Ed, I'm using Win98, so I don't know if this will help you. When I click on Settings, then Control Panel, then Add/Remove Programs, the dialog box I get has a 'Startup Disc' tab at the upper right. Clicking on that tab gives me a dialog for creating a startup diskette, which includes CD-ROM support. I don't remember if this was the case for Win95 or not. Even if it gives you the startup disc option, you'll want to make sure the resulting diskette has the CD-ROM drivers on it, along with the commands in autoexec.bat and/or config.sys to load them. I suggest you check it out and if not true, wait until someone familiar with Win95 weighs in. You're right, though that you will need a floppy startup disc with CD-ROM drivers in order to reinstall Windows.