Thank you for everyone's advice. I have downloaded a new boot disk, but my
disk drive quit working again. I may end up needing to get a new disk drive
for it. So I am patiently working with the wires and trying to see if I can
be so lucky to have it work again. If not, it may be awhile before I can get
some results. I will keep you posted! Thanks so much for all of your help,
you have been so kind!!
--Angie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Reformatting nightmare!


> Ray and Angie Davis wrote:
>
> > Thank You, I looked to be sure that everything was connected, yesterday.
I
> > didn't think to check for loose wires. That was the problem! (Sometimes
> > things are so simple!) Now that it recognizes the A drive, I rebooted
using
> > the boot disk and it takes me to an A prompt. Is there something I am
> > suppose to type in here to be able to load windows?
>
> Here is a blow by blow set of steps for how
> I recently installed win95. Others may have
> better/different steps, but this worked for me
> after some trial and error.
>
> Step 1.
> Boot the system using a Windows 95 boot diskette.
>
> If you have lost it or it does not have the appropriate
> CD ROM drivers on it then you can get a boot disk from
> www.bootdisk.com that will have a generic CD ROM
> driver on it. (That is what I had to do).
>
> As the system boots off the floppy you should see
> something like this:
>
> MSCDEX Version 2.XX
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1986-1995. All rights reserved.
>      Drive R: = Driver SOMETHING unit 0
> A:\>
>
> The drive letter may be different on your set up.
> The important thing is to note the drive letter
> following that MSCDEX statement. In my case it
> is drive R:
>
> Step 2.
>
> Enter the following command. I am including the
> prompt you will see with each of the commands I
> ask you to enter. This is for reference. You should
> not enter the prompt as part of the command.
>
> A:\>fdisk
>
> Within fdisk create a Primary DOS partition if one
> does not already exist.
> (Be careful if you want to keep any existing information
> since fdisk allows you to delete existing partitions (drives)
> as well as create new ones.)
>
> The important thing here is to make sure there is
> a "primary" DOS partition.
>
> After creating this Windows may ask you to restart
> the computer. Do so leaving the Windows 95 boot
> floppy in the A: drive.
>
>
> Step 3.
>
> If you had to create a new Primary DOS partition
> then you will now need to format it. Enter the
> following command to format the C: drive.
>
> A:\>format C:
>
> It will remind you that you are about to erase
> all existing data on the C: drive (even if this
> DOS partition is freshly created and has no data
> on it.)
>
> Enter a label of some sort like WIN95CDRIVE
>
> Step 4.
>
> Here is the interesting step.
>
> Make sure the Windows 95 CD is in the CD ROM drive.
>
> Change to the C: drive you just finished formatting.
> A:\>C: <enter>
>
> Your prompt should now be C:\>
>
> Type in these commands:
>
> C:\>mkdir win95
> C:\WIN95>cd win95
> C:\WIN95>copy R:\win95\*.* C:\win95
>
> Where R: is the drive that showed up following the
> MSCDEX command.
>
> Then enter this command to begin win95 installation
>
> C:\WIN95\>setup
>
> Follow the standard win95 installation directions from
> there.
>
> Let us know how you are getting on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> matt
>
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