What dos commands to use

Marie

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Mar 1, 2003, 5:01:34 PM3/1/03

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I would like to install windows 95 on a old computer I
went and bought the disk and CD, but have no idea and the
store won't help me unless I pay them 65.00 more dollars
for them to do it. I have a CD-Rom boot disk & Disc but
when I go to the A drive which is my floppy I get the
command prompt and I don't no how to format it or deltree
or anything, this computer had to Directory it has a C and
D I don't know what the CD Player is I think E, but it
also has a Zip drive or a bigger floppy disk drive than
the standard floppy, if someone can help I would be so
happy so my 8 year old can get off my computer.
Thanks

Bill Starbuck

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Mar 1, 2003, 5:37:10 PM3/1/03

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>I have a CD-Rom boot disk & Disc but
>when I go to the A drive which is my floppy I get the
>command prompt and I don't no how to format it

After booting the computer with the bootdisk in drive A:, enter the
command "dir". This will list the files on the floppy disk. Verify
that the bootdisk includes programs named FDisk and Format.

Next, enter the command "fdisk". THis will run the FDisk program. If
the harddisk is smaller than 2 GB the tell FDisk to create one primary
partition. If the harddisk is larger than 2 GB, tell FDisk to create
two partitions (a primary and a secondary). Make the primary partition
2 GB and the secondary one = the remainder of the harddisk.

Restart the system with the bootdisk still in drive A: and enter the
command
format c: /s
This will format the C: drive and make it bootable. Next, if you
created two partitions, enter the command
format d:
This will format the D: drive, which is the second partition.

You should now be able to boot the computer without the bootdisk in
drive A:. That is, drive C: should be bootable.

Now add your CD-ROM driver to the C: drive. You will have to use a
second computer to do some of the following.

The CD-ROM driver will normally have a name with the letters CD in it
and it will have the extension .SYS. One way to get a CD-ROM driver is
to run the installation program that came with the CD-ROM. Also, you
can usually get a driver from the web site of the company that made
the CD-ROM.

Using Notepad or any word processor, make a text file, name it
CONFIG.SYS and copy it onto the C: drive. This file should look like
this, but with the name of your CD-ROM driver in place of
CDDRIVER.SYS:

DEVICE=CDDRIVER.SYS /D:MSCD000
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS

Add a copy of MSCDEX.EXE to the C: drive. You can get MSCDEX from the
folder C:\Windows/Command on another system that has Windows 95.

Using Notepad or any word processor, make a text file, name it
AUTOEXEC.BAT and add it to the C: drive. It should look like this:
MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000

Reboot the computer from drive C:. The computer should be able top
access the CD-ROM. Insert the Windows CD-ROM and run the program
"setup".

Bill Starbuck (MVP)

Marie

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Mar 1, 2003, 7:44:20 PM3/1/03

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so do I answer this with a N or Y I don't understand it
had the C drive and someone added another drive.

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Jeff Richards

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Mar 1, 2003, 10:50:54 PM3/1/03

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If by 'it' you mean the FDISK question about large hard drive support, then
if you don't know whether the drive is larger than 2Gb or not you can safely
answer Y
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

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