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refromating harddrive windows 95

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by trigler

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I can reformat the hard drive but I cheked if I could get my cd to come up in dos and it comes up invalid drive how can I get windows 95 back in if I can not get it from the cd to the drive ??. Ps I did have a new drive put in the old drive quite.

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by hinrgman

You need a win95 boot disk(floppy) with cd rom support. That will boot your system and load the driver for your cd rom so you can continue to load windows. That disk should have come with your software package.

by thechas

The standard W95 "boot" disk does not include CD support. The "Startup" disk that came with the OS does have CD support.
You can download various boot disk files from www.bootdisk.com

Chas

by gilesguthrie

You should be able to change the boot order in the system BIOS. Enter the BIOS when the system starts up, and if the system is four years old or less, you should see an item "Boot" in the menu bar. Select it, and change the order to the following:
CD-ROM drive
Hard Disk
Removeable Device

Then the machine should boot from the CD, assuming it's release B or higher of Win95.

by bcdowning

The easiest way to do it is get a copy of a Win98 boot disk, either borrow one or create one from www.bootdisk.com. When you boot up with the Win98 disk, 3 options come up, one to install Win98, one to run the computer with CD Rom support and one to run the computer without a CD Rom. Choose option 2, to run the computer with CD Rom support, and the boot disk will detect the CD Rom. Choose D Drive, Win95 and run Setup.exe and all will run smooth.

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