Operating System

That may be a question better answered by your manufacturer of your PC or laptop. I am assuming the recovery discs are in CD form, or a combination of a bootable CD and or floppy disk? Often the manufacturers have some sort of image file all setup on the CD they sent you, and they want you to perform your recovery with all the software that was originally intended to be on that machine for retail sale.

Vist the web site of your computer manufacturer, or get on the phone with them (hopefully toll-free) and ask if it is possible to perform a base OS recovery of your system. There just may be a modifier switch that will let you restore your machine this way.

Best of luck!

Paul M. Chavez

ERU (Emergency Repair Utility) is hidden and isn't always installed on Windows, but it is on the Windows installation disk. Microsoft hides it because it considers this feature to be for tech-support people only.

More advanced computer users may want to install ERU -- it's only found on your Windows 95 installation CD.

Go to the Windows 95 CD directory named Other/Misc.

Drag and copy the folder named ERU to your Drive C:/ (or other hard drive of choice).

Double-click the new ERU folder on your hard drive.

In the ERU directory, locate the file ERU.inf.

Right-click on the ERU.inf file.

Click install on the menu that pops up.

See this link for more information on Emergency Repair Disks:

http://www.yummyboyjaybird.homestead.com/files/Recover_Disks_and_Boots_Disks_Explained.html

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Depending on the manufacturer of your computer, the process may be different, but will be similar. A visit to the manufacturer's web site, and a query of "Emergency Repair Disks" (or something similar) should also provide some useful information, and perhaps additional downloads to aid in the process.

Good luck,

Maxwell

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