Remove "Starting windows 95 message"

Twiggy

Hi,

I got windows 3.1 working fine on a laptop which also runs windows 95, I got the sky logo off and got it to stay at DOS on boot up, however the message "Starting windows 95" is still the first thing to pop-up.... Does anyone know how to remove it?

stitch

I think that this is an entry point somewhere in the IO.SYS early on in the bootstrap process. It's otherwise what would be 'Starting MS-DOS'. You could probably find where that string is in the binary and replace it with ASCII NULL characters.

Twiggy

stitch wrote:

I think that this is an entry point somewhere in the IO.SYS early on in the bootstrap process. It's otherwise what would be 'Starting MS-DOS'. You could probably find where that string is in the binary and replace it with ASCII NULL characters.

I found it, it was in text for some reason when I changed it to "Starting MS-DOS", and saved it and restarted, a bunch of characters come on the screen and it doesn't go past that, also seeing as my floppy drive is dead, I have effectively fucked my system...

calvinb

You probably edited it in a text editor and mangled it. Use a hex editor.

And you could take the disk out and mount it externally.

Twiggy

ampharos wrote:

You probably edited it in a text editor and mangled it. Use a hex editor.

And you could take the disk out and mount it externally.

true, however as it is a laptop hard drive it is in a sort of caddy enclousre, and I have trouble getting the screws to move.

BlueSun

Well, without a functional floppy drive, you're not really left with much choice.