Dan,

Without specific details of what your PC is/has/contains we can't give you
detailed answers.  There are a LOT of questions that need to be answered
before anyone can give you specific guidance.  We are good <grin> but we are
not clairvoyant <wink, wink> <nudge, nudge>

What kind of Win 95 CD is it?  upgrade? OEM? retail? 95A? 95B?
Do you have multiple hard drives or only one?  What size is it?
Does it have multiple partitions?
What is the type of BIOS? What is the date of the BIOS.
Etc. etc. etc. etc.

In general...
Create a boot disk.
Add the CD's driver and MSCDEX.EXE
Create CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to load the CD driver.
Reboot the PC using the floppy disk.
Run FDISK and delete the active partition.
Use FDISK to create a new partition.
Make the new partition ACTIVE.
Format C: /sys
Install your software.


Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Hughes <[log in to unmask]>



> I have a computer with W95 that runs the internet terribly slowly.  The
> computer had the anti.exe virus, which I got rid of with an antivirus
> program, but it didn't help the speed.
>
> I want to completely erase everything and start over.  I have the W95 CD.
>  What steps do I take to format this computer and start fresh?  (Don't
> worry about the loss of any info on the hard drive--nothing important
> there).
>

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