Ok...i am putting a COMPUTER in my room and it's an old IBM my dad GAVE it to me from his work. I couldn't log on so i tried to uninstall everything. but i must have forgot a few things. now i am tryig to reinstall win95. I got a win95 bootdisk but my A:\ file gets a general error. Then when i try to start it when it does work it SAYS i an't perform that in the DOS file thing.
PLZ HELP ME!Go to Bootdisk http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and download the bootdisk that matches your Windows 95. RUN this file to create the Win 95 boot floppy. Boot from the newly made floppy, then you can install Win 95 using your set of Win 95 floppies.

Hope this helps. ty that helped a bit..but my dad came home and just typed a few commands and it was all good...lol thx anywayshi if i understand correctly, if you try to install windows xp, you have to boot from cd not floppy. i cant GET dos to boot from the cd driveany tips.
cheers, Nutty.Pimping a ride on another persons thread is not very wise. People looking at this thread would seemingly have some knowledge of Win95. Throwing a WinXP problem out of nowhere tends to get the poster no response or worse, a wrong answer. Your problem should be posted in the windows forum.

Just for the record, you have to change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the CD.

Cheers