Windows95 reinstallation

[ProgrammerJon]

Recently I re-formated my hard drive on a old P1 that had windows95 on it.
When I tried re-installing it I kept getting a error something like this; "kernal32.dll has caused a general protection falt in something els"

I tried using a different hard drive and I still got the same error.
any idea's?

[NoteMe]

What file format is it on the drive???? Fat32??? I'm not 100%sure, but I think that Win 98 is the first Win OS that suports Fat32, Win only supports Fat16...

[VisionIT]

NoteMe's right, almost...

All Windows 95 versions older than OSR2 operate on a FAT16 partition, and in some cases... FAT12.

Here is a table showing the maximum partition size to get clusters of a given size. You cannot format any HD in DOS with less than a cluster size of 2k.

4K (4096 bytes) 16 MB FAT12
2K (2048 bytes) 32 MB FAT16 (DOS versions < 4.0)
2K (2048 bytes) 128 MB FAT16 (DOS versions >= 4.0)
4K (4096 bytes) 256 MB FAT16
8K (8192 bytes) 512 MB FAT16
16K (16384 bytes) 1 GB FAT16
32K (32768 bytes) 2 GB FAT16

Kernel32.DLL protection faults can be caused by litterally anything, so it's hard to narrow it down. It could be a memory leak in the kernel, or an uninitialised critical section under a Win32 sub-section. Here are a few fault addresses for you to compare with your error.

4.03.1216 '0157:BFF79F97' 95 4.00.950B or C
4.03.1212 '0157:BFF79FA4' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2.1)
4.00.1112 '0137:BFF99C00' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2)
4.00.1111 '0137:BFF9A3C0' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2)
4.00.952 '0137:BFF998AC' 95 4.00.950A
4.00.951 '0137:BFF9A08C' 95 4.00.950A
4.00.950 '0137:BFF9A07C' 95 4.00.950A

If any of the addresses marked ' ' match your error, you have a kernel critical section missing... and you will need to upgrade it via the Microsoft website. The file you will need is

"KRNLUPD.EXE"


Can you give a more specific breakdown of when and where it crashes... it'll make life an awfull lot easier.

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Paul.

[NoteMe]

Thanks VisionIT for giving me a little bit right...

[VisionIT]

Hey...

Thats why i'm here!

Regards,

Paul.

[siyan]

isn't it possible that the file is corrupt? i don't think old-school LZExpand had any CRC protection.

[ProgrammerJon]

Originally posted by NoteMe
What file format is it on the drive???? Fat32??? I'm not 100%sure, but I think that Win 98 is the first Win OS that suports Fat32, Win only supports Fat16...

It was a Fat32 drive.

[ProgrammerJon]

Originally posted by VisionIT
NoteMe's right, almost...

All Windows 95 versions older than OSR2 operate on a FAT16 partition, and in some cases... FAT12.

Here is a table showing the maximum partition size to get clusters of a given size. You cannot format any HD in DOS with less than a cluster size of 2k.

4K (4096 bytes) 16 MB FAT12
2K (2048 bytes) 32 MB FAT16 (DOS versions < 4.0)
2K (2048 bytes) 128 MB FAT16 (DOS versions >= 4.0)
4K (4096 bytes) 256 MB FAT16
8K (8192 bytes) 512 MB FAT16
16K (16384 bytes) 1 GB FAT16
32K (32768 bytes) 2 GB FAT16

Kernel32.DLL protection faults can be caused by litterally anything, so it's hard to narrow it down. It could be a memory leak in the kernel, or an uninitialised critical section under a Win32 sub-section. Here are a few fault addresses for you to compare with your error.

4.03.1216 '0157:BFF79F97' 95 4.00.950B or C
4.03.1212 '0157:BFF79FA4' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2.1)
4.00.1112 '0137:BFF99C00' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2)
4.00.1111 '0137:BFF9A3C0' 95 4.00.950B (OSR 2)
4.00.952 '0137:BFF998AC' 95 4.00.950A
4.00.951 '0137:BFF9A08C' 95 4.00.950A
4.00.950 '0137:BFF9A07C' 95 4.00.950A

If any of the addresses marked ' ' match your error, you have a kernel critical section missing... and you will need to upgrade it via the Microsoft website. The file you will need is

"KRNLUPD.EXE"


Can you give a more specific breakdown of when and where it crashes... it'll make life an awfull lot easier.

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Paul.

the oringal hard drive was 2GB, but I also tried a 512 MB hard drive.
I tried two windows95 cd-roms.
I could get dos 6 installed fine.(that's what is on it right now.)

I can't give you any more information right now because it was acutly my friends computer.