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Re: hard drive reformat - HELP !!!

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From: steve.delve
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 00:00
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first you need to create a bootable floppy disk we'll do it from DOS
window
select start-programs-ms_dos prompt
put a floppy disk in your A: drive and type "format a: /s" and hit
enter.
next and I presume you have a driver disk for your CD-ROM you need to
create an autoexec.bat and a config.sys on the floppy disk that will
load your CD-ROM drivers.

use the notepad or any text editor.

in your config.sys you will need something like :-

DEVICE=A:\epiacd.sys 
device=a:\aspicd.sys /d:aspi_cd


in your autoexec.bat you will need something like:-

A:\corelcdx /d:aspi_cd

you may be able to have this done for you by pressing the F5 key when
windows displays "Starting Windows 95" when you boot your computer
select MS-DOS mode Only

then put your CD-ROM driver disk into A: drive and type A:\install or
A:\setup, this will create autoexec.bat and config.sys for you, copy
them to the bootable floppy disk.

save the files with these names and check that it works and sets up your
CD-ROM

then copy the file format.com onto the floppy disk
which is in the directory C:\windows\command

might not be a bad idea to copy the whole directory onto the floppy,
it should fit.

don't proceed until you can get this far.


then boot from the floppy disk and type "format c:"

then you should be able to install win95 from your CD.


Steve.
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From: steve.delve@cableinet.co.uk
Subject: Re: hard drive reformat - HELP !!!
Date: 1997/09/05
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