I have a windows 95 disc from back in the day and it will not work to install the os on DOS nor will it work not to install its self on VPC 2007 on windows xp. any help will be thanked
It would be better if you explain why it won't work. Saying just your problem and begging a solution without further information won't get you anywhere.
Like, what are you trying to do? If I'm correct, I believe Windows 95 isn't bootable. If I'm also correct, you should be able to either use an old computer or a VM (I highly recommend VMWare Workstation Player, which is free if you look in the downloads page on their website) to install DOS on it, and upgrade from there. Unless you somehow get your CD to be bootable, but then again I know so little about this so I'm not very sure.
Try just booting from the floppy disk, as booting from a windows 98 CD does weird things. It basically "emulates" a floppy disk with various things on it, such as fdisk. Doing this makes it impossible to read a floppy disk in a drive as it is reading the "emulated" disk instead
What disc is your Windows 95? If memory serves me correct, only OSR2.1 and later Windows 95 discs were bootable natively, otherwise you'd need the boot floppy (which if memory serves me correct again, we carry).
What disc is your Windows 95? If memory serves me correct, only OSR2.1 and later Windows 95 discs were bootable natively, otherwise you'd need the boot floppy (which if memory serves me correct again, we carry).
Windows 95 has multiple issues on faster computer that will result in a protection fault at startup. Look for the file "fix95cpu_v3_final.zip". You have to run this from a boot floppy before running the second phase of Windows 95 setup, and it will apply the appropriate patches.
Also you have to limit Windows 95 to about 900MB of RAM or less.
Although I thought most VMs had workarounds for that. Perhaps they dropped those.
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http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 31-Win.exe
What error message are you getting in DOS?
To install Windows 95, you boot from a floppy disk with CD-ROM drivers. For most emulators you may use this Windows 98SE boot floppy: https://winworldpc.com/product/microsof ... -boot-disk
Then make sure your hard disk is partitioned and formated. Note that you must use FAT16, not FAT32 unless you are using Win95 OSR2 or later.
Then run setup.exe from the \win95 directory on your CD.
Windows 95 Retail Full (3.5")
Windows 95 Retail Upgrade (5.25")
All of the media is 3.5" or 5.25" floppy disk (Not CD-ROM)
It works well,
Also you have to limit Windows 95 to about 900MB of RAM or less.
Although I thought most VMs had workarounds for that. Perhaps they dropped those.