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maria - 08 Feb 2004 04:35 GMT

oboy, I formated my puter i have backup and win95 cd, but
it wont install it back in, it searches for past windows
and cant find any. and then it exits me back to my R
drive, what gives. my c drive is compressed so is there a
differnt trick then to reinstall...please help

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Alan Edwards - 08 Feb 2004 04:55 GMT

Give it the media for past windows when it asks for it as I assume you
have an upgrade version.
I created a blank file win.cn_ on a floppy to save me the bother of
getting out the Win3.1 disk1.

...Alan

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In microsoft.public.win95.setup, "maria"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>oboy, I formated my puter i have backup and win95 cd, but
>it wont install it back in, it searches for past windows
>and cant find any. and then it exits me back to my R
>drive, what gives. my c drive is compressed so is there a
>differnt trick then to reinstall...please help

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 08 Feb 2004 05:05 GMT

ooooh so it wants windows 3.1 to load windows95 back in

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maria - 08 Feb 2004 05:35 GMT

ty Allen i just reinstalled windows thaks a bunch it
worked

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