System restore?

[midlandman]

How do I do a System restore with win95?Is it posible?From Dos?
Thanks!

 

[Jtoast]

no such thing as system restore in windows 95. You will have to either restore from a manual backup or reformat/reinstall.

 

[flavallee]

System Restore is only available with Windows ME(which needs a required patch to run right) and with Windows XP. Windows 95 is pretty long in the tooth. If your computer is not more than 4 - 5 years old, its hardware may be compatible for a Windows 98SE upgrade, which I would highly recommend.

Frank's Windows 95/98 Tips

 

[~Candy~]

May I ask what problem you are having?

 

[midlandman]

Thanks for your replys guys!
A freind of mine tried to install a new Canon Printer,and for some reason it messed up his computer.Now he can't download from the internet anymore,or from the CD-ROM.Someone here told me before that MS-DOS has a system restore,and I thought that it might help his cause.His Computer is about 5yrs old...Pentium1...pretty outdated by todays standards I guess.
And I have another question...can he install Win98 over Win95...and then WinXP over that?Without uninstalling anything?

 

[Del]

Should be able to boot to dos and do a scanreg /restore

 

[~Candy~]

For the second time, 95 doesn't have scanreg /restore

I certainly wouldn't recommend the 95 to 98 to XP upgrade......btw, if he's running 95 now, I'd question whether his system would/could support 98.....and doubt it could do XP.....

 

[midlandman]

I BELIEVE YOU,AcaCandy!!! I do!!
I was under the impression that the Scanreg /Restore was in the DOS program.
And as for the different OS's,is it advisable to uninstall 95 prior to installing 98 as well as 98>XP?(If your installing the FULL version,not the upgrade)Thanks again...

 

[~Candy~]

You can't just 'uninstall' an operating system.....if you did a clean format of the hard drive, you could install 98 or XP.....but you missed some of my concerns regarding the system specs.......

BTW, even the upgrade will install on a clean hard drive with no prior operating system...you will need to have on hand the disks or cd for 95 or 98 (depending on which way you are going) to prove prior ownership of an operating system.

 

[Del]

Sorry, only see this one,
For the second time, 95 doesn't have scanreg /restore
must be going blind in my old age.
And a little more critical of criticism!!

 

[Jtoast]

I would strongly recommend against putting XP on a Pentium 1.

XP needs AT LEAST 256MB to run happily on a modern system and 6-8gb to run happily on its own partition (including swap file, etc).

It will be extremely slow if you do manage to make it work.


98 upgrade would be more feasable but would also depend on speed of processor, amount of ram installed, and size of harddrive.

 

[jm100dm]

midlandman
Could we get some more specifics to your friends problem. May just need to repair IE.




Del

Originally posted by Del:
Sorry, only see this one,
For the second time, 95 doesn't have scanreg /restore
must be going blind in my old age.
And a little more critical of criticism!!

Just to clarify Candy was referring to the first time being Jtoast's first post. Not a personal attack on you.

 

[~Candy~]

Thanks jm........I had just sent Del a private message apologizing if he misundersood my post, it definitely wasn't a personal attack........if I had just posted without indicating it had already been said, then Jtoast would have been angry at me for taking his idea