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In Virtual Box, create a new Windows 95 machine. For the disk, use an existing drive and browse to the VDI file. 2) Download a CPU fix: My virtual machine did not start up because the CPU was too fast. Accessing the Settings menu of the virtual image Inside the Settings menu, select the Storage entry from the left-hand side menu. Next, click the Empty sub-item of Controller: IDE. Then, go over to the Attributes tab and click on the CD icon and click on Choose Optical Disk File. Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a 'Start' menu. And it included the same networking abilities as Windows for Workgroups. Installing Windows 95 in Virtualbox - posted in Windows 95/98/ME: Hello! I recently obtained a Windows 95 CD. I want to install it on VirtualBox, but I can't get the CD to boot.

This is a step by step guide for installing Windows 95 in VirtualBox.

Requirements:

  • A working installation of VirtualBox. You can download and install it for free from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  • A Windows 95 Operating System CD with a valid license key
  • A Windows 95 Bootdisk. You can download it from here: https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/95.html
  • SciTech Display Doctor v7.0 beta which you can download from here: https://scitechdd.wordpress.com/

Procedure:

A. Creating our Windows 95 Virtual Machine

Step 1: Open VirtualBox and create a new machine by navigatomg to Machine and selecting the ‘New’ Option.

Step 2: Type in a name for your VirtualMachine, select a location for the machine files, select ‘Microsoft Windows’ as the type of the machine and Windows 95 as the version from the drop-down lista dn click on Next.

Step 3: Select the amount of memory (RAM) available for the machine and click on Next. This can be anywhere from 8MB RAM to 512 RAM. The recommended memory size is 64MB.

Step 4: Create a virtual hard disk for Windows 95. You can selecet VDI (VirtualBox Type), dynamically alocated (hard disk image will grow in size only when needed) and a 2GB filesize which is the maximum that Windows 95 will support.

Step 5: The machine is now ready but we will need to mount the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM and the Windows 95 bootdisk in order to be able to start the machine and proceed with the installation. In order to mount the media, right-click on the machine and select ‘Settings’ and navigate to the ‘Storage’ settings

Step 6: From the Storage settings mount the Windows 95 bootdisk on the Floppy Drive and the Windows 95 Operating System CD-ROM or image to the CD-ROM drive and select OK.

B. Formatting the Hard Disk and copying the installation files

Step 7: We are now ready to start our machine by either double clicking on it, or selecting it and choosing the Start option. You will be greeted with a black DOS terminal screen waiting for your input. Do not freak out. There are a number of things we will need to do before we install Windows 95.

Step 8: We need to configure our hard-disk using fdisk in order to be able to install Windows 95. Type the ‘fdisk’ command (without the quotes) and hit Enter. From FDisk select the 1st option, to Create DOS partition by typing 1 and clicking ‘Enter’.

Select ‘1’ again to create a Primary DOS partition

And then select ‘Y’ (Yes) to utilize the maximum available size of our hard disk for this partition. If all goes well a message will appear telling you to restart your machine before using the partition.

Step 9: Now in order restart our machine we need to select the ‘Reset’ option from the Machine Dropdown Toolbar.

Step 10: Before proceeding with the Windows 95 installation we need to format our newly created partition, create a directory for the Windows 95 setup files, copy them over from the CD and then run the setup executable file.

In order to do that we are going to run a few DOS commands one by one starting with ‘format c:’ and pressing Enter. Select ‘Y’ to proceed and leave blank the volume label.

Now to copy the Windows 95 setup files we need to type the following commands.

Select the C: drive where Windows 95 will be installed: C: (press enter)

Create a new directory for the setup files: mkdir WIN95 (press enter)

Copy over the Windows 95 Setup files from the installation CD to the C drive: copy R:WIN95*.* C:WIN95 (press enter)

Once the copying finishes we will enter the WIN95 directory: CD WIN95 (press enter)

And run the installation: SETUP.EXE (press enter) and then press enter again to start the process.

C. Installing Windows

Step 11: We are now on our way to installing our operation system. All we need to do is follow the onscreen instructions to proceed and finalise the installation process.

Press the ‘Continue’ button to start the setup process.

Accept the Microsoft Software License Agreement by clicking ‘Yes’.

Proceed with the first step which will collect information regarding your system by pressing ‘Next’.

Select the default Windows Setup directory and click ‘Next’.

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For a ‘Typical’ Windows 95 setup we can use the ‘Typical’ selected option and click on ‘Next’.

Type in your product identification code before proceeding to the next step.

Type in your Name and Company name (if any) and proceed to the next step.

Make sure to select both the ‘Network Adapter’ and ‘Sound, Midi, or Video Capture Card’ options in order for Windows to install them and proceed to the next step.

The setup will spend a few minutes analyzing your computer before proceeding with the next step.

