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tanman wrote:

> Since my wife will be out of town until Mon, I decided to fool around
> with her computer and install win95 so I could play with it instead of
> using my system.  Well all hell broke loose and I had to uninstall it.
> All of a sudden the computer would not boot into the C Drive.  So being
> a nitwit, I reformated the C drive hoping this would do the trick.  But
> it still will not boot up in C.  I have to use a Emergency disk in the
> Adrive to boot up.
>
> Then after I get the dos prompt in A, I cd to C and do a check on the C
> drive using different utilities which shows the c drive is there and no
> errors on it.  I used MSD, Norton, and PC Tools and they all show the C
> drive is there and formated to 450 megs and everything in order.
>
> However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and
> power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1 fixed
> HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should, but
> then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the
> upper left of the screen.  I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the
> emergency disk and then it works.
>
> Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this
> system working again.  All info would be appreciated.  I.   I will be
> monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable
> person can get me out of this fix.
>
> Thanks in advance.  Don

This is a software problem, no big problem, try this:
1) the emergency disk sounds like a win95 not win3.x
2) you need to add system files to c: drive
3) put your emergency rescue disk in a:
4) at prompt type sys c:
5) then reinstall win95