Need some Experienced Help Please

[RevolutionNeo]

Hola,

This is my first real post so forgive any mistakes I may make.
My girlfriend decided that she wanted to reinstall Windows 95 on her computer, so she decided to format her computer although she has absolutely no clue what she is doing (obviously since she is still using 95). She does the typical C:format and everything is deleted. Now she can't get her computer to put Windows 95 back onto the computer. We have a boot disc for Windows 95, although this doesnt get us very far since we cannot locate her CD drive. I tried typing in D:/ to access her CD drive (D) although it keeps on telling me that it cannot find the specific drive, it doesnt say this verbetumly but i think you get the drift. And that is how far I can get. If anyone has any suggestions other than throwing the piece of crap out the window I would be glad to try it.

R. Neo

 

[WarCon]

I hope someone you know has Win98 loaded on their system. Just make a Win98 boot disk. It will include the generic CDrom drivers needed to see the CD in dos. Then you can just run setup from the CD.

 

[RevolutionNeo]

Ok. We tried to install Win98 also although the computer came to the same result, desired to be thrown out the window. The bootdisc for 98 didn't help much either, perhaps I am working it wrong. Suggestions for corrections?
R. Neo

 

[bruincal]

you tried to install win98? did you try creating a boot disk through a win98 system like WarCon said? in win98, go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, click on the Boot Disk tab, and create your boot disk. Put that into the disk drive of the computer you're trying to install win95 on, and restart it. It should boot up on the boot disk, and you will get a menu. choose the option Boot up Comptuer with CD-ROM support (or something like that), and after everything loads, you will get a command prompt. change to D:\ or could be E:\ and run setup.exe (with win95 in the cd drive of course). you should try E:\ also even though your cd drive was D:\ in windows. the boot disk might have set D:\ to be a ram disk or something else; you never know.


what you can also do is to bypass the boot from a floppy completely. instead, put the win95 cd into the drive, restart the computer and get into your BIOS setup (usually by either pressing F2 or Del at startup) ... change the boot order to CD-ROM, Hard Drive, and then floppy. Save the changes and then restart. If your computer supports cd-rom booting, it should automatically load setup from the CD at startup. Just remember that you'll want to change the boot order back to floppy, hard drive, and then CD-ROM after win95 has been installed.

you do realize also that after you install win95, you have the task of finding the drivers for everything and installing those too right? =P

i've installed win95 and win98 on more than 100 computers ... and finding the drivers part is probably the worst =P

good luck =)

 

[neovan]

i agree with bruincal...go to the bios and make sure the first bootup device is the cdrom and then when you restart make sure the win98 disc is in the drive and you should be ready to go.

good luck

stay away from win95

 

[Bleep]

If you have the 98 boot disk it has a generic cd rom driver. Just boot with the boot disk in the drive, when it shows the A drive just type in E/ this is because the 98 boot disk sets up a ram drive which moves the CD from D to E when the E drive shows up just type in setup and it should load the 95

Bleep

 

[Evadman]

Win 98 is a bootable CD-rom. Just go into the bios, and make cd-rom the first boot device, then you should be set.

It will give 2 options first. Boot from cd-rom and boot from hard drive select cd-rom.

then it will give 3 more options. start win98 setup, start computer with cd-rom support and start computer without cd-rom support. Select setup, and you should be good to go.

 

[Bglad]

If the machine is that old, it is questionable whether it will boot from a cd-rom.

Still create a boot disk from win98 like they said. Then type "d:" (assuming your cd is the d drive) to switch to the cd rom. You should be able to type "dir" and see the contents of the cd. Then type "setup" to start the win95 setup program.

 

[Bglad]

Oh yeah, just read Bleeps post. He is right about the ramdisk. CD-rom will be E: drive.

 

[RevolutionNeo]

To whom it concerns:

Many thanks to everyone who helped, apperently the boot disc that I was using was corrupt or something somewhat similar. We have Win running on the computer and its launch out the window has been postponed for at least another week.

R. Neo