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Installing Win95 from dos
Name: Alex Date: November 3, 2001 at 07:41:52 Pacific
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Hi, I just formatted my hard drive and everything is tickety boom from what i can see. I have a windows 95b disk, but have no idea how to install it from dos. please help
Name: Harold Date: November 3, 2001 at 08:33:07 Pacific
Reply:
Check out "Install Guides" in the left hand column of this page.
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Response Number 2
Name: Terri Date: November 4, 2001 at 06:20:03 Pacific
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Start with a good win98 boot disk. That will install your cd rom drivers. Win95 boot disks do not. From here find any format step by and follow it. You will first want to fdisk and remove all partitions then set new partitions depending on how many you want, set the main one active. Restart machine. Format c: /s for the main drive. Just use format:(drive letter) for each other drive. Now restart using boot disk, and choose start with cd rom support. Type in cd drive and copy win95 folder to hard drive: C:\md win95 C:\copy (cd drive letter)\win95 c:\win95 c:\win95\setup.exe Install windows.
I hope this is a little more help than the first post left you.
If you need more help please don't hesitate to email me.
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Response Number 3
Name: Incognito Date: November 4, 2001 at 20:38:19 Pacific
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The above will work if your CD drive is an IDE drive, as opposed to a proprietary drive which was prevelant on older 95 systems. If it is a proprietary drive, you need the DOS based drivers for that era/system, for that drive, which are loaded via config.sys (driver) and autoexec.bat (MSCDEX.exe.)
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Response Number 4
Name: chris Date: December 20, 2001 at 15:36:00 Pacific
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am having a problem installing win95 in dos, i have a very old computer and having no luck get it working! i righted useing win98 bootup disk to get the drives put it says it can not find any!!
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