On Feb 13, 7:43 am, "HH" helpfully
suggested:
Have you tried "sysing" the drive? Get a bootable floppy disk which also has
the file sys.com on it. Boot with that diskette and at the A: prompt, type
sys C:
This will transfer the system files to the boot sector of the hard drive.
Then remove the floppy disk and reboot.

Thanks - though I didn't get to try out your suggestion. Instead, I
went into system setup and found out that the unit wasn't set to boot
from the HD. I don't know how that happened, because it had been set
to start from the HD before, I wouldn't have changed that. On
repeated boot attempts afterwards, the unit powered up and entered
Win95 normally, so i guess the CMOS battery is also okay. Again,
thanks for your response.