Windows 95 running off a CD

Axon9000

Ok, so one day I desided to try and fix a really old computer that I had lying around the house; I plugged it in and booted it up, It said that the C: Drive didn't exist; I eventually desided to try and boot it from a Cd; that worked, and Microsoft DOS came up; but here's where the trouble starts. I tryed to launch Windows 95 from the disk; it wanted me to setup, but I couldn't because the C: drive was fried; I was wondering if there was anyway to direct the setup prosess at the disk rather than the hard drive so I can use the disk as the drive instead.

yourepicfailure

No. You cannot install windows 95 onto a CD. Thumbdrive is possible, but definitely not CD.
I hope I don't need to explain.

birdy

Axon9000 wrote:

Ok, so one day I desided to try and fix a really old computer that I had lying around the house; I plugged it in and booted it up, It said that the C: Drive didn't exist; I eventually desided to try and boot it from a Cd; that worked, and Microsoft DOS came up; but here's where the trouble starts. I tryed to launch Windows 95 from the disk; it wanted me to setup, but I couldn't because the C: drive was fried; I was wondering if there was anyway to direct the setup prosess at the disk rather than the hard drive so I can use the disk as the drive instead.

There is a guy who did this but with windows 98, or you can try to do it on a usb drive. Or you can use this hacked version that is in french...

There have been discussions about this such as
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-95/how-to-run-windows-95-from-a-cd/170756.html
and
on betta archive...

Methusalix

The last version of Hiren's Boot-CD including Win98 live was 9.5.

Axon9000

birdy wrote:

There is a guy who did this but with windows 98, or you can try to do it on a usb drive. Or you can use this hacked version that is in french...

There have been discussions about this such as
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-95/how-to-run-windows-95-from-a-cd/170756.html
and
on betta archive...

None of these worked out like I wanted them to, ether the task was impossible for hardware reasons, or the download link was unavailable. However you did help me somewhat; because previously, I had no Idea that what I was looking for was a live Cd.

Methusalix wrote:

The last version of Hiren's Boot-CD including Win98 live was 9.5.

Alright, I'll try this out next. Fingers crossed. :P