Windows 95

[coote223]

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

 

[kilowatt1]

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

 

[Bob Cerelli]

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.

 

[coote223]

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

 

[Bob Cerelli]

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: