Win95 Re-load

[grandslammer]

Hi all!

A friend of mine really needs to reload win95. It's been a long time since I fooled with 95, so my question is:

Made a start-up disk for 95. How do I make sure they have cd-rom support so once I format c: we can load from the cd drive? I want to make sure this goes off without many glitvhes, as it's not mine, so I won't have all night to get things straight.

Can I use my win98 startup disk? I know it has a cd-rom support option.

Thanks in advance...

Mike P.

[Dave_H]

You can test the boot disk by booting the system with it, put a cd in the drive,
switching to that drive by typing E:<enter>
(may not be E) then type dir<enter>
If it reads and lists the directory of that cd, your good to go. I have used a W-98 boot disk for win-95(b), with fat32, never tried it for fat16. Note that a win-98 boot disk will create a temporary RAM drive as "D" and push all the other drive letters back one letter, If the CD-Rom was "E", it will be "F" for the install.
Dave


[This message has been edited by Dave_H (edited 02-18-2000).]

[ram]

Hey grandslammer:
I have a floppy that has Cd-rom drivers on it.After you boot with the win95 disk you could then use this and it will install the drivers and Mscdex if you want i can zip it and e-mail it to ya.Drop me a line and let me know.

[Susan]

A WIN95 boot disk needs the startup files along with the file 'mscdex.exe' on it, which gets copied to the C: drive after a fdisk and format.

After the file is copied over, the CD ROM drivers can now be installed from the floppy which is supplied with the drive. It is this software that will create the files autoexec and config onto the HD. Install needs to see mscdex somewhere on the new drive in order to run.

From there, you will be able to access the CD Drive and run setup from there.

There are different versions of FDisk and I have run into problems in the past when trying to access FDisk with a different version that's on floppy. You can use the 98 disk, but down the line when trying to run FDisk again there could be difficulties.

I personally prefer to use the boot disk that goes with the version of WIN 9X that is going to be installed.