I've about lost all hope

[matt1821]

Someone please help asap!!

I have an old packard bell pb2900. It was given to me and it works but only in dos. I have to use the win95 startup disk to get only a little further. It recognizes my cd-rom and that is about as far as it gets. I DO NOT have the win95 setup disk (nor anything else but the pc itself). I DO have the win95 pavilion cd which does not have setup on it. I do not have those certain files (such as dossetup.exe, setup.exe, and the other ones that i need), all i have is a win95 boot from boot disk.com. It seems all i need is a setup disk. Is there a place to download this, or what do you suggest i do from here? (the harddrive is completely formatted) i hope i left nothing out

[oink]

You have a dos computer unless you get another operating system. Ask around, as there are quite a few win95 disks about that are no longer being used. I bet you know someone who would give you a licensed copy. You can always go to Linux, which has free versions.

[Alfons]

Originally Posted by matt1821

Someone please help asap!!

I have an old packard bell pb2900. It was given to me and it works but only in dos. I have to use the win95 startup disk to get only a little further. It recognizes my cd-rom and that is about as far as it gets. I DO NOT have the win95 setup disk (nor anything else but the pc itself). I DO have the win95 pavilion cd which does not have setup on it. I do not have those certain files (such as dossetup.exe, setup.exe, and the other ones that i need), all i have is a win95 boot from boot disk.com. It seems all i need is a setup disk. Is there a place to download this, or what do you suggest i do from here? (the harddrive is completely formatted) i hope i left nothing out

Some additional questions:

1. Do you have any documentation on the PB2900 - hard copy or downloaded from the PB support site?
2. What's on the hard drive now or is it empty?
3. If it comes to a command prompt that looks like:
C:\>
Type win and press enter. Does this do anything?

Some comments:

1. The HP disk that you have would be a restore disk for an HP computer and normally won't even start on a different brand - or might give you an error message.
2. The restore disk is bootable, so if you set up the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM, it might try to start the restore process.
3. W95 Installation disks are very cheap these days, so go get a real one and then try to find the drivers for the PB motherboard (have you tried their support site?) and other components and make yourself a clean installation.