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larry - 10 Oct 2004 14:20 GMT

i am trying to locate windows 95 on 3.5 diskett.
i need these disks so i can reinstall windows on a
computer that does not have a cd rom .I have a windows 95
cd with cert #s is there anyway to copy the disk on to
3.5 disks.

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Jon_Hildrum - 10 Oct 2004 14:56 GMT

You can try ebay.

Here are some instructions for generating your own floppy disk set from the
CD -Compliments of Ron Badour (use someone elses computer with a CD drive)
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w95_floppies.html

Buy a CD drive. They are pretty cheap these days

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> i am trying to locate windows 95 on 3.5 diskett.
> i need these disks so i can reinstall windows on a
> computer that does not have a cd rom .I have a windows 95
> cd with cert #s is there anyway to copy the disk on to
> 3.5 disks.

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Ron - 24 Nov 2004 14:13 GMT

Have you considered just purchasing a CD-ROM drive [a used one can be
obtained for as little as $5] and installing it as a "Slave" on the IDE cable
from the motherboard/controller card that supports your HD? Then you could
simply use your Windows 95 CD to load your operating system.

You will need to use a boot/startup disk with a CD driver, but that is easy
to obtain/configure. You could go to "bootdisk.com." for example. A boot
disk for Windows 98 should probably do the trick. I just did this on a
386/486 computer and it works.

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Daniel Tso - 26 Nov 2004 15:53 GMT

>> i am trying to locate windows 95 on 3.5 diskett.
>> i need these disks so i can reinstall windows on a
>> computer that does not have a cd rom .I have a windows 95
>> cd with cert #s is there anyway to copy the disk on to
>> 3.5 disks.

Take the hard disk out and stick it in another machine that has a CDROM drive.
Alternatively use Laplink or similar communications program (that one uses a
cable between printer ports), to transfer the needed files off the CD. As a
last resort, transfer the files a few at a time by copying onto a floppy.

In any case, after making sure you have enough freespace (e.g. 300Mb+,
preferably after reformatting the disk), then create C:\WIN95 on the disk
and transfer all the files on the CD from \WIN95 into C:\WIN95.

Then run SETUP.EXE from C:\WIN95. Be sure you have set C: to be active
and have a good MBR on it (both are done with FDISK).

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