Windows 95 Cd Rom Download
95 does not support CD booting
You need to use a bootable floppy.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
Insure FDISK is on this thing. You will need to make a partition manually.
Next, you will need to make sure you have no more than 512MB of RAM
Next, depending on if you have 95B or 95C. You will have to make several small partitions, or up to 32 gigs of space for FAT32. If your drive is larger than 32Gigs, only 32 will be usable, even if you partition it.
After using fdisk, booting the floppy, it will probably make a CD drive called R:
type R:Setup
This should launch the setup for Windows 95. Follow the prompts.
You may need to set your BIOS to a compatibility mode, which usually slows timing and removes hardware BIOS shadowing. You can re-enable optimum mode after you are done installing.
If you are using Win95B, you may not support FAT32, only FAT16, and therefore will need convert it to FAT32 after it is installed (there will be a tool in your start menu to do this)
Good luck finding drivers for your hardware.
A Computer with CD-ROM access A Boot disk with CD-Rom support can be downloaded from here MyBootDisk.com Of course some versions of Windows 95 where released on floppy, if your is then just boot of this disk or run a: setup.exe to start the install. Bootable Windows 95 CD - posted in Windows 3x/9x: I just recently acquired a fairly old PC that was running Windows 98. Downloads; Tutorials. The format erased the CD-ROM drivers, so the only thing that runs are boot-able CDs with drivers already on them. I have found a couple of places on the net that offer boot-able Windows 95 CDs.
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I downloaded the boot floppy, do i burn it to a cd?
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First of all, this laptop does not have fdisk but i was able to make a partition using a windows xp CD. How would I boot the floppy?
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It has to be a floppy disk, and it has to be fdisk from Windows 95 (preferable version C, giving you access to FAT32, or from Windows 98 will work as well)
The ONLY other way to do it, is to install DOS 4 or 5 or 6. Once you have DOS installed (You WILL be stuck with FAT16 like this) you can read from the CD.
It is not necessary to copy the cab files as someone else suggested, the CD will have a setup.exe.
Booting
No, you would boot from floppy disk (either built-in, if your laptop has a built-in floppy drive, or from a USB floppy drive). Then you would use fdisk on the floppy to create the partitions you want, format the hard drive, create C:Windowsoptionscabs, copy the contents of the CD's cabs folder to that location, then run setup.exe from C:windowsoptionscabs.
Also, you might want to put the Windows CD in another computer and make sure you can read it. It's always possible the CD has suffered bit rot over the years. If it's unreadable, email me (lordpeyre at yahoo.com) and I'll see what I can do to help.
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I dont have a floppy drive or any floppy disks. The CD is fine and has everything needed for a windows 95 setup.
Except the Windows 95 Install Disc
Required a Floppy Disc to make it usable.
Those Install Disc's never booted directly they always used a Floppy to start the Install process.
If you want to use 95 you need a Floppy Drive to start the Install Sequence.
Col
98 was the first of 9x to boot directly from CD;
it used a boot floppy emulation
it would boot to DOS mode and get assigned A:
and only 1.45 MB of data was visible
and it was the same contents as on the 98 boot floppy
when you boot with CDROM support
you still got A: and the rest of the CD was available at the CD-ROM Drive letter
usually , E: or higher depending on installed HDs and whether or not they were partitioned into multiple drives
Windows 95 Cd-rom Driver Download
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I used to use a 98 disk to start the install for 95. Just leave the disk in until it had loaded the drivers, then swap the CD's. Made it lots easier.
LeonBA told you right
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Follow that advice as he (she?) is exactly right. Yes, Win 98 was the first to boot directly, AS A general rule. But I know of SOME Win 95 OEM disks that were bootable, (Usually into a repair type option), and at least one LATE Win 95 disk version that would, but it was after the OSR2... With USB support, & FAT 32 support. Some early Win 95 versions only supported Fat 16... And trust us, you do not want that one! ('Normal' Floppies are Fat 12, BTW) A far better option would be at LEAST Win 98se, at a minimum... Why Win 95? Almost nothing works with it now. Or even better, a Linux distro intended for older hardware. There are many, but one of my personal favorites for older (vintage!) Hardware is Puppy Linux. It won't give you a lot of the bells and whistles, but it WILL work with more modern OS'es (in networking) on other machines, and a combination of old and newer hardware, like, your old laptop, and a webcam built yesterday morning! It also can read, and write, to a wider variety of disk file types. Win 95 can read and write, depending on version, only fat 16 or that and fat 32. (And floppies, which as I said, are Fat 12) But that's it. NO NT! Anything written by a later OS, like Win XP or later, won't show up.
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