Boot up problems

[ILC]

Alright hears the deal......Deleted my entire hard drive in the old computer....went to install a newer version of win 95, but it wont boot up at all. It begins to read the floppy but then stops and doesnt do anything! Whats wrong with it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Nathan G]

Bad boot disk maybe?? You sure that floppy is bootable?

[Axel]

There are several things that might be going on -
so it reads, or attempts to read the floppy drive - do you simply see the drive light come on, or do you hear the drive itself?

Might be a bad boot floppy.

Next question is, when you made the boot floppy, did you also copy over the files you'd need to run the CD-ROM? - You'll need the DOS driver for the drive along with the MSCDEX files to run it. Chances are, your CD-ROM drive might have come with a driver floppy with a readme file on it that will tell you how to write the autoexec.bat and config.sys line commands to activate the CD-ROM.

There are locations on the net that you can download a boot floppy with generic CD-ROM drivers on it so you can do your install. I don't know the URL's myself, but they have been posted on this board before. After figuring out what kind of CD-ROM drive you have, you can probably either go to their site or to the MicroSoft site and find a download of a boot floppy.

If that doesn't help, give us a much better description of your system and we'll try to help from there.

[ILC]

Thanks guys...Ill try all of those.

[Euthorus]

I had that happen before - read the post from Nathan, you will need a working version of Win95 to make another Start-up disk.

[ILC]

Got it to work. Thanks all!