Once the analysis is done, the setup will ask if you would like to install three additional Windows tools; Microsoft Network, Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Fax. We can safely ignore these and proceed with the next step.

Afterwards the installation will prompt you if you would like to install the most common Windows Components or if you would like to choose the components to install. We can leave the recommended option selected and proceed to the next step.

In order to identify your computer on the nextwork you can type a computer name, a workgroup name and a computer description before proceeding. You can type anything for these before proceeding.

The setup can also create a startup disk for you in case there are issues when we start up Windows. No need to create this at this stage. We can proceed with the next step.

Now we are ready to begin copying the Windows 95 files to our hard drive.

The installation process will begin and inform you once its done. Given that we have much faster hard drives these days and have supplied amble RAM to our machine this would only take a few minutes.

Once the process is done click on Finish to finish with the setup.

If you recall we still have our Windows 95 bootdisk mounted on our floppy drive. In order to avoid booting back into the initial Dos Prompt we will need to remove the floppy disk by selecting the remove disk option from the Devices toolbar.

The virtual machine will then restart and boot into Windows 95 where it will prompt you to create a Username and Password for your machine.

Before completing the setup process it will request you to select the correct timezone and then setup a Printer for the machine.

Once you select the timezone you can simply cancel the Add Printer Wizard.

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The installation will then perform one final restart and boot you into your fresh Windows 95 installation. Congratulations for making it this far.

D. Configuring Windows

Our Windows 95 installation is ready and we can use normally, however if you dive into the display settings you will notice that the color palette is set at 16 colors and the resolution is stuck at 620 x 480 pixels. If we intend to use our Windows installation for applications and games we will need to install the necessary graphics drivers to fix this.

SciTech Display Doctor is a generic display driver for Windows 95 which is supported by VirtualBox and allows you to run Windows 95 with 32-bit colors and 1600×1200 resolution.

Step 12: Mount the downloaded SciTech Display Doctor cd-rom image and install it from Windows 95. Follow the installation instructions and then continue to restart the machine. When SciTech closed down they released free registration numbers for their then-current software, the beta application was not included but you can use the registration information provided on the SciTech download website to register the application.

Step 13: In order to select the installed driver we need to Right Click on the desktop and select the ‘Properties’ option to open the Display Properties, go to the Settings Tab and click on the ‘Change Display Type’ option.

Step 14: From here we will need to change the Adapter Type to ‘SciTech Display Doctor 7.0’ and the Monitor Type to ‘Super VGA 1600×1200’.

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When you select the Adapter Type it will request the SciTech Display drivers. You can find these in C:Program FilesSciTechDisk

Proceed with a Windows restart. If at any point Windows is stuck restarting you can proceed to restart the machine from the VirtualBox toolbar as we did earlier.

Once your machine is restarted you will be able to Right Click on the desktop and select the ‘Properties’ option to open the Display Properties and select the 32bit color depth and change the resolution (Desktop Area) of your Windows95.

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Congratulations your Windows 95 installtion is now ready.

E. Additional Information

Remove Network Password Prompt

You can remove the Network Password Prompt when logging into Windows by navigating to Control Panel -> Network and selecting the ‘Windows Logon’ option from the ‘Primary Network Logon’ dropdown box.

Stop SciTech Display Doctor from opening on start-up

To stop SciTech Display Doctor from opening up everytime you open Windows, open regedit from the Start->Run Menu, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun

and delete the registry entry

“Check for SDD updates”=”C:Program FilesSciTech Display Doctorsddboot.exe”

It’s been much longer between my posts than I’d like. We had a re-org at work a little while back and now I’m up for another position that I’m waiting to hear on. It’s like a desktop administrator position but more.

I have a bit of a nostalgia bug and I found my old copy of Windows 95 a while back. I’ve been wanting to install it in a VM so I could play around with it again and remember old times. I made an ISO from it, mounted it, and attempted an installation. I forgot back then that CD’s weren’t bootable and I didn’t still have the boot disk. I do, however, still have my old Win98 boot disk. I think it has corrupted, however. It wouldn’t matter tho, I don’t think, as I only have an external floppy drive and the software back then didn’t support USB!

So I looked on the net and found some boot disk images. I also did a quick google search to see how complicated it was for other folks. There sure are a lot of folks that had a lot of problems! I found it to be farely simple, to be honest. I did get a few tidbits of info that helped me along in my adventure to figure it out. I’ll have several links at the end of the post. But here’s how I did it:

I’m running VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507 on Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
I have Windows 95 “A” (although the boot disk I found will work for either, I believe)

