RE: Help! Windows95? Anyone?
Hi James.
Try with this:
Boot from Window$ 95 diskette.
At system prompt, run "fdisk /mbr" to rewrite Master Boot Record.
If it work, you can boot from hard disk.
Jorge D. Ruckj ( jruckj@tron.fi.uba.ar )
Sorry for my bad english...
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> De: James A. Bates <beckster@ballistic.com>
> A: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Asunto: Help! Windows95? Anyone?
> Fecha: Jueves 7 de Mayo de 1998 12:14
>
> Hello,
>
> I realize that this is mailing list concerns Debian, but everyone here
> has been so helpful so I thought I'd ask here first. I bought a used
> harddrive yesterday so that I could install Debian and keep Windows95 on
> my first drive. I tested a program called Master Booter to see how it
> worked and now I cannot get my first drive to boot. Is there any way to
> fix the master boot record so Master Booter doesn't have control? I even
> deleted Master Booter, but it's still there at boot. Right now I'm using
> the harddrive I bought yesterday. Fortunately, it already had Win95 on
it.
>
> Also, I have the Windows95 setup on floppies. Disk #2 has been
> corrupted. I found the Win95_02.cab file elsewhere. I copied every file
> from the setup disks to my harddrive, hoping to reinstall Win95. It won't
> let me, though. It asks for "Disk 2", but it won't let me browse for it.
> It will apparently only accept it from A:\. I even tried formatting a
> floppy disk with WinImage to DFM (?) so it would have 1.63MB on it, but
> setup still won't read the Win95_02.cab. Is there a way to setup from my
> harddrive?
>
> I really want to try Debian, but I need to correct these other
problems
> first.
>
> I apologize for asking this here. I've searched every engine I could
> find and have spent hours reading through mailing list archives, but I
> can't find an answer to these questions anywhere.
>
> I'd appreciate any help I can get.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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