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Jim Lafleur wrote:
> 
> 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


The above is sound advice.  It sounds like you didn't install the system
files.  The next time you format a hard drive use this command:

FORMAT C: /S

This will format the drive and install your system files, making the
drive bootable.  Once this is done you will need to install your DOS
cd-rom drivers if you wish to install Win 95 from a cd.
-- 
Cheers  :-)

Bob

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