[RESOLVED] HELP PLEASE

[TamiSu]

I don't know how I get myself into these situations. I have an older Dell laptop, that doesn't have a cd rom. I was running Win95 and somehow deleted it. I was able to reinstall MS Dos from my Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 floppy disks (3). I can't reinstall Microsoft windows for workgroups 3.11 because I just discovered I lost disk 1 (there are 8 total). I THINK there is a backup thingy somewhere in my computer, but I cant figure out how to revert back. I also have a Windows 95 installation disk if that helps. Please save me.

[stevet]

Do you have any file-transferring software like Laplink? Or do you have any way to connect your laptop to a network? How about access to a parallel port CD drive? Any way you do it, you are going to need to copy the Win95 installation files (\win95 directory on the Windows 95 CD) to your laptop's hard drive and then install from there.

Steve

[bdunn]

How was windows 95 originally installed on this machine? It is available on floppies although hard to find if you call Microsoft they will sell it to you that way.

I have had to install it that way for a customer once. An admiral who did not want to give up his 386 laptop had the Navy order it and me install it for him.

As far as disk 1 for Windows 3.1 if you happened to have registered your copy of windows microsoft will usually ship duplicate media for little more than the cost of shipping it.

Good Luck,
Bruce

[ellingtond]

What also works well on a laptop with no CD is if you can get your hands on a Zip Drive.
Copy the windows install disks to a Zip Disk.
Then hook it up to the laptop using the DOS guest.exe program. Don't try to do the install from the Zip Drive though, copy the files to a win95 directory on the HD and run setup.exe from there. Real lifesaver if you ever get in that position. BTW, you can run into problems trying to do a Win95 install to a laptop using a backback CD, or through a PCMCIA CD. It is better to copy the disks to the HD first. IMHO