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I always do a complete reinstall if/when Win 95 or 98 starts playing
silly buggars.  If you do a fresh install with a re-format, then you
are going to lose all exisitng data on the reformatted
drive/partition.

I would suggenst that you boot up you machine in either safe mode,
i.e. hit the F8 key just before Win 95 starts loading and choose safe
mode.  If this doesn't work, then boot up in Dos mode, again this can
be chosen from the F8 menu before Win 95 starts to load.  if this
doesn't worj then try booting from your resue disk that you say you
have.  

Once you have access to the data on your drive, then you should backup
every data file that you cannot bear to lose.  I suggest a backup of
the My Documents folder.  Copy the favourites folder to preserve your
browser bookmarks.  Take a wander through you Program Files folder to
see what apps are there, and where they may store their data files and
back those up too.

Once you are sure you can stand losing the remaining data on the C
drive, then you can either attempt to re-install windows over the
exisitng windows setup, (make sure you choose to replace any newer
files on your drive with the older ones on your Win 95 install media).
You may get lucky and get back a reasonably stable system and most of
you old apps will function as if nothing happened, and there is
nothing more to do

However, if this produces a system that is not as stable as you would
like, then give the system a good clean out.  Reformat the drive and
do a clean install.  Reinstall the apps and then replace the backed up
files and folders and whoilla, you should have you system back.

Hope this helps.

P.S Make sure you backup your email and news data files.  I hate
loasing all my email.
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Stephen Anderson
Intellectual Property Advisor
BHP
Melbourne Australia