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Aug 2011, 19:17 Primary OS: MS Windows 10 VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: MS Windows (several versions) DOS Sometimes you have to do this through most of the boot sequence.)Īll in all, it is not the easiest system to get working properly in VirtualBox.

(For some reason I have never worked out, if it freezes in the middle of the boot sequence, it can sometimes be persuaded to restart by moving the mouse pointer round and round in circles. It will often freeze on shutdown, or fail to boot properly. Indeed, with Windows 95 I find it best, once you have partitioned and formatted the virtual hard disk, to create a directory on it called WIN95, copy all files from the WIN95 directory on the (virtual) CD to this hard disk directory, and run SETUP.EXE from there.Īs michaln has pointed out, Windows 95 is buggy.

#Windows 95 osr2 and boot floppy images iso#

iso image of the CD and use that instead.

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It still sounds like there must be something wrong with your floppy disk image.īTW, once you have got the floppy to boot, don't try to install Windows 95 from "Host drive E:".

So as with a physical Win 95 machine you need to have the floppy as the first in the boot sequence, then once the main system has been loaded onto the hard disk "remove" the floppy image. It doesn't matter where the image files are, from the guest's perspective you have a floppy disk, a hard disk, and a CD-ROM (probably), even though from your's host's point of view these are all files on the hard disk. VB still regards the image files as being on a floppy disk. Since my image files were from a floppy I've assumed my first boot order should be a floppy drive even though the image files are actually on my hard drive, i.e. TedN wrote:I have a question on boot order.

The "Bear Windows" video driver, though designed for Win 98, will work with Win 95 too and give a variety of screen sizes and colour depths.ĭlharper Posts: 291 Joined: 25.

It runs more reliably with VT-x turned off, in my esperience.

If you have OSR2, then you can use a larger hard disk, provided you select to use "large disk support" (which is not the default) when running FDISK. If you are using the original, then it will only use FAT16, which means you need to reduce the hard disk size to no more than 512Mb before starting - default is 2Gb. (Actually there are more than two, but there are two principal ones.) There is the original and there is the OSR2 (OEM) version.

There are two different versions of Windows 95.

Since you actually have the CD, which includes the disk image within itself (though you can't get at it yet) you won't be breaching any copyright.Ī few things to note with running Windows 95 in VirtualBox: If you cannot create one easily, there are many copies available on the web - just Google something sensible.

#Windows 95 osr2 and boot floppy images how to#

(I don't know WinImage, so I can't tell you how to use it.) It must be exactly 1,474,560 bytes - anything else and it is not a true image. There are some image file types that may include extra data along with the image itself, and these will fail in these contexts. Your floppy disk image file must be a true raw image. I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction. I've also tried installing Win95a_bootdisk.iso, Dos6.22.img, etc., without any luck. I've tried installing Dos 6, that didn't help. Interface: IMedium Ĭallee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) The medium 'D:\Windows\DOS\Win95\SETUP.BAT' can't be used as the requested device type. If I go to All Files, it just brings up an error:įailed to open the floppy disk file D:\Windows\DOS\Win95\SETUP.BAT. None of the floppy files have any of the extensions. However, it appears VB is looking for file(s) with either of the following extensions: img, ima, dsk, flp or vfd. I have tried the same process with VirtualBox by selecting the floppy files. When I used to install Windows 95 in my old computer I would boot up with the floppy which would eventually start the cd drive and install Windows 95. My current computer doesn't have a floppy drive so I have copied the floppy files to my hard drive. I have the original CD and floppy disk for Windows 95.