Hi! This is an SOS. I need urgent help with this. My mom works at home and she types in an older computer which uses Windows 95 (which is okay for what she does, when she delivers copy). On Friday, when she went to work, there was a floppy in the floppy drive and the computer wouldn't complete the booting sequence, instead of warning so that the floppy would be removed, it gave a screen we had never seen. We hit a key we thought would take us out of there (having removed the floppy) and expected to go to Windows. We were wrong. The computer started asking for a booting disk. I searched high and low until I found the Win 95 bootable disk that was made when Windows 95 was installed in her machine. It takes me to drive A: and just sits there and the cursor blinks and nothing happens. I don't know how to recover Windows and don't want to reinstall it because she would lose her work in the machine. She's a heart patient and a retiree, her job is important to her and I would like to help her if I could, but do not know how to access the system and get it to react. I don't think she has a recover setup that we could access.
Is there a way to reach drive C: and access the computer and "repair" Windows?
How do you use a booting disk to access a computer in order to reach the files that do that kind of repair? Is there ANY repair possible without having to take this machine to the shop?
Thank you soooooo much! :cry:
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Jump to PostHi! This is an SOS. I need urgent help with this. My mom works at home and she types in an older computer which uses Windows 95 (which is okay for what she does, when she delivers copy). On Friday, when she went to work, there was a floppy in …
Jump to Postwoops sorry i didnt see that second post of yours. Well to get into your bios upon startup some computers can access the bios through hitting the F2 button at the top of the keyboard, some are F1 some laptops are Fn + Esc etc... check your manual for exact …
Jump to Postcan you boot do dos? aka use win95 boot disk and get the A:> prompt? if you dont have a win95 boot disk you can make one from several sites that let you download one just search google. but if you can get to the dos prompt i may be …
Jump to PostI know I am comming into this conversation a little late..
Does this machine have a cd burner?Do you have access to broadband?
If so I would suggest you download a copy of knoppix or mepis so you can boot to it and make a backup copy …
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