Hang on guy's What version on Win95 are we discussing here? Did any one bother with the comments from |3lack|ce??

Bootable CD's as I recall only started with Win98... I am yet to encounter any 95's that were bootable.. even the OEM Ver.c

I have only ever run the Win95 install from a bootable floppy..WITH CD DRIVERS.. I have managed to run the install useing a Win98 boot floppy..

that out of the way

James have you tried a different CDROM drive?
IS the boot realy recognising the CDROM.. been caught in the past with config errors here.. see.. some of the older hardware was very fussy..
As I commented above.. Have you tried a Win98 Boot Floppy?
If the version of Win95 is earlier than Ver: C.. then I hope that your C: Partition is less than 2Gb. (I am sure it was V.c that was happy with Fat32 and partitions above 2Gb)