Holy missing putty plates, Batman!

can you send me an iso if possible? id love to give it a go trying to see if i can fix it.

kiwa wrote:

can you send me an iso if possible? id love to give it a go trying to see if i can fix it.

Check your direct messages.

Got it working!
Maybe you can't share the file directly but i can share my metod.

It's kind of weird to install without the fdisk.key file, but i managed it, ( i had to crack the restore files because they where only compatible with Nec computers)

1- restore floppy image i uploaded, it a generic dos 6.22 boot disk with a generic fdisk.key
http://leoromo.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11 … os6.22.img_.zip

2- Boot the computer with the cd and floppy

3- erase all your partitions with fdisk

4- create one single partition.



the computer will reboot

5- format c:

6- go to r:\tools (R: is your cd drive)

7- run restore.exe

and do a system restore,



it will go to this screen
http://i.imgur.com/fwiE4fg.png
don't do anything

8- Reboot and repeat steps 4 and 5

9- go again to r:\tools and run restore.exe, it will begin automatically the file extraction to c: restoring all files.

after it finishes, it will give you this screen

Now remove the floppy and reboot, it will begin the generic windows 95 install now asking for your W95 Key and some other stuff.

Oh my god. That actually worked. Dude, thank you so much for this. I was having issues with other drivers, too, and those are now sorted out! 😀

Awesome! 😀

Wow awesome post Kiwa! I don't even own the OP's machine but its awesome to see help like this!

Well Done 😀 😀

Hi Kiwa, aware I'm replying to a super old post. If you're around, could you share some insight how you cracked the restore files? I'm working on a nostalgia project:
https://archive.org/download/NECReady962X/NEC … Recovery-CD.iso

kiwa wrote on 2016-11-27, 01:26:

Got it working!
Maybe you can't share the file directly but i can share my metod.

It's kind of weird to install without the fdisk.key file, but i managed it, ( i had to crack the restore files because they where only compatible with Nec computers)

travfrancisco wrote on 2021-06-04, 21:20:

Hi Kiwa, aware I'm replying to a super old post. If you're around, could you share some insight how you cracked the restore files? I'm working on a nostalgia project:
https://archive.org/download/NECReady962X/NEC … Recovery-CD.iso

kiwa wrote on 2016-11-27, 01:26:

Got it working!
Maybe you can't share the file directly but i can share my metod.

It's kind of weird to install without the fdisk.key file, but i managed it, ( i had to crack the restore files because they where only compatible with Nec computers)

Hi, haha wow this is old, but i did make a quick patch that jumped the "bioscheckstring" or something like that to always return true or 1 or something like that.

idk what is your idea exactly but in your iso image you have the restorcd.exe and that also does a similar check, it's looking for some specific strings on the bios "Powermate Versa Image Ready NEC etc" so if you are using a virtual machine you can just edit the string to something like "PowerMate" and test, probably also editing the exe file, replacing any of those strings with idk "Virtual" or "KVM" and changing the checksum could also trigger the correct condition so it could install.

Same thing probably also applies to the windows executable, you need to do the same change to the access.dll

hope this can help.

Thanks for the tips! I will give this a shot.