This has come up before, and I've not heard of
anyone successfully retrieving "recycled" files
using DOS enough to make a Win95 installation work
again.

You can probably re-install on the existing drive
without reformatting it, thus (probably) saving
your data that's stored in any other folders than
C:\WINDOWS
or
C:\Program Files

If you have applications that have been storing
data in folders within the
C:\Program Files
folder, you may want to retrieve that data using
DOS first -- the new Windows install MAY overwrite
it.  It may not, but I wouldn't depend on its not
overwriting it.

I know for sure that if you erase those two
aforementioned folders, Win95 will install fine
and leave everything else alone.

Earlier discussion on this topic is here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/t1112795486

Jerry

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