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Thread ID: 62365 2005-10-05 06:05:00 I CAN'T REINSTALL WINDOWS 95!?! matthewkeelty (9017) Press F1
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393559 2005-10-05 06:05:00 Well, I have this old 100mHz Windows 95 given to me by my grandparents, and i decided to format the hard drive and reinstall 95. The format went ok, but when i put the 95 disc in it didn't work so i installed MS-DOS 5.0 with the floppys which worked fine and so did 3.1 but both of them can't access CD Drives so I'm stuck with this even worse Windows 3.1 piece of rubbish. How do i get 95 installed again? matthewkeelty (9017)
393560 2005-10-05 06:16:00 If you have the original Windows 95 CD you shold be able to boot the PC with it in the drive.

Set your CD drive to be the 1st boot device and that should give you a Windows 95 boot menu with the following options:


1) Boot from Windows 95 CD Rom
2) Boot from Hard disk drive


If you choose 1) then you should get a 2nd menu which says:


1)Start computer with CD Rom support
2) Start computer without CD Rom support


Well at least I think so...

cheers

chiefnz
chiefnz (545)
393561 2005-10-05 06:16:00 Do a search in here for amd against Intel.

This topic has already been discussed to death in here.

Try a bootdisk from here http://www.bootdisk.com
Speedy Gonzales (78)
393562 2005-10-05 06:18:00 Why bother using outdated Windows 95 at all? Go for Linux :thumbs:

Cheers :)

P . S . Please do not shout at us next time :rolleyes:
Renmoo (66)
393563 2005-10-05 06:18:00 Just adding to Speedy, the boot disk requires to have CDROM support.
A Win 95 CD DOES NOT BOOT.
Terry Porritt (14)
393564 2005-10-05 07:45:00 Just adding to Speedy, the boot disk requires to have CDROM support.
A Win 95 CD DOES NOT BOOT.

right - you need a win 95 floppy bootup disk which should have the cdrom drives needed.
quarry (252)
393565 2005-10-05 09:21:00 Make a DOS boot disk. It will need an atapi driver for the CD drive.
Or better yet, download one. It will already have what you need.

I'd put 98 on it....
But DOS is cool.
pctek (84)
393566 2005-10-05 14:55:00 Does anyone know what the installed size of 95 is once it's on the hard drive?

I found a really old 333 mhz W95 puter too, and it only has a 1gig drive . Just wondering if W98SE will actually fit .

:confused:
SurferJoe46 (51)
393567 2005-10-05 17:34:00 cant remember the installed size of win95 but I do know itll vary quite a bit depending on what version you are installing there were three versions a,b,c obiously a was smaller than b which was smaller than c etc.......anyway 98se will easily fit on a 1gb drive.......it's install size is approx 250mb from memory drcspy (146)
393568 2005-10-05 19:13:00 Does anyone know what the installed size of 95 is once it's on the hard drive?

I found a really old 333 mhz W95 puter too, and it only has a 1gig drive . Just wondering if W98SE will actually fit .

:confused:
Win95 - Roughly 22mb .
pctek (84)
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