Dell Latitude CP..........question

[ccunegin]

What I did was I inserted a floppy and created a startup disk. Then I fdisk and formatted the C: drive. Now I insert the Floppy and bootup.......it sends me to an A: prompt. If I reboot with the floppy. Windows 95 will flash and then it goes back into dos at a C: prompt. What should I have done? or what can I do?

 

[edfair]

You wiped all the support stuff off. I assume you want your original windows on the machine. If so, get into bios and make the CD bootable and first in boot order. Let windows install, then on reboot fix the boot order to HD. Ed Fair
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[ccunegin]

Ok what I was trying to do was wipe everything away and start over fresh with just windows 95. But now with my start up diskette and goes straight to an A: prompt......and without the startup diskette it flashes the windows 95 screen and then goes straight to a C: prompt.

 

[edfair]

You have a restore CD don't you? That is the most reliable way to get your OS back on the drive. Any other way is going to create problems because of the need of specialized drivers that are required.
You plug the restore CD in and reboot with the CD as first choice for bootable devices.
Ed Fair
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[ccunegin]

I do not have the cd rom internal or external......I was hoping that I could do everything from the floppy disk.

 

[edfair]

Do you have an installation set of floppy disks for W95?
Or a CD of W95. You'll need something with the install files to make the installation and some way to get those files onto the machine. There are ways, but until we know what the assets are there is only speculation on how to accomplish it. Ed Fair
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[ccunegin]

First I would like to say thanks for you help. Ok I do not have a W95 startup diskette. But what I do have is a working pc w/cd-rom. So on my laptop all I can use is DOS. So I was hoping that I can link my lap up with my pc and use the cd-rom there to install software onto the laptop. Is that possible?

 

[edfair]

If both were running DOS6.22 you could use interlnk and intersrv but you aren't at that level.
You could also use laplink thru serial or parallel ports.
Or lantastic Z through the ports. The probable best solution would be an external parallel port zip drive.
But without knowing what assets you could call on, any advice is guessing.
Do you have any friends with computer equipment to guide you, or a computer club you could visit? Ed Fair
unixstuff@juno.com
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[cdogg]

Do you have the necessary cables/equipment to connect the two pc's? What are you planning on using?

Once they're connected, here's a list of DOS commands that you might find useful:

http://www.fhctech.org/networking/doscommands.htm

http://www.cae.wisc.edu/fsg/winnt/netuse.html

~cdogg

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