>>Just thought I should point out that OSR2 is not an update that can be applied to an existing W95 install (at least not in the US, I don't know about Yugoslavia). It was only available as a complete install on a clean hard disk since it was intended for new computers only. Their was only one service pack released for W95, to upgrade beyond that you have to go to W98 which reportedly has problems with older hardware.
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>You're right - we install it as OEM on clean machines. Actually, it was sufficient to erase the registry to get it to accept the machine as "clean", which I did once and it worked.
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I have also done the erase the registry technique but with mixed results. Out of 3 attempts only the first worked well, the other 2 machines booted but exhibited such severe problems that the disks had to be reformatted anyway.


>Another time, when I was changing disks in my home machine, I actually hooked a new disk as slave, formatted it (fat32 on the bigger partition), copied everything, re-hooked the new disk as master and unhooked the old one, booted from a floppy and issued SYS C:. Reset, and it booted just fine.

Did you use one of the MS copy commands or some third party product? If you used MS did you not have a problem with coping hidden, system and read only files? I have not tried to copy an entire disk with the MS copy commands in a while because I use Partition Magic, but their used to be a problem with those file types (one reason I bought Partition Magic to begin with).