Win95 installation diskettes

If Windows 95 was preinstalled on your computer, there may be Windows\Options
and Windows\Options\Cabs folders on the hard disk. The files in these folders
serve the following purposes:

- If you did not receive a Windows 95 CD-ROM with your computer, these files
are used by the Create System Disks program to create a floppy- disk backup
of the Windows 95 installation disks, should you need to reinstall Windows 95
in the future.

Why does he need the disk's? If he does not have a cdrom drive they are too cheap to pass up now. The floppy disk's go bad too quick and are hard to keep track of. It's vary easy to install a cdrom and use it.

They can be, but it takes a great deal of persistence and work. You will also need to dig up an old utility to make "specialized disks" -- the utility is called make17.exe (and it's purpose was to format a 1.44 MB floppy into a 1.7 MB floppy). Many of the Win95 cabinet files (and in fact the Win98 cabinet files on 98 and 98SE the cd-rom) will only fit on one of these specialized diskettes.

And yes, answerer #2 is also correct. Because of the specialized formatting, these diskettes tend to fail a bit easier than even their regularly formatted counterparts.

Being part of a public library system (many years ago), meant using 386's and 486's without cd-roms and sometimes having 1 or more of these Win95 floppies go bad after awhile.I maintained several sets of spares, and was extremely happier when tape backup and then cd-r was an option.

It will take a lot of work and time. I agree with the other 2 answer, but anyway,
Build a boot disk, there is a folder called Win95 on your cd, go there, copy all the files but the CAB files.
Then copy each .CAB file into a floppy, it will allow only one .CAB file per floppy.
and that's it.
Give it a try, it will work.
@lberto

If it's truely necessary to make 20 of these...I would suggest just going to www.bootdisk.com and download one of the archives there. To me, just running the the exe and making sure there's a blank in the drive is quicker then running through the countrol panel to make them.

Good luck to you

Mark

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