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Win95 install to 64 bit Windows 10 shows floppy drive but not dvd

Open rwendt42 opened this issue 6 years ago • 9 comments

I have software that is on a dvd I would like to install but that doesn't show up in file manager for win95.

Is there a way to run a dvd in win95?

rwendt42 avatar Feb 19 '19 18:02 rwendt42

Did you happen to find a solution, rwendt42? I have the same problem.

LiquidGravity avatar Apr 08 '19 03:04 LiquidGravity

No. I didn’t run across a solution. Hope you find one.

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Did you happen to find a solution, rwendt42? I have the same problem.

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rwendt42 avatar Apr 08 '19 12:04 rwendt42

Why dont you just copy the contents of the DVD to a folder on your PC, then use Windows Explorer to browse the contents from the Win95 emulator? Are you sure it's a DVD and/or Win95 compatible? DVDs were not supported until Win98SE --and even then it was limited and required patches.

jjamez avatar Apr 08 '19 16:04 jjamez

Thanks for your reply, rwnedt42. I think jjamez has a worthy solution. Crossing my fingers...

That explains it, jjamez. I'll do what you suggested. It's actually a cd-rom, but I'll just copy the files and see if I can get that to work.

LiquidGravity avatar Apr 08 '19 18:04 LiquidGravity

Better yet... I've installed Oracle VM Virtualbox. That works much better than this app, which is interesting but isn't as robust as I was hoping.

LiquidGravity avatar Apr 08 '19 18:04 LiquidGravity

I have the same problem. I just can't get data into the emulator. I don't see any of my PC files when in Windows 95 and all it has is afloppy disc wand I don't have a drive. How on earth do I get my software which I want to run onto the Win95 partition? I don't see this on my own PC they appear quite separate in all respects

Rodbry avatar Jun 17 '19 16:06 Rodbry

I’ve never found a solution and have given up on it.

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I have the same problem. I just can't get data into the emulator. I don't see any of my PC files when in Windows 95 and all it has is afloppy disc wand I don't have a drive. How on earth do I get my software which I want to run onto the Win95 partition? I don't see this on my own PC they appear quite separate in all respects

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rwendt42 avatar Jun 17 '19 22:06 rwendt42

Out of curiosity - Has anybody tried creating a separate FAT32 partition for use with Win95? I presume alot of issues with locating the physical storage space may be because they are stored in NTFS format, which is not recognizable by any Windows OS before WinXP

blackstonespecs avatar Oct 18 '19 20:10 blackstonespecs

Out of curiosity - Has anybody tried creating a separate FAT32 partition for use with Win95? I presume alot of issues with locating the physical storage space may be because they are stored in NTFS format, which is not recognizable by any Windows OS before WinXP

might be possible BUT MS-DOS is only 16-bit, which means you need to reserve a 16-bit space for msdos as MS-DOS is required to boot the computer.

ghost avatar Aug 27 '20 10:08 ghost