Hello!
I'm not great at computers, but I can follow instructions... so there isn't a lot of base computer knowledge I have so bear with me, haha. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I'm trying to install Windows 95 on a Dell Latitude D620. It's so I can run an x-ray calibration program from way back when that only will run on 3.1 or 95, so here we are. I did this booting up with a Windows 98 CD (since I have no external floppy drive available to me right now) and installing with my own original Windows CD. I had quite a few difficulties even getting to the Setup screen, but finally Setup went through without any hitches that I could see.
But then I rebooted to start Windows, and the splash screen comes up... and then black screen telling me that Windows cannot initialize due to lack of memory. This happens whether I start up normally or in safe mode. I did the suggested fix, which was to edit system.ini to limit the amount of RAM access and the vcache bit. I rebooted, and now the message was that Windows was experiencing a protection error and to restart.
I saw a suggestion that, if system.ini had been adjusted, the problem could be that I'm running an AMD processor. So I go burn amdk6upd.exe onto a CD and followed instructions from Microsoft's page to boot into safe mode command prompt, type win /d:m to get it into safe mode so I could run the update... and I get 'himem.sys is missing.' But it's *not*. It's in the correct directory, in C:\Windows. I searched for it in ms-dos and I found it there.
I went to fix config.sys... only to find I didn't have the file, and I didn't have autoexec.bat, either. So I put those on a disc, copied them into C:\, then I went to edit config.sys, fixed the first line to read: DEVICE=C:\Windows\himem.sys...... and it still tells me himem.sys is missing. Because of this, I can't boot into safe mode. I also tried to boot by step-by-step configuration and skip over himem.sys, but then it still tells me himem.sys is missing.
I just really need this to boot and right now it's the himem.sys file standing in my way. Any ideas? :/
Thank you for your help!