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Let's make a BOOTDISK
Friday, October 10, 2003 at 12:11 am
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Posted by Jerry (875 messages posted)


Hi Craig:

First, were going to make a BOOTDISK. You will need access to a working computer with an Internet connection, and a blank 1.44MB floppy disk. Go to this site:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
and download the file for the version of Windows95 you want to install. Do not put the downloaded file on the floppy disk. Your downloaded file will be either BOOT95A.EXE or BOOT95B.EXE, and you can put it on the Desktop, or any other convenient place on your friend's computer. (You can delete it later).

Put your blank floppy disk in your friend's computer, and double-click on the downloaded file you put on the Desktop. This will make a BOOTDISK out of your blank floppy disk.

Now, put the BOOTDISK in the broken computer while the power is OFF, then turn on the power. Watch the screen -- stuff will fly by. It should stop at "A:\>", and if you look back UP a few lines, you should see the word "BANANA".

If all this works, chances are your CDROM does too. It will be drive "R:".

You should be able to put your Windows installation CD in the CDROM drive, and type "R:\SETUP", and press enter. The Windows installation should begin.

If this doesn't get you started, post back here, and we'll try to figure out what's wrong.

Good luck.

Jerry


Written in response to:
re: Help here (Craig Jones: Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 6:35 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Let's make a BOOTDISK (Craig Jones: Friday, October 10, 2003 at 6:16 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Help Me install Windows 95 please (Craig Jones: Wed, Oct 8, 2003, 11:49 am)
-Help here (Jerry: Wed, Oct 8, 2003, 10:35 pm)
-re: Help here (Craig Jones: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 6:35 am)
-Let's make a BOOTDISK (Jerry: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 12:11 am)
-re: Let's make a BOOTDISK (Craig Jones: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 6:16 am)
-re: Let's make a BOOTDISK (Jerry: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 7:15 pm)
-re: Let's make a BOOTDISK (Jerry: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 7:26 pm)
*I'm back (Jerry: Fri, Oct 10, 2003, 8:42 pm)
-re: Let's make a BOOTDISK (Craig Jones: Sat, Oct 11, 2003, 1:30 pm)
-You can install WIN95 (Jerry: Sat, Oct 11, 2003, 8:19 pm)
-"No Bootable Devices" (Doretta: Thu, May 6, 2004, 9:24 am)
-re: "No Bootable Devices" (Jerry: Thu, May 6, 2004, 11:25 am)
-re: "No Bootable Devices" (adam: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 9:35 am)
-re: "No Bootable Devices" (Jerry: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 12:58 pm)
-re: "No Bootable Devices" (adam: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 1:03 pm)
*re: "No Bootable Devices" (Jerry: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 1:37 pm)
*re: Antique message threads and language (Kiwi: Thu, Aug 4, 2005, 6:09 pm)
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