total. And some early versions of Windows 95 require that you partition your hard drive into volumes no larger than 2GB, due to the limitations of the FAT16 filing system.

And aside from the hard drive problem, Win 95 doesn't support USB. I'm also not sure whether it supports AGP. Besides, W95 memory management is not as good as the XP one's and XP has NTFS partitions which are better than FAT32.

Btw, Win ME is like the worst windows ever, I don't know a person who has them and doesn't complain about computer crashing once a day. But I'm curious how did you loose all those mp3s and games? I mean if it was just internal software error, it could hardly do that much damage.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Btw, Win ME is like the worst windows ever, I don't know a person who has them and doesn't complain about computer crashing once a day.

If set up corectly ME was just as good as 98, half of the problems with ME crashing was because systems where not set up right...

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Originally posted by DJ RozzeR Windoze 95, eh , i think i was 8 year old when i last on that OS, All i can recall is that it is shit, if you have an ok Processor e.g 700Mhz Min, and an Ok VGA Card then your laughing, I recommend you get Windows XP and Burn the ISO and install XP, You must of been pissed when u lost 50Gb of Doggie Porn and MP3'S, I Presume that you have DSL or ISDN Min, U will soon get back your stash, If all you do is surf the net, watch porn and visit TA, then i don't seem the point in installing Fancy XP, If you want a Swede desktop and all that other bollox that noone uses then put XP on, If i was u i would go and get Slackware 9.0 and start Hacking.

you really do talk some absolutly fucking shite!

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 And aside from the hard drive problem, Win 95 doesn't support USB. I'm also not sure whether it supports AGP.

Half-@$$ed USB support was added in Windows 95 beginning with the OEM Service Release 2.1 - along with half-@$$ed AGP support. Full AGP support came with Windows 98, and proper USB support came with Windows 98 Second Edition.

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Originally posted by Coup you really do talk some absolutly fucking shite!

werd

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Thanks for the responses.

Taking a lot of the points in and having done some research I think it's probably best that I upgrade to a later version soon.

Regarding how I lost all the data, yes I had been having a lot of big problems with ME in the last few months before the crash. From around November onwards it started going very, very slow which I later found out was due to a ton of spyware which had found it's way onto the computer over time. After getting all of that bullshit wiped, it ran well enough till about early January when I started getting a blue screen every time I booted it up saying:

"Windows Protection Error. Failed to locate device NTKERN

System haulted. You must restart your computer."

Or something along those lines. After rebooting it, it would go into safe mode and then I'd reboot it yet again and it would load correctly. I had to go through this process every time I switched on the computer but it's something I got used to after a while until once everything started going very slow when I loaded Windows after this long process. So naturally, I rebooted it ready to go through it again when I got a DOS Prompt screen up and a message telling me the HD was corrupted. There was no way to access Windows and nothing I could do in the DOS Prompt other than press enter so there was no way to backup files via DOS. I let a guy who's "all that" when it comes to computers onto it, he couldn't get into it either so there was nothing to do but erase all data on the HD which was the last thing I thought I would ever do. There was so much stuff that I imagine I'll never be able to replace that I had on that HD but on the bright side, it gives me a clean start on everything and I've now got rid of all the useless bulllshit I didn't want and best of all, no SPYWARE. So it's not the end of the world.

just a little note

you can get away with using a 300 Mhz PII with XP, i use it on my other box
not that great..but it does the job well

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