Did he upgrade from a system with originally had dos and win3.11?  If so, he
might want to start over again and install his dos first, then win311, then
win95 and finally win98.

Tedious, but it should work.

Peg

-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Havenhill <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 7:37 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Recovering after Win98


>My boyfriend successfully installed an upgrade of Win98 onto his
>computer.  One day, while passing a dull afternoon, he went to the
>Microsoft upgrade site and started downloading stuff.  This totally
>toasted his system.  So he decided to perform a Fdisk and start all over
>from scratch.
>
>The Fdisk was successful.  When he loaded Win95, everything appears fine
>until rebooting for the first time.  He gets a message saying that it
>cannot find Command.com.  It is either corrupted or missing
>
>The C> prompt will not allow him to perform a DIR or change directories.
>The Windows start up disk does the same thing.
>Just for Grins, he has been able to successfully install Windows 3.11,
>but since he does not have an upgrade version of Win95 he cannot proceed
>any further.
>
>He did not perform the FAT32 on his system.  He has a P133, 64mb RAM,
>clone - not a Compaq with CMOS hidden on the hard drive.
>
>What are we missing?
>
>Nancy Havenhill
>