Making a Win95 system disk.

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Post #5,275 by acagle 8/15/01 12:04:26 PM Reply	Making a Win95 system disk. How doth one go about making a Win95 boot disk that will recognize a CD drive? I need to install Win95 to a blank partition but the Win95 installation CD isn't bootable.
Post #5,279 by andread 8/15/01 12:12:41 PM Reply	Re: Making a Win95 system disk. two methods: 1) (harder than 2) set up an autoexec.bat and config.sys file on your boot floppy that have the DOS drivers for your CD (if you can find them) 2) use a Win98 startup disk and start w/ CD support and then put in Win95 CD and run setup A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|http://wxxe.org]
Post #5,281 by DonRichards 8/15/01 12:30:17 PM Reply	try here First make a bootable floppy (format with system files) then try this spot and copy the "[link\|http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cyrix/1307/trouble.html\|"ultimate boot floppy"] "When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead. It's given me the strangest collection of hats"
Post #5,282 by acagle 8/15/01 12:41:44 PM Reply	Re: try here That looks exceptionally groovy. </Austin Powers> I'll try it when I gets home. Thanks.

Making a Win95 system disk. - (acagle) - (3) - Aug. 15, 2001, 12:04:26 PM EDT

Re: Making a Win95 system disk. - (andread) - Aug. 15, 2001, 12:12:41 PM EDT

try here - (DonRichards) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2001, 12:30:17 PM EDT

Re: try here - (acagle) - Aug. 15, 2001, 12:41:44 PM EDT

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