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So what's your question?


On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 3:18 pm, jason Fowler wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?:

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i think jason is asking "what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95 will start" as stated in the title of his post.

this is what you have to type: c:/ (press enter) type: cd windows/ (press enter once again) finally type the following: win and you will be taken into windows =)

-bello

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I am having the same problem in win 98. What do I type at the a:\ prompt to get windows to run? Are the instructions the same? I can't get mine to start and my laptop only allows a floppy or a cd to be run on the computer at one time (not both) until I can get it up and running. Bin


On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 9:05 pm, bello wrote:
> i think jason is asking "what should I type At The A:\ Promt So THat Windows 95
>will start" as stated in the title of his post.

this is what you have to type:
>c:/ (press enter) type: cd windows/ (press enter once again) finally
>type the following: win and you will be taken into windows =)

-bello

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pending that you are using a non NT OS (such as win95, win98, winME) yes.. to access windows you must get yourself into the c:/windows/ folder.. then type: win

-bello

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If the A:\ prompt is appearing then likely the machine was booted from a dos boot 
disk. Depending on the configuration of the boot disk windows may or may not load 
when you change to the drive (e.g., C:) where it is installed and the directory (e.g., 
\WINDOWS) and type the WIN command.
The boot disk MUST have an MSDOS.SYS file that points to the exact location of the 
windows directory. If the msdos.sys file just has one line like ;SYS then it will 
not work.

Dodgy stuff - and that's all assuming Windows is actually present on the hard disk!







On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 7:22 pm, bello wrote:
> pending that you are using a non NT OS (such as win95, win98, winME) yes.. to access 
>windows you must get yourself into the c:/windows/ folder.. then type: win

-bello

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How long does it take for Win98 to load when you type win. Its taking a very long time Also whenever i turn off the computer it goes directly back to the command prompt Any ideas would be very helpful Thanks in advance EKiely


On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 1:27 pm, Bin wrote:
>I am having the same problem in win 98. What do I type at the a:\ prompt to get
>windows to run? Are the instructions the same? I can't get mine to start and my
>laptop only allows a floppy or a cd to be run on the computer at one time (not
>both) until I can get it up and running.
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>Bin
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This is an old thread.  I hope someone will reply.

I cannot get my DELL Inspiron 3000 to start windows 95.  I have made a win95b floppy 
from the desktop at the internet shop.  I connect my external BackPack CD-ROM to 
the computer, insert the floppy, turn the power on and press the start switch.  I 
check the setup and the diskette is the boot device.  The computer goes through a 
couple of screens and the floppy whirs.  I then get the message

CD-ROM Device Driver for IDE
Copyright Oak Tech...
Driver Version  :V340
Device Name  :BANANA
No drives found aborting installation 

Device drivers not found:  'BANANA'
No valid CDROM device drivers selected
A:\>

At this point I've tried to follow the instructions in several threads regarding 
starting win95, but no success.  Maybe I should be starting a new thread?

Aloha
Tom Powell

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