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OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?



I was given a new-to-me, but still ancient box ( Pentium 166 ) with
Win95 on it.  At the time, windows was booting fine.  I put in a new HD
(and moved the old disk to hdc) and installed Debian -- after playing
around with other distros (my old DX486 has never had any other distro
on it).

Somewhere along the line, Win 95 stopped booting.  All of the files are
there (io.sys, msdos.sys, windows and windows\system directories, etc.)
it just wont boot.  Since I don't use anything but linux, now, I never
did anything about it.  But now I am going back to school (for a C.S.
degree) and will need to use M$ software and languages.  Since I am a
stay-at-home dad with a 9 month old georgeous baby girl I would rather
do my work at home instead of in an on-campus computer lab.  This means
that I will need to run Windows.  I don't have a boot disk (and my bios
wont boot from CDROM).  I have tried to get lilo to boot windows, but
without any luck.  I imagine that the partition boot sector has gotten
trashed.  Does anyone know of a way that I can get Windows to
boot,again?

Any help will be appreciated.

-- 
Marc Shapiro                         "If you drink melomel every day,
m_shapiro@bigfoot.com                you will live to be 150 years old,
Please visit "The Meadery" at:       unless your wife shoots you."
http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/   -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker,
                                     Little Hungary Farm Winery



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