Re: OT: Any way to get Win95 to boot again?
you could try using fdisk, in linux, in the form fdisk /dev/hdc. press m
for the menu to familiarize yourself with the options available.
selecting a from the menu lets you toggle a bootable flag on the
appropriate partition and, as long as lilo is properly configured to
read that partition, windows should be bootable. fdisk is powerful, so
it would be worth your while to research the man pages before you
actually use it.
Marc Shapiro wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
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> http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/ -- Dr. Ferenc Androczi, winemaker,
> Little Hungary Farm Winery
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