From: kayhyphenarcher-mail.com@antispam.com   
      
   "Stuart"  wrote in message   
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   > I wonder if anyone can help me.   
   >   
   > I have an old system that has been passed to me that I want to pass on to   
   my   
   > parents to get them up and running.   
   >   
   > My problem is that the hard drive has been formatted and I am in DOS which   
   I   
   > know nothing about.   
   > It knows that A and C drive are there but not D drive which is the CD rom   
   > (or at least was)   
   >   
   > I have windows 95 CD Rom and 2 x start up disk one with IDE support (which   
   I   
   > downloaded from the net) and one without. Both have been tried neither   
   seem   
   > to help.   
   >   
   > How do I tell DOS that there is a D drive and install windows from it ?   
   >   
   Where did you get your bootdisk?   
      
   Use a program from www.bootdisk.com to create a Windows 95 bootfloppy.  It   
   will make the cd-rom drive R:.   
      
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