Installing W95 on bare-drive

[Peter Johnston]

I have a 20Gb HDD that I formatted to bare metal.  Using an ASUS 440LX MB.

Want  to install W95, so that I can load WinXP Pro up-grade.

Tried getting a boot-disk  off the net.  T

The CD-ROM (Matsushita/Panasonic CW-8576-B) won't work (though I can hear it spinning).  

I have disconnected the second HDD and CD-ROM and corrected the CMOS in an effort to simplify things.  

Any hints?

[dl65]

Peter Johnston......I could be wrong .......but I dont believe you can go from Win 95 to Win Xp pro with an upgrade.  I believe the upgrade is designed to upgrade
Win 98 , win 98se , ME , win 2000 . you should load win 98 or one of the others and then upgrade...... that will work.
You will need a win 95 boot disk to reload the necessary drivers you need because once you have formatted the hard drive there arent any left to make the cd drive active . You can get a boot disk here ......
http://www.bootdisk.com/     I'm not sure if you need Win 95 original or win95 B

hope this helps,
let us know
dl65