Or if you want to go the "ultra-cheap" route: 1. Use WinZip (or any popular compression utility for that matter) to do a "spanned-disk" compression of the entire Win95 folder to floppy. Number of floppies depends on the size of the Win95 folder (Win95 was the smallest, subsequent releases of '95 grew each time). You'll need around 15 dependable floppies if you stick with the original Win95 and use a utility to format them to 1.76MB (using something like WinImage); closer to 30 (or more) if you try Win95C on standard 1.44MB format. Quite possibly you may not be able to format to anything other than 1.44MB disks, since some machines can be flakey with other formats. Realize that unless you have lots of spare floppy disks lying around, the cost of new ones could exceed the cost of buying the parallel-port drive case mentioned above (including shipping)... 2. Find a DOS decompression program (PKZip) and copy to HDD. Decompress the '95 backup to an empty temporary folder on the HDD and install from there.

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If you have another computer with a good floppy drive and a CD drive, you don't need a large number of floppy disks. Using the method of installing from a folder on the hard drive you only need enough floppies to copy the largest file. This would be tedious as you have to keep track of the files copied one by one. I don't have a copy of W95 handy, but my Win98SE install folder has 101 files with the 63 largest being 1.7MB and 67 greater than the 1.4MB of a standard floppy. So you could get by with just 2 floppies with file splitting (Maybe just 1 if you use PKZIP with disk spanning.) After doing the previous, I just remembered in the days before CD's, I used two early forms of backup media capable of running from DOS on a floppy disk, floppy tape (CMS/HP Jumbo Tape Drives) and zip disks (IOMEGA). Even earlier, port-to-port file transfer (serial or parallel) (Lap-Link). Actually port-to-port or a more modern form of networking is probably the way to go. Not necessarily fast, but able to copy everything with one command.

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THANKS T-R-A, I forgot to mention that approach. I've recently picked up two old "Backpack" CDROM cases, one complete, and new enough that it's a factory "Backpack" CD burner, and has an adapter included so you can not only use it with parallel port, but USB, too. The older one I found was just a CDROM, but I put a burner into it, as well.

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"around 15 dependable floppies" Well (as already mentioned) the original set was 13 DMF, although the first and last could be 'standard' No need to even consider that route since the thinking behind it is flawed, and there is a functional CD drive of some sort. Another case of the OP wandering off to parts unknown, leaving the various teams of contributers to entertain themselves with academic exercises? (thought so) I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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>>>leaving the various teams of contributers to entertain themselves with academic exercises?<<< It's the most "exercise" most of us get these days.... :)

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jboy, your of course know why this is. Somebody (who is not a regular on ANY forum) experiences some problem or other, and rather than typing "Google.com" and playing with THAT, the person in question "ax's" the question on numerous computer boards, and then of course forgets where they asked it, and forgets what they used for a password. Here we are, musing the numerous possibilites, only to find (maybe) later that some of the given information was wrong to start with.

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Maybe the advice we gave was so bad that the computer exploded, going into orbit with the poster hanging onto it. I'll watch the sky.... DerekW

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