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Windows 95
Installation Steps
-Step 7-
-The Hardware Detection Phase
-The Setup Wizard will now enter a phase of the installation known as "Hardware Detection." This means that Windows 95 will closely examine your system for all hardware devices it can recognize, and records what it uncovers in the system registry.
-You will be presented with a "Analyzing Your Computer" dialog box that has two options, of which, you can only choose one. The first option is to allow Windows 95 to automatically detect your hardware. It is the default choice, and is strongly recommended that you choose this method. The other radio button is there for you to override the default and allows you to manually select the hardware components of your system.
-After making your selection, and clicking the "Next" button, Windows 95 may present you with a second dialog box that lists certain hardware devices it thinks you have based on information if found in your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files. Check the boxes for those hardware devices you are absolutely sure you have attached to your system, then click the "Next" button.
-Setup now performs the hardware detection for your system. This step can run quite some time, so don't be alarmed. During the hardware detection phase, you should see constant disk activity as indicated by your hard drive's activity light.
-The Hardware Detection phase can sometimes fail. You will know this if you receive an error message, or disk activity suddenly ceases for an extended period of time. Don't be alarmed. You can safely get around a problem by POWERING OFF THE COMPUTER and RESTARTING the SETUP program. DO NOT USE CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart. Just press the power off switch on the computer, wait 30 seconds, and restart.
-Windows 95 keeps track of what it is doing with several Log files. It will know if setup has failed prior to, during or after hardware detection. When you restart your computer, and restart the Setup program, if any of these log files exist, Windows 95 uses them to determine what it has to do to get around the problem. You will see a "Safe Recovery" dialog box that offers you two choices: Use Safe Recovery Method, and Do Not Use Safe Recovery Method. ALWAYS choose to use Safe Recovery. It will help get you past the error which you can troubleshoot at a later time.
 Hardware Requirements
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Step #1 - Scandisk Checks Your Hard Drive
Step #2 - Choosing The Windows 95 Directory
Step #3 - Checking For Available Disk Space
Step #4 - The "Get Connected" Dialog Box
Step #5 - The 'Setup Options' dialog box
Step #6 - "About" dialog box
Step #7 - The Hardware Detection Phase
Step #8 - Choosing The Components Of A Custom Install
Step #9 - The "Computer Settings" dialog box
Step #10 - Creating An Emergency Startup Disk
Step #11 - Installing The Source Files
Step #12 - Finalizing The Computer's Configuration
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