um, well, I applied the service pack (6.0a) and during it's install it barked about shell32.dll not being copied correctly, and I, being a complete fool, just skipped the file. when I rebooted, it stoped, and said something about shell32 being a ' bad image ' and said something about a cheaksum error. I went to repair NT, first phase of setup went smoothly, but when the second phase started, and i selected ' repair ', it stoped, and refused to continue, because it did not detect a cd-rom drive. I do not want to do a complete re-install, but I do not know how to dig my way out of this one. please help this damned fool. oh, btw: it also has a copy of the 95b boot files, with a copy of ms client 3, all installed, and bootable from the boot menu @ startup. the partition is a fat16, and both 95, and nt, are installed on it.

Moin, check your hotmail account, please. mfg, Carl.

thanks Carl. sp6i386 with the /x parameter does not like w95 dos mode. so, i used winzip, and like you said to, i extracted the file to the floppy disk, and then overwrote the shell32.dll file in \winnt\system32 with it. works now thank you.