Hi, Not sure if this is the correct forum, but lets hope so! 
I sent this email to NEC a few weeks ago, and alas, not response
Shocking at how many corporations like to ignore emails if it requires their assistance and or is about a warrenty question. Anyhow, I thought maybe some of you wonderfully skilled techs could help me, Thanks! Here is the email I sent NEC:
Hi,
I own a NEC 4050C laptop with Windows95 on it. I want to format the hard drive, and have a fresh install of Windows95.
I cannot currently run the Win95 setup.exe becuase of some conflicts.
The first error I get when attempting to run the EXE file off the Windows CD is this :
WINDOWS SETUP
Setup found a compressed volume or a disk cache utility on your computer. Quit setup and check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove the disk cache utility. Then run setup again.
Click cancel to exit setup, Click continue if you've already done this.
I'm not sure what is causing this, and I don't know why or how a drive would be compressed.
If I click continue, I get another error message after the preparing for installation status bar reaches 100% and I view the EULA:
Error SU-0013
Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows.
If you have HPFS or WindowsNT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compressionh, disable it before running setup. See setup.txt on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM.
Click OK to exit setup.
I get those errors wether I start the setup from inside Windows or I start it through MS-DOS. I've looked for formatting instructions but as the laptop has only one drive slot and can utilize one drive at a time, most procedures won't work. I found some instructions how to do it on a single drive laptop but the directions were not ver detailed, and because of the error messages I recieve their instructions also did not work.
Thanks for your time,
Jay Brooks
I sent this email to NEC a few weeks ago, and alas, not response
Hi,
I own a NEC 4050C laptop with Windows95 on it. I want to format the hard drive, and have a fresh install of Windows95.
I cannot currently run the Win95 setup.exe becuase of some conflicts.
The first error I get when attempting to run the EXE file off the Windows CD is this :
WINDOWS SETUP
Setup found a compressed volume or a disk cache utility on your computer. Quit setup and check your compressed volume with your disk compression software or remove the disk cache utility. Then run setup again.
Click cancel to exit setup, Click continue if you've already done this.
I'm not sure what is causing this, and I don't know why or how a drive would be compressed.
If I click continue, I get another error message after the preparing for installation status bar reaches 100% and I view the EULA:
Error SU-0013
Setup could not create files on your startup drive and cannot set up Windows.
If you have HPFS or WindowsNT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compressionh, disable it before running setup. See setup.txt on Setup Disk 1 or the Windows CD-ROM.
Click OK to exit setup.
I get those errors wether I start the setup from inside Windows or I start it through MS-DOS. I've looked for formatting instructions but as the laptop has only one drive slot and can utilize one drive at a time, most procedures won't work. I found some instructions how to do it on a single drive laptop but the directions were not ver detailed, and because of the error messages I recieve their instructions also did not work.
Thanks for your time,
Jay Brooks