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by roseh1550

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I was letting one of my client children, play on the computer. Before we realized what she, was doing they had deleted the windows. I think she may have done this from the Explore. Now my cd-rom drive does not work, and I cannot get into the computer in safe mode, or my MS-DOS. Is there some way for me to render this or what. I cannot use my restore disk with out the cd-rom working. Thank you for your time.

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by shmaltz

Go to a windows 98 machine and click on Start > Settings > Control Panle, Double click add remove programs. Click the tab Start up Disk. Follow on screen instructions. When you boot to the floppy that this created you should now have access to the CD ROM when you arrive at the A: prompt.

by bohicam1

Get a win98 bootdisk. From that, place your win95 cd into the cdrom drive and install win95 again. You will not lose any of the data that you may have on your system. You will however have to reinstall all of your device drivers (vid card, sound).
Good luck!

Mike

by wfs1946

Just a word to the wise. If you boot up with a Windows 98 boot disk, do not format the hard drive with it or Windows 95 cannot see the drive. You get the error message that Windows 95 thinks the drive is and NTFS format.

by roseh1550

No the answer i got did no help for me, and still trying to get this pc going.
Thanks
Rose,

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