cokes22
September 2nd, 2004, 08:29 PM
I'm working on a friends packard bell computer which he about killed because he deleted a huge amount of files. I want to reinstall windows 95 so I formatted the C drive, and with the help of this forum, created a bootdisk from bootdisk.com. Everything seems to start out fine. The computer boots up from the disk, the cd-rom is recognized, and it leaves me at the a:\> prompt. With the backup disk inserted in the cd-rom, I changed the prompt to r:\>, type SETUP, hit ENTER. The cd-rom starts up but soon after I get the infamous "Bad command or file name" message and the prompt returns to R:\>. I don't know what to do from here. Perhaps some DOS files were deleted and that is what is causing this error. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.