I uninstalled win.95 and then when i went to reinstall i was told there were errors and i should stop close windows and run scandisk. i failed to make a start-up disk in case i had trouble opening windows. i closed win.3.1 and sure enough now i cant open it up again. i'm in ms-dos 6.x.when i tried to reinstall win.95 it tells me to go to the windows that is on my computer and install from there.great, i would love to, only how do i open windows again without a start-up disk. if there is another way to get win.95 on my computer, please tell me how....reformat harddrive, sounds like alot of hassel.........

I'm pretty sure 'running from Windows' is only a suggestion - you should be able to continue the install in DOS - that's how I installed mine. Mind you, there are all sorts of Win95 installations - OEM, upgrade, floppy, CD as well as 3 or 4 versions. Of course, there may be other factors (hdd problems, incomplete install/uninstall) - kind of hard to say from the information. ECKELSYSTEMS?

Which version of 95 are you installing i.e. UPGRADE,FULL/OEM,Versions A,B,C.? Your description of the problem and what tools you have is lacking but I will try and give suggestions. Firt if its an upgrade repair your Win3x system first then reinstall the 95 upgrade. If you no longer have the Win3x floppies there are files you can make on the C drive to make Win95 upgrade think its installed. You may have messed the system up and need to reinstall everyhting in which case use a dos prompt to back your files up prior to format and reinstall.If you do this make SURE you have all the drivers for the hardware BEFORE you procede.

i have tried to install win. 95 floppys from ms-dos but it keeps telling me to go to the windows version that is already on my computer and install from there. i would but i cant open it so that i can install from there

Well, I don't know what to say, Silver - it sounds like the original 13 floppy 'upgrade' version of Win95, which can be installed from the DOS prompt (and, afaik, all Win95 versions can). Are you trying to install 95 overtop of your Win31 (in the same folder)? Are you trying to preserve the original Win31 installation? If you aren't, maybe you could deltree that directory. If you do delete it, and you are using the upgrade version, keep Disk1 of the old installation handy, Win95 may ask to confirm that you 'own' Win31.

jboy, when i try to reinstall win 95 floppies im told that it cant decompress the file { not sure of the name of the file at this moment}. i installed win.95 i guess on top of 31.then a few months later i uninstalled win 95 which left me back at win 31. i played a few games and then tryed to reinstall win95 at that point i was told by win 95 that i had an error and that i should stop the install and close win 31 and then run scandisk. i was told that i should make a start up disk in case i had trouble starting win. again. well, i didnt make the start up disk { real stupid on my part}and sure enough i cant get win to start. help if you can ok. thank you for all your time you have put in on behalf.

No problem, that's what we're here for :) Can't say as I've ever encountered this particular difficulty before, but I'm guessing that something went wrong with the re-installation of Win95, which has probably messed up your Win31. Also, your Win95 floppy set may very well have errors. It would be a good idea to run scandisk on them. Is it the first disk that causes the error message? In that set, only the first and the last disks are in the 'regular' 1.44 Mb format - the rest are DMF (Dense Media Format), about 1.6 Mb Win9x has no problem with those, but DOS6x can't normally read them. You can check the first disk with DOS scandisk (and the last) but you'd need a Win9x machine to run Scandisk on the rest. It wouldn't hurt to scan your C: drive as well. IF you have your Win31 disks (and they're error free) you might be better off to delete that entire directory with DOS deltree or DOSSHELL. You can still boot to DOS 6xx ? After that, you could either try installing Win95 again, or else try restoring Win31 and go from there. You could start over by formatting, but that would wipe out everything on your disk, and you'd need to reinstall DOS - your Win95 set sounds like the upgrade version - it's not bootable, and also, you need to 'show it' that you own an earlier version of Windows. Always good to have a few boot disks, such as the DOS disk for your version, as well as Win9x 'startup' disks. They're pretty widely available, one place would be bootdisk.com. Post back.