I what to compleatly wipe my hard drive and reinstall windows 95. I have a boot disk. My computer is off. What do I do next?

That's a win95 question.

Your question is a rather large one, which is probably why the Dos specialist has reffered you to Win95, but I think that you are probably more concerned with things like FDisk, Format, etc. which are more like Dos than windows. Being slightly more forgiving than the previous replyer I will say that you need to: Back-up your files/important data Find/Create a boot disk which contains your CD driver. Once you have checked that you can definatly boot of this and gain access to you CD after booting of the disk you can start wiping the hard disk. First of all you will need to boot of the boot disk and run FDisk. This will present you with a number of options, you will probably want to delette the Primary Dos Partition, if you have more than one you can delette these but only if you are sure that you don't want them. Once they have being deletted you should create a new one to replace it, following the onscreen prompts. After this exit FDisk and restart the machine, still using the boot disc. When the machine comes up again you will notice that you can't access the C:, simply run Format with a C: paramater, like below: A:\Format C: This will then ask you if you really want to do it, and then ask you for a label for the partition. Once this is all finished you should be able to go on your Win95 CD and run the Setup.exe under the Win95 directory, like below: D:\Win95\Setup *Change the D: to which ever one your CD is.* This should guide you through the rest of the way. Please Note: This is never as easy as it seems. Always make sure that you can access the Win95 setup to re-install. Bewarned there can be lots of problems assosiated with the FDisk part of this guide, if you aren't sure whether you need it or not just ignore it and format the C:. Feel free to ask me futher questions. Its always better to ask than to risk losing important files, unless you want to be a Tech in which case just mess to your harts content. To Jakob Berglund, you'll notice that until you enter the Win95 setup you are in DOS, be it version 7.1 or not, its still Dos.

Your question is a rather large one, which is probably why the Dos specialist has reffered you to Win95, but I think that you are probably more concerned with things like FDisk, Format, etc. which are more like Dos than windows. Being slightly more forgiving than the previous replyer I will say that you need to: Back-up your files/important data Find/Create a boot disk which contains your CD driver. Once you have checked that you can definatly boot of this and gain access to you CD after booting of the disk you can start wiping the hard disk. First of all you will need to boot of the boot disk and run FDisk. This will present you with a number of options, you will probably want to delette the Primary Dos Partition, if you have more than one you can delette these but only if you are sure that you don't want them. Once they have being deletted you should create a new one to replace it, following the onscreen prompts. After this exit FDisk and restart the machine, still using the boot disc. When the machine comes up again you will notice that you can't access the C:, simply run Format with a C: paramater, like below: A:\Format C: This will then ask you if you really want to do it, and then ask you for a label for the partition. Once this is all finished you should be able to go on your Win95 CD and run the Setup.exe under the Win95 directory, like below: D:\Win95\Setup *Change the D: to which ever one your CD is.* This should guide you through the rest of the way. Please Note: This is never as easy as it seems. Always make sure that you can access the Win95 setup to re-install. Bewarned there can be lots of problems assosiated with the FDisk part of this guide, if you aren't sure whether you need it or not just ignore it and format the C:. Feel free to ask me futher questions. Its always better to ask than to risk losing important files, unless you want to be a Tech in which case just mess to your harts content. To Jakob Berglund, you'll notice that until you enter the Win95 setup you are in DOS, be it version 7.1 or not, its still Dos.