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DOS Boot Disk for Windows 95?
Name: jtmurray1701 Date: January 9, 2003 at 18:15:35 Pacific OS: Windows 95, Ver. 4.00.950 CPU/Ram: Cyrix 486 DX4-100 GP4/24
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I have a couple of questions regarding DOS w/Windows 95 - Is it necessary (or possible) to create a DOS boot disk under Windows 95, or would the Win 95 "Startup Disk" suffice in case of disaster? Also, is DOS still a separate system under Windows 95, or just a componet of Win 95? (I ask this because I see info on the Net regarding DOS 6.x, but nothing about 7.x or higher)
Name: jboy Date: January 9, 2003 at 19:08:19 Pacific
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DOS is still the backbone for Win95 - a DOS7x boot disk will start your system with the command prompt - but not much else. You can create one from the DOS prompt using
sys a:
A 'startup' disk will have additional utilities (scandisk, regedit, sys... etc).
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Response Number 2
Name: Petit Jean Date: January 10, 2003 at 06:49:52 Pacific
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Your Windows 95 boot disk has to be improved by adding the CD-ROM and sound support. In autoexec.bat add: set blaster=a220 i5 d1 lh c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /d:oemcd1 in config.sys add: dos=high,umb devicehigh=c:\cdrom\cdrom.sys /d:oemcd1 You may copy your driver for cd-rom and the files like mscdex on the floppy to make an emergency boot disk in case Windows has to be reinstalled.Change the path to A drive and use the name you like for d: .Good luck.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dev Date: January 15, 2003 at 06:06:16 Pacific
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Simple answer!
Original Windows 95/95A bootdisk did not have CD-ROM support. The 95B sometimes did if the dealer added it!
Starting with Windows 98 Microsoft added CD-ROM support.
Visit http://support.micronpc.com/downloads/boot.html and download there Windows 95 bootdisk with CD-ROM support - Test it with your system - If it works, you have your emergancy bootdisk.
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