Booting Full WIN95B On Zip?

[HR]

Howdy,

I have MSDOS booting successfully from my SCSI Zip 100. It is treated as a
hard drive C: and all IDE drives move down one drive letter, so C: is now D:
and D: is now E:. Think it's pretty cool 'cause can fit all drivers and
programs on one disk and don't lose function of A: and B: floppy drives.

Have read where full versions of Windows can be on a zip and booted from,
but only parallel and atapi so far. My attempts at loading onto my SCSI Zip
is failing when it comes to initializing the IOS.VXD. Earlier in the boot
log it lists it as loaded but fails at initializing it later. The message
on monitor reads:

While initializing device IOS:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.

All seems to proceed normally until the reboot and Windows states it's
running for the first time. Rebooting at the error message accomplishes
nothing and Safe Mode ends with the same message. Looking in Explorer at
the Zip disk shows that folders and files were never renamed to long file
names because they show tildes and what not. I want to upgrade my computer
to XP, but from past experience with MS my computer could be put out of
commission and looking at the drive from explorer would be lot easier than
analyzing the repercussions from DOS, hence my unorthodox wish to maintain a
GUI boot.

Anybody had success with what I'm attempting?

[Jay]

There was a Norton Zip Rescue that did just what you are asking. It used to
be at Iomega, but no more. Have a hunt on the web for it - it will give you
some insight.

A related website for boot problems on NZR:
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/zipboot.html

Post by HR
Howdy,
I have MSDOS booting successfully from my SCSI Zip 100. It is treated as a
and D: is now E:. Think it's pretty cool 'cause can fit all drivers and
programs on one disk and don't lose function of A: and B: floppy drives.
Have read where full versions of Windows can be on a zip and booted from,
but only parallel and atapi so far. My attempts at loading onto my SCSI Zip
is failing when it comes to initializing the IOS.VXD. Earlier in the boot
log it lists it as loaded but fails at initializing it later. The message
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.
All seems to proceed normally until the reboot and Windows states it's
running for the first time. Rebooting at the error message accomplishes
nothing and Safe Mode ends with the same message. Looking in Explorer at
the Zip disk shows that folders and files were never renamed to long file
names because they show tildes and what not. I want to upgrade my computer
to XP, but from past experience with MS my computer could be put out of
commission and looking at the drive from explorer would be lot easier than
analyzing the repercussions from DOS, hence my unorthodox wish to maintain a
GUI boot.
Anybody had success with what I'm attempting?
--
Hayden

[HR]

Howdy,

Thanks for your input. I did a bit more research and found MS has a patch
for WIN95B on computers with faster AMD processors. Turns out there's a
timing problem with some of MS's .VXD files that needed to be updated. Now
I've got Windows 95B running on a SCSI Zip 100 as drive C: and couldn't be
happier. All this is just as a backup because I'm soon to install WINXP on
my hard drive and from past experience upgrading MS's operating systems it
will disable things for awhile until I get the bugs sorted out. With
windows on a Zip as a backup I can maintain functionability.
--
Hayden

Post by Jay
There was a Norton Zip Rescue that did just what you are asking. It used to
be at Iomega, but no more. Have a hunt on the web for it - it will give you
some insight.
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/zipboot.html

Post by HR
Howdy,
I have MSDOS booting successfully from my SCSI Zip 100. It is treated

as

Post by Jay
a

Post by HR
hard drive C: and all IDE drives move down one drive letter, so C: is

now

Post by Jay

Post by HR
and D: is now E:. Think it's pretty cool 'cause can fit all drivers and
programs on one disk and don't lose function of A: and B: floppy drives.
Have read where full versions of Windows can be on a zip and booted from,
but only parallel and atapi so far. My attempts at loading onto my SCSI

Zip

Post by HR
is failing when it comes to initializing the IOS.VXD. Earlier in the boot
log it lists it as loaded but fails at initializing it later. The message
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.
All seems to proceed normally until the reboot and Windows states it's
running for the first time. Rebooting at the error message accomplishes
nothing and Safe Mode ends with the same message. Looking in Explorer at
the Zip disk shows that folders and files were never renamed to long file
names because they show tildes and what not. I want to upgrade my

computer

Post by HR
to XP, but from past experience with MS my computer could be put out of
commission and looking at the drive from explorer would be lot easier than
analyzing the repercussions from DOS, hence my unorthodox wish to

maintain

Post by Jay
a

Post by HR
GUI boot.
Anybody had success with what I'm attempting?
--
Hayden