Richard's post (clipped for brevity)

 <<<I have tried several different boot disks, >>>>

Hi,

i presume that all these are for win95 since different o/s need differene boot discs.

<<<< including a dos disk which gets me to A:\ but I can get no further>>>

what was your input at the A:\ prompt? did you try inputting "sys c:" without the quotes?

<<< when I boot normaly >>>

are you able to get into your BIOS? I suggest you check the boot order and set to boot from floppy or cdrom (if you have the original win95 cd)and disable boot from hdd since to me it appears there is a conflict between the corrupted win95 in your hdd and the bootdisc you are trying.

if this helps then you will of course have to enter your bios again and set to boot from hdd.

HTH and good luck----Venkat

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