win95 re-installation trouble

[Guest]

help needed to re instal windows 95. When I went to instal windows again, it said that there were newer files that were already on the computer and asked if they should be kept (yes, or no to all). I said yes to all the newer files however after installation procedure the computer rebooted with troubles coming up in dos. My quess is that I must have intalled win95 a when I had 95b on the computer allready. I am now stuck at the dos prompt unable to acess the rom drive and my bootdisks I 've made arn't helping.

What do I do to install windows in dos (get cdrom working)

help appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Easiest is to find a friend that has a Win98 startdiskette handy. You can use that or make a new one on his/hers Computer. It has generic driver for the IDE-CD
Otherwize you can ad the support yourself. it is often described how to do this in the CD-drive manual. It involves
adding a line to Autoexec.bat adding the driversupport and adding a few driverfiles to C that was supplied on diskette
i you where lucky! Mostly these drivers are not supplied with new CD:s though - I suspect many or most CD-drivers will work.

 

[scarecrow]

If you were trying to re-install then you need
to format the HD before you go ahead with the install.
A question, Why don't you get a 98 SE disk and install that.

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[Guest]

I would recommend to keep install files (for win95,98,ME) on harddrive. (Win95/Win98/... directory from CD)
1. it is faster to install (CD is much slower than HDD)
2. it's allways awailable (every little change you make in Windows, it does not ask for CD)
3. In cases like that, its easier to solve missing CD-ROM drivers for DOS

In your case you need WIN98 startup disk or DOS drivers for CD-ROM, note that most of the drivers work on common CD-ROM drive, so it does not have to be specific...



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