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Re: Got rid of NT- but haunted by Win95
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Karl Gottshalk <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 8 Dec 1998 06:32:54 -0500
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Try typing in FDISK /MBR several times from your boot floppy (you need FDISK
on it of course). This usually cleans out the last vestiges of Win 95.

>Well, the machine booted from this drive, but a funny thing happened-  I
>got the "starting Windows 95" message and the Win95 splash screen came up.
>The drive had, at one time, had 95 on it, and apparently something from
>that managed to escape the format.


Karl Gottshalk
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