Installing Windows 95 on a New System or Hard Drive
Before you can install a fresh, clean copy of Windows 95, you must be able to boot to an MS-DOS prompt, and you must have a formatted hard disk. If you need instructions on how to create and format a partition, see Setting Up OSR2 from Scratch in the preceding section. Note that a startup disk created by the original release of Windows 95 supports FAT16 partitions only.
Although Windows 95 Setup generally does a good job of configuring most systems, you can save time and trouble by preparing your machine for installation. Before you begin the Setup process, determine if you are installing Windows from an existing MS-DOS prompt or reformatting your hard disk and doing a clean install. The following ...
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