Boot Disk and Installation CD

  1. If you don’t have the original boot floppy you’ll need to get a copy of the boot disk image from: http://www.allbootdisks.com/
  2. Make an ISO of your Win95 CD and save it somewhere. You can mount this directly in VirtualBox which is nice. If you don’t want to do it that way, you can make another virtual drive and mount it in MagicDisc (another free app)
  3. An alternative is to create a single ISO that includes the boot disk and Win 95. I’ve outlined that below, or you can skip to step 4.
    1. You can also burn both the boot disk and the Win 95 files to the same disc (but this as issues) to make one, bootable CD!
      1. To do this in ImgBurn launch the program and select “Write files/folders to Disk”
      2. On the window that comes up, the left space is where you add the folders and files (don’t forget both, they are separate icons) from the Win 95 CD. The icons are have magnifying glasses over a sheet of paper and one over a folder. I added the files and then each of the folders individually so that they will be at the root of the file structure. Also add the program xcopy!
      1. Click on the “Advanced” tab on the left and then on “Bootable Disc” below that.
      1. Check the box “Make Image Bootable”
      1. Emulation Type: Floppy Disk 1.44MB
      1. Boot Image: add the .img file you downloaded from above.
  4. That should be it for your discs. I highly recommend having two ISO’s and just mounting them in VB, but hopefully the steps above will help you if for some reason you can’t do that
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VirtualBox Setup

  1. Started off by creating a new 5GB VDI Hard disk and making it Windows 95
    1. I configured mine to use 512MB of RAM
  2. BEFORE LAUNCHING THE NEW DISK you need to change some configuration.
    1. Right click on the new VDI in your list and go to Settings
    2. Select System on the left and you can configure your RAM size if you didn’t already. Also change the Boot order so that the CD/DVD-ROM is first
    3. Click on the Acceleration tab and UNCHECK “Enable VT-x/AMD-V”
      1. If you don’t do this step, when you go to boot after installation of Win 95 you’ll hang at a black screen.
    4. Click on Storage on the left so we can add the ISO’s we’ll be using.
    5. Click the icon that has a plus sign over a single disk (not a disk stack) to add a CD/DVD Device
      1. Add the Bootable image FIRST so that it is the primary slave (which is what it will try to boot from)
      1. Then add the Win 95 installation iso
    6. Click OK to save the settings
  3. Launch the new VDI!
  4. PAY ATTENTION to the initial boot screen. It’s going to list two drives right above the A:> prompt.
    1. The first drive letter is your Win 95 installation CD (Mine is set to R:).
    2. The boot disc is automatically mounted to the A: drive.
  5. Since this is a brand new VDI there is no partitioned drive. Win95 setup isn’t capable of creating one so you have to do that.
    1. Type format c: at the prompt and hit [enter]. Type Y for yes when it asks if you’re sure and hit [enter]. You can enter anything for the Volume label.
  6. The Win95 setup doesn’t mount your CD drive after you reboot , thus the continued setup for Windows can’t complete because it cant find the Win95 CD. You’ll get a bunch of dll errors. The OS will still boot but it’s a lot of errors. To fix this we need to copy the Win95 CD to the C drive so we can access it later.
    1. From the A:> prompt type xcopy R: C:WIN95 /S
      1. Remember to substitute R: for the drive letter that yours is.
  7. Now switch to your C: drive to run the setup
    1. Type C: and hit [enter]
    2. Type cd win95 and hit [enter]
    3. Type setup and hit [enter]. It will tell you it has to do a scan before it can install, hit [enter] to proceed.
  8. You should now be in the setup wizard for Win 95. I’ll trust you can follow the prompts from here.
  9. When it prompts you to restart after install is a good time to click on “Devices” and unmount your bootable iso. When I restarted after that I got a boot failure, but I just used “Reset” in the Machine menu to reset the box and then it was fine.
  10. It should then proceed with the usual setup and ask you a bit of input.
  11. After another reboot you should be all set to use Windows 95!

Getting on the Internet

I wasn’t sure if this would work but I was easily able to get on the internet. The bad part is most pages are using code that Internet Explorer 4 can’t render. However, if the site still uses just basic HTML you should be able to render it fine.

  1. Please note you’ll have wanted to install the virtual networking driver when you initially installed VirtualBox on your machine.
  2. Launch the “The Internet” icon
  3. Select to connect via your LAN
  4. Use DHCP
  5. Your DNS server will be your router IP
  6. Your Gateway will be your router IP
  7. Save it and reboot like it says

One “old school html” page you can load to try it out is www.bootdisk.com

And that’s it!

I did a lot of trial and error trying to figure out the best way to make the ISO’s and mount. It wasn’t until I got the xcopy idea that it all became beautifully simple. But if I had looked in the first place, I would have seen xcopy was part of the downloaded boot image all along : It was fun though!

Here are the links where I got a few tidbits of info to help me along:

http://www.sevenforums.com/virtualization/10121-installing-windows-95-virtualbox-5.html (this is really the only one that helped me)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=533611 (sort of, it pointed me in a different direction which made me realize I needed to pursue a different path)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awo948eU_eE (I tried installing DOS 7.1 first but didn’t want to mess around with mounting my drive)






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