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Windows Forum / Windows 95 / May 2004stuck w/o cd-rom
i am trying to uninstall reinstall win 95 on a friends cpu. i created a floppy boot disk then rebooted. now i'm stuck at "OS load in progress..." of course my friend neglected to provide the cd-rom i just assumed she had it. oops. can i recover from this? i can't seem to find a 95 disk anywhere even to buy. thanks for any help anyone could provide. >-----Original Message----- >i am trying to uninstall reinstall win 95 on a friends [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >. >ok...i have now booted and i'm at the a: prompt. is there a way to recover the os without the cd-rom here? or should i just go ahead and reformat?? > i am trying to uninstall reinstall win 95 on a friends > cpu. i created a floppy boot disk then rebooted. now [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > find a 95 disk anywhere even to buy. thanks for any help > anyone could provide. You can buy Windows 95 on ebay (and probably other online locations as well). Don't get an upgrade and make sure they include the Product ID/Key. Create a boot floppy using an appropriate utility from www.bootdisk.com. >-----Original Message----- >i am trying to uninstall reinstall win 95 on a friends [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >anyone could provide. >erwizard - first of all, you don't install an O.S. on a CPU - you install it on a hard drive. Next, use the boot disk to get to the A prompt where you can do a "format C:" operation to clear the hard drive. But don't even do this until you have located a win95 system disk. Go to a computer repair shop and maybe they will loan you one. Bottom line: clear the hard drive; format it, and do a new install with a w95 system disk using the boot disk. Simple! On Fri, 28 May 2004 18:54:47 -0700, "jeno1" >>i am trying to uninstall reinstall win 95 on a friends >>cpu. i created a floppy boot disk then rebooted. now >>i'm stuck at "OS load in progress..." of course my >>friend neglected to provide the cd-rom i just assumed >>she had it. oops. can i recover from this? i can't seem >>to find a 95 disk anywhere even to buy. >Bottom line: clear the hard drive; format it, and do a >new install with a w95 system disk using the boot disk. >Simple! Not simple enough for this dude; he's already screwed up by starting a destructive process without bothering to check he has what he needs. Frankly I would discourage him from proceeding any further, especially as it is not his own PC he's messing up. To rebuild a Win95 installation effectively, you need: - a working, effective, correct-version boot diskette - the correct-version Win95 CD and product code - pre-installation archive of IE 5.5 SP2 - Win95 device drivers for all the PC's hardware - enough clue to see the process through When the last is absent, then you also have to ask yourself whether the reasons to "just wipe and re-install" are sound - they prolly are not. You may be moving from a troubled PC that should be troubleshot (hardware diags, formal virus scan etc.) to an unbootable mess. See http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/bthink.htm for starters! >------------------------------------ ---- --- -- - - - - "For every complex question, there's a simple answer - and it's wrong." H.L. Mencken >------------------------------------ ---- --- -- - - - - |
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