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Startup Disk | Windows95 |

General Information - 

A boot disk, is a floppy diskette which is specially formatted under windows 95 containing enough files to allow the user to boot the computer under emergency conditions.

You can obtain a download file that can create a bootable floppy disk from bootdisk.com.

you can also get a download file so you can make a boot floppy disk from our site from our FAQs search page. When you click this link you will be presented with a page that has 4 available boxes, type in the first 3 boxes the example you see on that page (first box is the word "download" second box is the word "boot" and the third box type in the word "95") then press the Search button to see the result.

How to.... - 

How to create a boot disk.

1) Open the Control Panel.
2) Double Click the "Add/Remove Programs" icon to open the program
    The "Add/Remove Programs Properties" window will open
3) Click the "Startup Disk" tab on the top right of the window
4) Click the "Create Disk" button.

You will be prompted to insert a diskette in the drive.

Depending on how you installed windows, you might need to insert the Windows 95 CD-ROM disk in the drive so that the needed files can be copied. Systems that came pre-installed with windows might already have the needed files on the hard drive, and will not ask you to insert the windows CD disk.

Note: The disk must be a High Density and the write protect tab must be disabled. You can check this by looking at the top right and left corners of the diskette. It has a square hole in each corner. When the Write Protect is disabled, the tab inside the hole is moved so you can NOT see through the hole. So when you look at the diskette, you will only be able to see through just one hole.

The files contained on the startup disk are listed at the "Windows 95 Files" page.

Statup Disk ( Boot Disk ) Files for windows 95b ( OSR2 )  - all files have a date stamp of "08/24/96 11:11a"

Note : Download these files to a temporary folder and then copy them to the root folder because if you have a different version of Windows and mix the system files with the ones below you can have problems. Only place these files on the root drive when you are absolutely sure you are running Windows 95b.

More information on the Startup Disk can be found in the "Windows 95 Startup Disk" page.

- file name -	--..--	- file size -
ATTRIB.EXE	---	15,252	download attrib.exe,
AUTOEXEC.BAT		*** Note 1
CHKDSK.EXE		28,096	download chkdsk.exe,
COMMAND.COM		93,812	download command.com,
CONFIG.SYS		*** Note 2
DEBUG.EXE		20,554	download debug.exe,
DELTREE.EXE		19,019	download deltree.exe,
DRVSPACE.BIN		65,271	download drvspace.bin,
EDIT.COM		69,886	download edit.com,
EXTRACT.EXE		46,656	download extract.exe,
FDISK.EXE		63,116	download fdisk.exe,
FIND.EXE		6,658	download find.exe,
FORMAT.COM		49,543	download format.com,
HIMEM.SYS		33,191	download himem.sys,
IO.sys		214,836	download io.sys, hidden system file
LABEL.EXE		9,324	download label.exe,
MEM.EXE		32,146	download mem.exe,
MOVE.EXE		27,235	download move.exe,
MSCDEX.EXE		25,473	download mscdex.exe, more info,
MSDOS.SYS		9	download msdos.sys, hidden system file Note: follow the links and when you see the link that says "Click Here to Download" right click on the link and select SaveAS. Otherwise the browser will mistakenly show you the file rather then download it.
REGEDIT.EXE		105,984	download regedit.exe,
SCANDISK.EXE		142,353	download scandisk.exe,
SCANDISK.INI		7,332	download scandisk.ini,
SYS.COM		18,967	download sys.com,
UNINSTAL.EXE		76,496	download uninstal.exe,
XCOPY.EXE		3,878	download xcopy.exe,
XCOPY32.EXE		41,472	download xcopy32.exe,

You can also obtain a download file that can create a bootable floppy disk from bootdisk.com.

Note 1:

When making a boot disk, the autoexec.bat contents are...

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS  FILES=30 BUFFERS=20 device=a:\cdromdrv.sys /d:MSCD001       LASTDRIVE=Z

DOS based programs using a driver would have "device=c:\cdrom\cdromdrv.sys /d:MSCD001"

• Note 2: 

When making a boot disk, the config.sys contents are...

When making a boot disk, the config.sys contents are...

A:\mscdex.exe /d: mscd001

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