The Windows 95 startup disk does not include drivers for the CD. Get a
utility to create a startup disk for W95 with CD device drivers that should
work for your CD drive at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">www.bootdisk.com</a>
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp."
<KarenGNeighborhoodReinvestmentCorp.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Our Win95 PC crashed recently. Of all things, it happened while
> attempting
> to make an emergency startup disk. It appeared as if the partition and
> boot
> sector got damaged, and we had to re-partition and re-format the drive.
> We
> managed to get DOS loaded, and the CD-ROM drivers load, but cannot get the
> Win95 setup program to run. Does anyone know if DOS can be made to do
> this?
> (The CD-ROM will play music CD's, but apparently can't recognize or run
> .exe
> files.) Any advice would be greatly appreciated.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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