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win95 wont copy CD's content?

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by tyharo

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Ive gone back to trying to reinstall windows 95 on my laptop (single core @ 1.5 GHz, 512mb ram, and and intel gpu). When trying to setup the hdd before installing, i used a boot CD and used it to format my old partition and then proceeded to create a folder on the C drive to hold all of the CD's content. My problem is that im not able to copy all the content. when i type "copy r:\ it only copies 2 files the readme.txt and the setup.exe" to copy the files to c:\win95 (I am in this directory when I enter the copy command). How or what do I need to type so that all the content of the windows 95 setup CD are copied to the main drive (C drive) into the win95 folder I created?

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by cmiller5400

Try the xcopy command.

Something like xcopy *.* c:\win95 /s /h

by tyharo

No luck although I do believe I have to use the xcopy but im not sure what after that, Ive been messing around with it but no luck yet.

by slayer_

Use a bootable USB of a linux system, and use that to create your fat32 partition on the drive and copy over the files.

by tyharo

Thanks that worked. I'm surprised I didn't think of that earlier. I did it the other way around though, I booted from a live disk and had the CD files copied to a flash drive and then just copied them to the main drive. I'm hoping for no more problems.

by thechas

To copy all files with the copy command, you need to use *.* in the command line. It will also work better to copy from the CD rather than to the hard drive.
cd r:
copy *.* C:\win95

What I don't remember is if the basic copy command will create a copy any folders. That is where using xcopy helps.

Here is details of the syntax and all of the switches for the xcopy command.

http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm

Chas

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