Guest fran via WindowsKB.com Posted July 24, 2007 Posted July 24, 2007 What is process for reinstalling windows 95. I, have an old computer I'm donating...and I wiped it and reformated, but now I can't get windows 95 to open, only dos prompts. and I don't know that much about dos. I have cd I got several years ago from e-bay for reinstalling, and diskette, but have forgotten procedures in the meantime. (!!!) I would like to load the windows 95 back on, and put on the office 95 I have too, so the next person can put the computer to good use. unfortunately, every reference to windows 95 install is over my head.... guess the writers assume I should know what they're talking about! and I don't!!!! -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com
Guest RobertVA Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: What is process for reinstalling windows 95? fran via WindowsKB.com wrote: > What is process for reinstalling windows 95. I, have an old > computer I'm donating...and I wiped it and reformated, but now I can't get > windows 95 to open, only dos prompts. and I don't know that much about dos. > I have cd I got several years ago from e-bay for reinstalling, and diskette, > but have forgotten procedures in the meantime. (!!!) I would like to load > the windows 95 back on, and put on the office 95 I have too, so the next > person can put the computer to good use. > > unfortunately, every reference to windows 95 install is over my head.... > guess the writers assume I should know what they're talking about! and I > don't!!!! You will need to boot the computer with a floppy disk that is configured to copy the DOS external commands to a virtual disk AND load CD-ROM drivers and CD extensions under DOS. Boot floppies made with Windows 95's utility might not feature CD-ROM capabilities, although ones generated by Windows 98 may. Check out http://www.bootdisk.com/ if you don't have one. IF the computer's hard drive doesn't have a partition on it you may need to create a partition with the interactive FDISK program. You will then be able to install Windows by running the Setup.exe file on the CD. Have the CD key available to type in when prompted. Look CAREFULLY at the CD key to make sure there is no confusion about characters like capital "b" and eight, capital "i" lower case "L" and one or capital "o" and zero. I prefer to create a second partition of a couple of Gigabytes, copy the windows installation cabinet files there and install thee OS from the hard drive. That partition can later be used for a page file that won't get fragmented by normal boot partition use. Installing from a hard drive partition eliminates the need to insert the Windows 95 CD into the drive when new peripherals are connected to the system as well.
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