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George <sing.loon@uq.net.au> wrote in message
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> I have big problem - my computer running Windows 95osr 2
> version B crashed and on restart the auto scan disk ran -
> I deleted some messed up files and actually they were important.

> Then when I went into Win95 I connected to the internet and then tried to
> open a Netscape browser 4.5 and the message came up with 'can not find
> wsock.dll'  Then it said I should restart my computer - that  I did , then
the
> computer came up with a message saying that 2 files were deleted

> 1. Javasup .. something and
> 2. ndis.drv or something

> It then said can not find or load mouse.drv and that my system.ini points
to it.

> It then said reinstall windows...

> Problem I now only have Windows 95 original and no version 2.

> Also I can not reformat to erase all data on my harddrive
> since I have important study, work and recent web site
> files that have not yet been backed up.

> What can I do, I am using my handheld pc to write
> this email as the only email device I have left.

> Can I buy a new harddrive format that with a new purchased Win 95 Osr 2
> and get the computer up and running and then install my old harddrive as a
> primary slave drive and then copy over my important data?

Yes. It would be safest to do the install with the original drive not even
plugged into the system, get the new Win9x up and working well and then
put the original drive back in as a slave and copy off the stuff that
matters.

You might want to consider Win98 instead of OSR2, it will do that
just as well, and has some useful enhancements over OSR2 too.

> If I did a reinstall with a reformat will all my files be there?

Not sure what you mean here, whether you are asking about say just
buying a copy of OSR2 without a new hard drive, using that to install
over the current hard drive. You certainly dont want to do a reformat
in that situation, that will certainly lose the data you want to keep.

You want to bear in mind that you may well have a problem
with the original hard drive, the one that caused the original
crash. Corse it could be somewhere other than the hard drive too.

Certainly the safest thing for your data is to buy a new hard drive
and a FAT32 capable version of Win9x and attempt a clean install
on the new drive with the original drive removed, and make sure
that that is all working well before you put the original drive back
in the system to copy the data off that is important.

And important to be very careful, you dont get many chances.

> I have a start up disk for this computer that I created
> along time ago for this computer.  Is this of any use?

Depends on how long ago. If it was before the OSR2
install, no real use if the drive is formatted FAT32.

And even if you can boot off the floppy and see the hard drive,
its taking a lot more risk with your data when you dont know what
caused the original failure. Only you can say how important that data is.

A decent sized drive only costs a coupla hundred bucks, and you can always
sell it once you have got the original back if you really need the money.

> I only have a Iomega zip disk version of Win 95 OSR 2 can this
> be used with the Guest driver and ms-dos drivers for my zip drive?

Again, some of that stuff is feasible, but at considerable risk to the data
you want.

> If I can extract a mouse.drv from a cab file on
> my zip disk version - in which cab file is it in?

The problem is much more serious than that.