Hi, I'm trying to fix an old computer i have and got hold of windows95 (the 30 disk version) so i reformatted the hdd and started the installation, everything was going alright until i get to disk 3 and the bit where you have to select the type of installation (typical,custom and so on....).A box comes up saying "setup cannot read the windows 95 setup disk. Make sure the disk is inserted in the drive and the drive door is closed". So could it be a faulty disk causing the problem or somthing else? if it is a faulty disk is there somewhere i can get just the 3rd disk?

Certainly sound like a dodgy disk. Try copying it to a newly formatted floppy using someone elses machine. Right click the A drive and use "Copy Disk". It might just help, I've known border line floppies work in another drive. Derek.W

Thanx for the reply. I made a copy and it still does the same thing. any other ideas? :-(

I don't have any experience with Win95 on floppies but MS office Pro 4.3, which is from the same era, had a couple of quirks. The first couple of disks had to be write enabled to install. MS then wrote the info from the install screens to one of those disks, can't recall which at the moment. So you may need to write enable the disks. Also, I believe that the format was 1.72MB instead of 1.44MB on the first couple of disks. There were programs to format at those sizes. Probably still available.

Post back the date and size of the file(s) listed on the disk. I have the 13 disk upgrade version as well as several different 95 cds. If I can find an exact match I'll send you the files.

Check your email. I have 3 different versions of Win95 on floppies...13, 21, and 30 disk versions. I sent the 30-disk version of Disk 3. HTH Dave If a Man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Othehill: I tryed takeing the write protect of all of them and it still didnt work. i was doing a search and found alot of people said the same thing about the disk being formated different. Do you know where i can find the program to do it? DAVEINCAPS: the date on all the files on the 3rd disk are 11 july 1995 and the name and sizes are Name----------------Size access.cpl----------56.0kb access.hlp----------34.1kb accstat.exe---------24.0kb attrib.exe----------14.8kb chkdsk.exe----------26.6kb clipbook.cnt--------440bytes clipbrd.cnt---------411bytes debug.exe-----------20.0kb edit.com------------68.2kb enable2.vxd---------24.5kb enable3.dll---------6.01kb enable4.vxd---------21.1kb enable.vxd----------42.1kb fdisk.exe-----------57.7kb format.com----------39.1kb hticons.dll---------20.0kb hypertrm.cnt--------910bytes hypertrm.dll--------318kb mfc30.dll-----------315kb mfcd30.dll----------54.5kb mfcn30.dll----------15.5kb mfco30.dll----------130kb mspaint.cnt---------1.93kb mspcx32.dll---------31.5kb msvcrt20.dll--------222kb packager.cnt--------940bytes regedit.exe---------117kb scandisk.ini--------7.09kb sys.com-------------12.9kb uninstal.exe--------74.7kb