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Two DOS's

When i installed the Windows 95 Upgrade i started with a brand new hard drive.I loaded DOS 6.2,then a cd-rom driver.
At that point i was able to install"95"with my CD-ROM drive.
I did not install Win.3.1,i only inserted the Diskette when Setup asked me to.Now i seem to have two DOS directories,one
original 6.2,and a new Win 7.0.Can i delete some or all of the 6.2.What would be the consequences to my CD-ROM drive,or any other part of my "95"installation?

magigraf

Well it's a little bit unclear from here how did it go while installing WIN95. Normally the procedure would have been to BOOT of a startup disk along with an autoexec.bat and config.sys with a refference to your CD-Rom drive and drivers to make it available for you to install from the CD.

Now my best advice would the following:

1) Boot Ms-DOS
2) Rename one of these directories like e.g.: DOS1
3) Restart your computer, and go to dos, try to execute few dos commands, try windows see if everything is working fine, from windows start a MS-DOS session and check if everything is fine.

4) Now Boot again DOS and rename the other directory e.g.: Dos2
5) Repeat same in step 3

Normally windows install all needed DOS files by default in c:\windows\command directory

Of course have a STARTUP disk handy if during one of these trial your system fails to start, you use it to rename back the directory that the system refused to boot without. It would be clear that at this point that there is some refference somewhere pointing to this directory.

I hope have helped to clarify the situation, if you need further help let me know.
Regards

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magigraf

If you need to be helped, we need feedback, I guess this is fair right??

PHOENIX

Huh?