Windows 95 Reformating issues

[Bohregard]

Ok, heres what happened. A long long time ago, I decided to reformat one of my computers. An IBM thinkpad, i guess a 760ED runnign with WIN95. So, i had made the boot disk for my computer and reformatted the 1 gig hard drive. When it was done i popped the disk in and it was able to run the c drive...but i had little luck with the D: drive. So after hours of frustration i gave up. Now, I'm trying to fix it for my little brother so he can play games and what not on it, not that it'll do much...but thats the only other computer besides mine. So anyways my question how do i fix my problem? I went onto the diskboots.com or whatever its called and d/l a 95 boot disk and when it would start up, it would recognize the D: drive as R: or C: depending on the disk, but the actually harddrive wasn't even there. So i figured whatever i have the D: drive so i would pop in the 95 installation cd and type in setup.exe in the command prompt it would start, only to tell me that "Cannot create a temporary directory. If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, you will need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to set up windows."

What does that mean?? and how do I go about fixing this problem?

Many thanks in advanced
Bohregard

[Idnew]

Well make sure that 95 boot disk has cd support. All the boot disks in my sig have cd support.

When you boot to the boot disk type in FDISK follow instructions to partition and after that reboot then format c: then reboot using cd support then put your win95 cd in and type the letter of your cd drive and type setup or setup.exe

[cHiNgY1788]

well get the boot disk, then run Fdisk and see if it sees your HDD, if it doesnt, it will read no fixed disks present
If it does see your HDD, find out if the HDD has a Fat16, Not Fat32 or Non Dos or NTFS, partition
ne ways if it has a Fat 16 Partition exit Fdisk then Format C drive

[Bohregard]

well i did all that stuff, and it didn't recognize the C: drive again. I'm thinking maybe the C: drive might be dead or something...I dunno. I don't really know much about the insides of a computer when it comes to hardware and stuff. But yeah, the FDISK didn't work, so I'm at a loss. I dunno if its really worth having someone look at anymore because of the age.

[Idnew]

Go back to the prompt and type in fdisk/mbr see what it does with that