Windows 95 Software Updates

Since the release of Windows 95 in August 1995, Microsoft have released a number of updates and enhancements to the operating system. The file below was obtained from Microsoft, and can be found in File Area 7 of Apricot Insight BBS. This is in addition to the updates documented in IPBs 2247 and 2257.

• DSKTSUPD.EXE

(The following text outlining the update was taken directly from Microsoft’s Web site)

Disk Type Specific Driver Update for Windows 95

This update resolves a problem in Windows 95 which may, in certain specific configurations, lead to corrupted data on extended partitions on large IDE drives.

This problem may arise if all of the below conditions are true:

• The hard disk is a large (>504 MB) Enhanced IDE hard disk.
• The hard disk is accessed using Logical Block Addressing (LBA).
• The hard disk has been partitioned into multiple partitions with the Windows 95 version of FDISK, or another partitioning utility that creates MS-DOS extended partition types 0x0E and 0x0F.
• The system BIOS supports extended INT13 functions to access hard disk devices.
• You have exited to MS-DOS mode from Windows 95 without rebooting the computer.

Under these conditions, the contents of logical drives in the extended partition may appear incorrect or corrupted. If these logical drives are written to under this condition, information may be written incorrectly to these drives, resulting in data corruption.

Users of computers with large IDE hard disks (greater than 504mb), partitioned into multiple logical drives, with a system BIOS that supports extended INT13 functions, should obtain this update.

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