jim624 Does your friend still have any disks for this computer?
To make the bootdisk on another computer, you should only need to download the file to the desktop, double click it, it will tell you when to insert a floppy disk and then copy the files to it, that makes the bootdisk.
As per your other thread: I searched all over for support info for your PB- there is not much.
http://forums.techguy.org/t113433/s.html
A symptom of bad RAM chips is hanging at the logo screen.
The CMOS battery may also be bad, or very undercharged.
You can try clearing the CMOS, too- just take the battery out for a few minutes, put it back in, when you restart, go into BIOS by pressing the key it tells you like F2, DEL, etc, and just SAVE and EXIT as it tells you, press the key it tells you to reboot.
If you do not have the silver colored round, removable type CR2032 battery, just leave the computer off and plugged in for awhile, it might recharge.
Have you tried holding down the CTRL key at bootup? This may get you a menu to select "Command Prompt" from which, you should be able to type at the A:\format c:
and then hit Enter...that will format the hard drive.
If you can get a prompt, but the format command does not work, type at A:\fdisk
and hit Enter.
Then, if you know what to do, continue, delete the C: partiton and any others you find. This will result in ALL data gone, and so will formatting the drive...so be prepared to have missing drivers when you are done....things like sound, video, modem, may not work afterward....since you have no drivers disk, or Restore CD, you will have to identify each device and hunt for drivers. The PB sites that are archived still have drivers, for some systems, though they produced no hits for your Packmate model....they should be available at other sites....this may take us awhile to get them.
What you should also download to a floppy disk on another pc is the Belarc Advisor, which will ID most of the systems parts like sound, video for you, in a page which you can print or at least copy to a floppy for reference or manually write down. You will need the hardware information to get drivers loaded for devices.
www.belarc.com
You want the Free Download link at top. Put it on desktop, install, it will put up a page with lots of information, includeing the Windows Product Key, which you might need when you run setup....unless you have another Product Key for win95CDROM. Good luck