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Hi my name is Jenny Smith and I am about to setup a pentium 75 with windows 95b. Can you give basic information on how to get started. Example: Formatting the hard drive? and setting up Window 95 ver b from CD rom. The computer has an older type CDrom drive which will need the driver installed etc. Is it better to copy all the setup files to the hard disk. I want to start from scratch.
Please reply today if possible.
Thanks Jenny

bchew

Do you have the documentation that came with the CD? It has really quite clear and easy to follow setup instructions with it. If so, is there something you need us to help you clarify?

Lee W, MVP

Copying the Win95 subdirectory to another directory on the hard disk will speed the actual installation process and prevent problems with the installation when you reboot if you don't have the CD-ROM driver properly configured in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. Additionally, if you have the hard disk space and you leave the source files on the drive, whenever you change system settings or install drivers or other 95 components that require the CD, it will automatically look there for the files, meaning you don't have to have the CD handy. So, if you expect to have a lot of space, I'd say copy the setup files from the CD to the hard disk and run setup there. Otherwise, make certain once you've formatted the drive that the boot disk contains the appropriate drivers for the CD-ROM drive and copy them, along with a config.sys that loads the driver and an autoexec.bat that loads mscdex. (which you should also be sure to have).

whoami

jan,

you can get the drivers for your CD-Rom from

http://www.download.com

CShenberger

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