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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Ace on October 04, 2002, 08:24:13 AM

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: Ace on October 04, 2002, 08:24:13 AM

Hi,

My Uncle is trying to reload his Win95 OS onto his computer but he lost his boot up disk. I downloaded a boot up disk for him but I don\'t know the command line to get 95 installing from the disk.

I tried walking him through the bios set up to change the boot up sequence so it would boot up from his CDrom, but he said he could not find it on the bios. :confused:

I know he has to change the prompt to the CDrom drive letter and type the command. I think it\'s setup.exe but I am not sure.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Ace

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: mm on October 04, 2002, 08:26:55 AM

win95 cd\'s are not bootable

he needs a floppy boot disk

go into bios and look for "1st boot device" and make it floppy

boot with boot disk, cd to cddrom drive and type

x:\\setup  (x being cdrom drive letter)

why 95 tho?  its teh suck
if his rig can run 95, it can run 98

oh, wrong forum too
:)

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: Ace on October 04, 2002, 08:34:31 AM

Sorry mm, after I hit submit I remembered this forum.

I downloaded and created a bootable 95 floppy. I tried walking him through the bios to change the sequence but he couldn\'t find the page with boot devices. Which I guess doesn\'t matter since the 95 disk is not bootable.

I\'ll see how he does with the floppy.

Thanks for the info.

Ace

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on October 04, 2002, 01:19:54 PM

95.. Gezz, Tell him to update to 2000 or XP. :)

If u have any trouble try this site. http://www.bootdisk.com/  newbie site for installing Operating systems, creating bootdisks etc.

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: Ace on October 04, 2002, 01:24:45 PM

I don\'t think that\'s going to happen. My family is, lets say, frugal.
:)

Thanks for the link, that\'s where I downloaded the boot disk.

Ace

Title: Computer Question/Loading Win95
Post by: SonyFan on October 20, 2002, 03:10:13 PM

Another problem you might run into... if his computer came with Win95 then it\'s probably too old to recognize the CDRom as a local drive which is accessable. You\'ll have to install and initialize a generic CDRom driver called MSCDX.com (I believe). Once the computer recognises that the funky non-Harddrive device hooked into his IDE cables is a CDRom and knows the basics of how to operate it.. the rest of the procedure should go fine.

(BTW: He really SHOULD upgrade to Win2k or else he\'ll be going through this entire process all over again in another few months when things get all buggered up and he needs to reinstall everything. :crap: )