I run 2 pcs - one amd 1.6 with XP. The other is an old 166 with win 95 which i basically use for the net. And yes tonight I totally wiped the hard disk on the old pc. Trouble is i don't have a boot disk, I have win 95 CD and Setup boot disk but have lost the serial no and I don't know how to get the pc to recognise the D: drive.
Hellllp
Alasdair
I know I'm dense

 

You should be able to get a Win95 bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com

 

No joy with this mate. Keeps telling me i cannot run this in DOS mode.
Basically on my c drive at present I have no files at all, Cd rom is not recognised and when I put mywin 95 setup floppy into pc it comes up with message reading floppy drive then just shows A prompt.
Any ideas apart from throwing in the skip?
Alasdair

 

You need a bootdisk with CD-ROM device drivers on. You should be able to get one from http://www.bootdisk.com

Once you've booted from the floppy, change to your CD drive:

c:\>d:

And then from there...
D:\>setup.exe

and away you go! But did you say you haven't got the Win95 serial no?

Ian

 

11 89 7 00 21 90 2 87 87 2

 

thanks guys.
What a pain all that was. Still trying to get it to reconise my cd but all else looks ok
alasdair

 

what make is the pc ?? as with the age of it there is a remote possibility that the cdrom might be running off the soundcard if it is then a standard bootdisk might not work as its a proprietary interface

 

all working now. Only thing is the a: (floppy) drive keeps chattering away although there is nothing in it.
Think I'll through the thing in the sea.
Alasdair