Then you should be able to just pop the diskette out and go put it in your packard bell, boot to it, use your master CD and you would be up and running. ![]() Windows 10 should have native support for USB floppy drives. That can open the *.IMA files and write it out to a floppy diskette using a usb floppy drive. You can then change to the backup directory and run the ERD.EXE utility. From the menu that appears choose the Safe Mode Command Prompt Only option. Then you could get a USB floppy drive (1.44 MB) cheaply off ebay, and then get a copy of WinImage here: It's free for 30 days, which should be enough to get this re-created for you. To boot your machine to the MS-DOS prompt, reboot it and press the key when you see the 'Starting Windows 95' message on the screen.How to re-create: You can get a free copy of WinRAR which should be able to extract from the EXE files on that site which should result in *.IMA floppy image files. A source for packard bell floppy images for you to re-create. I don't know of the original poster here has this thread on notify or not. I hope the moderators will overlook it based on the information I'm bringing to the thread. I have information for this topic and as of yet the original question isn't solved until now. Would really appreciate any and all help people can give! The CD I have with windows 95 is the Packard Bell Master CD with. Modified DOSRUN.EXE and RESTORE.EXE to be more compatible on non-Packard Bell devices. Post by Allene Aubertin to the floppy a workable. So maybe the boot disk for one might work for the other. Modified floppy script to use oakcdrom.sys for more universal CD/DVD drive support and skip unnecessary checks and steps. Originally shipped with a Packard Bell Legend mini tower featuring a Pentium 1 (speed unknown), 8mb of RAM, 1.2gb hard drive, combo sound / 14.4k modem card, and Cirrus Logic video. I don't know if the 9029 model was sold in America, but I live in the UK and it was very similar to the "Pulsar" model which I am sure was also sold in the US. I have the Master CD and would be willing to upload it if anyone wants to take a look at it, or better still, can point me in the right direction to find the start-up floppy disk or downloadable image/files for it.Īlso if it helps I can post a directory tree so you can see what files are on there. I bet a good programmer could take a look at the master cd and actually create the startup disk somehow but its beyond my skills. Sadly I need some help finding the start-up floppy disk which you boot from to install windows 95 from the Master CD. ![]() One of my first PCs was a Packard Bell 9029 from xmas 1997 and I still have it
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