Win 95 error on boot

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

Yes, I have a comp here on the bench at work that run Win95. I feel as though I'm in the National Archives or something here sometimes. Anyway, when the PC boots it give me the following: "Type the name of the command interpeter."

I am thinking that the BIOS cannot find the files that it needs to boot to windows. Is this correct? And if so, what can I do about it? Any suggestions or solutions would be a great help. Thanks all! Wave

LaTech · Posted: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:49:36 Post Subject:

It's looking for command.com, I think.

Are you sure you didn't lose the HDD? I've only had that happen when I've lost (due to bad sectors, etc) parts of my HD. Boot with a 98 boot disk and then run scandisk on C: to see if there are any bad sectors.

Is it FAT16 or 32? I would say fdisk /mbr, but then you may not be able to boot at all...

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

See that's what I want to try and avoid. I might try and copy command.com and see if that works. I am going to run a quick antivirus scan when I get a chance and see what that brings up.

LaTech · Posted: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:06:11 Post Subject:

Well, copying Command.com might not work...it's stored in the Win folder, and if it's missing, you can bet other things might be also.

Just copy ghost the disk to something else before you try to fix anything...just in case.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:06:42 Post Subject:

It's HOSED! Most likely your going to have to either repair/replace the HDD or remove a virus and then reinstall.

You can try to run a fdisk c: /mbr and see if that repairs the master boot record though.

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

I just did an Antivirus scan with Symantec Antivirus and it cam up zippo. I am going to run a hard drive diagnostic on it just for $h!ts and giggles and see if the hard drive is getting ready to take a dump. Would a reinstall of Windows work if the hard disk is kosher?

LaTech · Posted: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:27:44 Post Subject:

maybe. Would I want to chance it? Hell no.

If it hosed itself once, theres something wrong and it'll do it again.

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

I'm tired of messing with it. I think the hard disk is hosed just like EvilChez said. New hard drive out of anti-static bag and in!

jake_johnson · Posted: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:43:14 Post Subject:

Where you able to copy *.* off the disk?

timberwolfblues · Rated R Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Indiana

No. I wasen't able to find much of anything on that drive.