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Win 95 not booting.

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by shanghai sam

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I have a PC running Windows 95, that show message: Invalid system disc....etc, when booting. I know that sometimes this can be fixed by using a booting floppy disc and them typing from A: Sys c: (Enter) and that I did it, but...happen that the booting disc I used was from another Windows 95 version and all I obtain is a C: prompt, and when try to boot, the PC show message: incorrect MS DOS version.
The question is:
What can I do now?, Is any way to go back and try another method, for example, pressing F8 and try to boot in Save Mode?, Somebody can give me an idea?
Thanks anyway.

Julio
PD: Sorry by my english

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by dmiles

The startup disk is the key,you could try installing in another machine as a slave and try accessing the drive which then you could possible try to troubleshoot the drive to see if it is going bad or try to backup the data.

by thechas

You could try running sys from a correct version boot disk.

There are 3 major versions of W95.
The original release. All retail upgrades are original versions.
SR-1 also known as 95 "B" or release 2.1 The majority of "OEM" installations are this version.
SR-2 also known as 95 "C" or release 2.5 This was the last version of 95 and included FAT32 and USB support.

You can download any version from www.bootdisk.com

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