I tried to reformat an older computer that had been upgraded to more memory and a CD burner installed. I also had upgraded the OS to ME. After I reformatted, (just to clear out a lot of old stuff),(I reformatted with the orginal 95 disks that came with the computer) it won't boot up and comes up with the following messages. "Invalid setting in the MSDOS.SYS files: Winver+4.90.3000 Warning: the system configuration manager failed to run. Some of your real-mode device drivers may not initialize properly. The following file is missing or corrupted: COMMAND.COM Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g. C:Windows\command.com I tried that phrase and it didn't work. I am at a loss of what to type in. I tried reformatting again and I tried running Norton's restore disks and get the same message everytime.

Boot the machine with a bootdisk for the O/S which you are going to install. 95 has three flavours. You can get a bootdisk here. Download this bootdisk image file to a working system and run the file to create the bootdisk on one of your floppy disks. It's a good day when you learn something

Doesn't seem like the format 'took' and you've somehow overlaid Win95 into your ME installation Since you mention diskettes, very likely an early version of 95, which isn't compatible with FAT32 (assuming the HDD is larger than 2Gb) If that's the case, time to repartition with (Win95) fdisk, format & reinstall We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

Friend 1: I tried the boot disk and it seems to want to work, but stops in the middle and says A:| I put in the 95b disk and nothing will happen. Friend 2. It was a 1997 computer. I have three others and this was still close to the best which is why I wanted it for an online computer. I didn't mean diskettes. I reformatted with the orginal CD's, but tried the boot diskettes from bootdisk.com You lost me with the repartion and the fdisk. Is this something I would have as I have all of the orginal stuff. or something I need to get?

'friend 1' & 'friend 2'? That's just... charmingly eccentric (I suppose) "It was a 1997 computer. I have three others" Well, that's great, but not terribly relevant Yes, fdisk is on a normal bootdisk - as mentioned, there are several versions of Windows 95, it can be useful to know just which one you're attempting to install (the bootdisk should be of the same version) "You lost me" Somewhat mutual at this point - if you'd reformatted successfully, there would have been no trace of the former OS (WinME) We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

Perhaps these guides will prove helpful We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true

Thanks for all of the help. I still haven't solved the problem, but will go through the site that you just sent and have another go at it. I don't really know the 95 version-a or b. Nothing I have tells me that. It still says that I need a "Windows Command interpreter". The boot disks just stop after about a half a screen of info. I tried both the 95a and the 95b.