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by derado

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Hi all,i was working on a win95 computer,
it gives a message saying KERNEL ERROR,,and that
I must reinstall windows,i dont have a 95 disc,
could this be done from the command prompt,as it
seems to have all the windows stuff.//TIA ;>

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by traversetek

If, by "all the Windows stuff," you mean that the cab files are on the hard disk (look for C:\Windows\options\cabs), then you may be able to recover from this. Visit the Microsoft Knowlege Base (support.microsoft.com) and do a search for article Q146419. It will walk you through the steps to extract what you need from the cab files. Best of luck :-)

by bradz26

if it has all the .CAB files (cabinet) then windows setup should be there. since you own the OS, you also bought rights to the install software. so where is the CD? if you bought it like this, with windows, you own that image and can re-install ifthis happens. but if you can get to a windows setup screen, possibly in control panel, point it to the .cab files that should be labelled disk1, disk2... or find the path to the cabs and open an msdos prompt, type setup, enter. its a good idea towrite down what you have in the start/program menu, cause youll have to re-link those later so they appear in your windows menu. otherwise windows will be there but wont know about any other software.
the best way to do this win95 install is to erase the whole disk and write 0's over everything, then install fresh; but if you use .cab files youre not erasing what was there.

thats a potential security hazard, the files from before will be untouched, their headers will remain, but flagged 'erased'

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