Windows 95

Hello everyone, I just joined and hope that someone can help me. I am trying to reinstall Win 95 on a old PC all go's well untill the PC reachs C:\> I don't no the command to type. This is what the screen looks like.
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Diskette Drive A : 1.44M, 3.5 in. Display Type : EGA/VGA
Diskette Drive B : None Serial Port(s) : 3F8 2F8
Pri. Master Disk : LBA ,Mode 4, 2541MB Parallel Port(s):3F8 2F8
Pri. Slave Disk : None EDO DRAM : OnBoard
Sec.Master Disk : CDROM,Mode 4 SDRAM : None
Sec.Slave Disk : None L2 Cache Type ipelined Burst
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PCI device listing.....
Bus No. Device No. Func No. Vendor ID Device ID Device Class IRQ
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0 7 1 8086 7111 IDE Controller 14
0 7 2 8086 7112 Serial Bus Controller 11

Verifying DMI Pool Data.......
Starting MS- DOS ...

HIMEM is testing extended memory...done.

C:\>C;\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
C:\>
Can someone please help?
Many thanks, Coote

 

Hello Coote, Welcome to TSG.

I assume that this is a clean re-install, meaning that you reformatted the drive, so:

At the C:\> prompt type D: and press enter. (Assuming that D is your CDRom drive.)

Insert the Windows 95 CD in the CDRom drive.

At the D:\> prompt, type setup and press enter.

Good luck.

Kilowatt

 

If you have the hard drive space, I would recommend copying the source files to a directory there first. Then install from the hard drive.

The advantage is that whenever Windows needs to find a driver, it will simply get it from the hard drive. You don't need to go fishing out your CD ROM.

 

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately i'm still having trouble. Trying to re-install win 95.
At the C:\> prompt i type D: and press enter. I get the massage ( Invalid drive specification )
I don't no if i have a clean re-install? Should i un-install win 95 and start over. If so can someone please run me through the un-install and re-install.
I have the win 95 CDR and MS DOS 6.2 Disk 1, 2, and 3.
Will someone be willing to help.
Thanks Coote

 

I have a section with instructions for creating a boot disk at http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/floppies.htm.


There is also a Win98 one I use which you can download and extract. It has the generic CD ROM drivers which will install as drive X: