How to boot from a boot disk

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johnny

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Hi there everyone Im trying to fix my grandpa's computer cause its not booting up. Months ago I created a boot disk. Now I don't know how to boot from it. I pop it in and it says "starting windows 95" which is good then I get a command prompt asking to type the name of the command interpreter but I dont know what to type. I got a free boot disk from bootdisks.com and when it goes to load it says tthe configuration specified in your config.sys istoo large for you memory remove some drivers and then try again.
So I don't know what to do. If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
 
you should go to the BIOS and change the boot sequence. press del / f10 just as you turn on your pc. change from C to floppy
 
Windows 95 is over 10 years old, and that may be your problem. Try changing the boot sequence to your CD/DVD drive or floppy drive (whatever media you are using). If you have the Windows 95 CD, you could try booting from that. Or, you could go here.
 
I'll try some of those commands there. I'm booting from a floppy. I can not boot from a CD, just cause I cannot declare the CD drive in the BIOS. The commands I've tried are as follows:

scandisk.exe (worked)
format.com (did not work)
chkdsk.exe (did not work)
debug.exe (did not work)
fdisk.exe (did not work)
sys.com (did not work)
attrib.exe (did not work)
edit.com (did not work)

But what else I don't understand is when I use one of those bootdisks I get off the net, why it gives meand error saying I cannot proceed cause its too bug for my memory.
 
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