To a virtual drive apparently isn't an exact science. Screen errors like it did for the 3.5" USB drive. Windows 95 didn't care for this plan though, threw a lot of blue
To the physical drive, boot Windows 95, and copy the physical drive to a new Tools needed: USB external hard drive enclosure, WinImage.Ĭouldn't get this to work without it. Tryĭoing that with an NT-based version of Windows. You can pop the hard drive intoĪny machine and it'll figure out what to do. Windows 95 is pretty robust in that regard. One day it occurred to me that I could probably still boot off it in Virtual PC. The hard drive itself still works perfectly though. I used that PC until 1999 when the drive controller died.
#WINDOWS 95 VIRTUAL BOX HOW TO#
The closet in my office is filled with various computer parts that I should just sell already.Īmong the clutter is the hard drive from the Micron PC I bought in 1995.īack then I was all excited about Windows 95 but didn't know how to build a PC. If you get copies off some warez site they obviously could be virus-laden. They should be cheap at computer shows or eBay. I'd recommend using legitimate copies too. * I own legitimate copies of DOS 6.2 and Windows 95. This posting was basically the only useful resource I could find, although Earlier on I referred to this topic being "poorly documented". (which I already planned to do before finding the post).
#WINDOWS 95 VIRTUAL BOX INSTALL#
Motherboard driver, and offered the tip on copying the entire Windows 95 install It identified the need to first install DOS 6.2X, linked to the Intel Specifically this posting on installing Windows 95 on Virtual PC. This would be the perfect time to give a huge thanks to "Virtual PC Guy" 500mb minimum hard drive, 32mb minimum free RAM.I prefer the install-DOS-first approach to Windows 95 because it includes a few handy tools that aren't in the Windows-95-only installation.ĭriver (oakcdrom.sys is free and should work with any drive) Non-bootable CD upgrade, bootable 3.5" full version.
#WINDOWS 95 VIRTUAL BOX UPGRADE#
" Hey guys no need to get a PC with Linux preinstalled, just buy a PC with a $200 In my estimate, they view it as a stopgap measure to prevent users from outright switching to Linux. Their motives were not altruistic of course. Microsoft recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download. So why not go out with something that's a) fun b) poorly documented and c) When I build a new PC in the near future it will likely be running some flavor of Linux.Īs such, I expect this will be my last Win2k article. However, good ole' Win2k is getting rusty and I have no interest in Vista for a variety of reasons. I can write Java code and rambling web page articles on Windows 2000 just fine. Nothing personal against Windows XP, it just doesn't offer anything new that I need. It's late 2006 and I'm still running Windows 2000 at home.
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