@ A: X\setup.exe    where X is your CD-ROM.







On Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 11:51 am, Tom Powell wrote:

>hello alex

>you wrote; To SYS your C drive, type: SYS C: 

>   and then press ENTER. After a few seconds, a 

>   "System Transferred" message appears.

>With the windows 95 Startup Disc in the floppy drive I typed in SYS C: got to the 

>system transferred message and got  A:\>_ again.

>i tried "copy config.sys c:" and 1 file was copied

>I tried "copy autoexec.bat  c:" and selected overwrite yes  I again get A:\>_  and 

>i don't know what command to enter there to get things started.

>

>I tried the Windows 95B disk i made from bootdisk and i typed in boot 95b.exe and 

>i got the message program cannot be run in DOS  I again get A:\>_  and i don't know 

>what command to enter there to get things started.

>

>Thanks for the help so far.  My original intent was to reformat the hard drive on 

>my laptop.  I have done this before by using the DELL Inspiron 30000 Windows 95 
Reinstallation 

>Guide. Their instructions are to prepare the drive by booting the system with the 

>Dell System Utilities Diskette and run the PREPHD.BAT file from the A:> drive.  
I 

>assume I could now enter A:\>_ prephd and proceed with the instructions in the guide, 

>but I'm relunctant to start down that road and I would like like to get the computer 

>running from where I'm at now.   A:\>_

>

>Aloha

>Tom 
 

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