re-install Win95

[Ngolem]

Hi...I would like to re-install Win95 on my P90 computer.

I have done an installation in the past when I had a complete HD crash and lost everything. That is not my problem this time.

It seems that over the past 2+ years since then one or 2 ddl's have become corrupted and I get annoying little problems.

Could someone outline step by step what I should do to re-install Win95 without having to reformat my entire c: drive to do it. I'm sure it is pretty straight forward but I just haven't done it before.

Help is appreciated as always


Jim Broadbent

The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!

 

[edfair]

The install will check to see if it is a new install. Usually requires that win.com in the windows directory be removed or renamed. Some have required the user.da* and system.da* to be removed before it would accept it as a new install. A couple of times I've had to remove the desktop directory and a couple of times the entire windows directory.

Install to the same location. Depending on how much you've had to take out it may default to windows, or to windows.000, you want to put it to the original location.

If you are lucky, and it goes into the original location with nothing major having been removed your programs and pointers will remain.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[BFOJ]

I don't know if there is a difference between reinstalling Win95 or Win98, but a couple of years ago I worked on someone's machine that they had messed up by deleting some critical operating system files, creating all kinds of problems. I just reinstalled from the Win98 CD and had it use the same C:\Windows folder to install into and the critical files were replaced and everything ran fine. You then need to do a Windows Update from Microsoft, provided they still provide Win95 updates, which is probably not the case. Or consider upgrading the machine to Win98 if you can find a legal copy on CD.

 

[edfair]

98 has always been more cooperative about reloads. 95 was a test of patience.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[diogenes10]

Ed
Does win95 have an equivalent to the win98 sfc that might be useful to him?


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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[edfair]

No, it came with 98. But if he can get a copy it works with 95.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[edfair]

My boo-boo. Not SFC. Took about 2/10 of a second for the alarm bells to ring.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[diogenes10]

Ed
Ok it was a thought. Finally found MS info too-says exactly what you said.

Jim
What I was asking about
On your son's system, a first step for the problem you are having could be running system file checker. Apparently no other options for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/259181/EN-US/

While looking I also found reference to this-if your problem is coming from duplication of files it might help
but not if problem comes from corruption of just one file:

http://downloads.theregister.co.uk/Windows/Utilities/Uninstallers-Cleaners/rjchecker.html

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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[Ngolem]

my data is backed-up but not my registry...I don't know how to do that...for the sounds of it I just boot up my machine

slip my cd into the drive and click on Setup and follow instructions while crossing fingers...otherwise I can just reformat the drive I suppose.

Jim Broadbent

The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!

 

[diogenes10]

erikhertzel's post in your thread in virus forum for win95 registry backup instructions.


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It's 10 O'Clock ( somewhere! ).
Are your registry and data backed up?

 

[micker377]

Ed Fair: that "2/10 of a second" has to do with the new standards for computers. You have micro seconds and pico seconds. Well, now you have "ono" seconds. That is the time it takes to realise (oh-no!), you hit the wrong button!

 

[Ngolem]

Well....I have decided to forget about this computer....I have limited capability with this compter and can transfer document and spreadsheet files to my second(D)HD. Then I'll just add this as a second drive for a new computer.

I plan now to enter millenium (sp?) and purchase a new tower with rewritable cdrom, USB ports and much more ram so that I can persue my photographic hobby (I like stitching by hand several photos to make panoramic shots.)

Any recommendation on an operating system? Is Win98 enough?
Win95 would not work with USB ports. My puny P90 and 32 meg of ram is not worth supporting any more...even though it did 90% of my requirements (not a gamer)



Jim Broadbent

The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the problem statement!

 

[edfair]

98 should be fine. But you may find that the machine you get may not support it. Parts suppliers are bad about backwards compatibility on a 6 year old OS.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.