It’s quite unlikely you’ll find Win95 listed there.)Īs to why the old CDs wouldn’t install under Win7 or Win10, it sounds like you probably have a 64-bit version (the most common) of Windows. The drop-down will show all Windows OS’s for which drivers are available. Click “Drivers & downloads” in the left pane, and “Change OS” in the right pane. (You didn’t say which model you bought, but you can do a driver check by going to and entering the Service Tag from the sticker on your machine, or alternatively, finding your model under “Browse for a product”. ![]() In addition, you’ll probably have great difficulty finding Win95 drivers for the new machine’s hardware. For one thing, Win95 could only support a maximum hard disk size of 8GB, and your machine’s hard disk is much larger than that. Let’s put some of those issues to bed right away: do not attempt to install Win95 on your new machine as a single or dualboot OS. Your inquiry covers several different issues, Keith: how to install Win95, how to dualboot, how to use VirtualBox, and why the old CDs wouldn’t install under Win7/10. The PC didn’t come with a Windows 7 installation disc, either.Ĭan anyone solve this dilemma for me? What would you do, short of just trashing Windows 10 and 7 and making the PC a Windows 95 PC that would only play the old games and not much else? I would be eternally thankful…. Unfortunately, if I had to reinstall Windows 10 I wouldn’t be able to, because I didn’t save the installation files and the deadline has passed. I do have backups, both before and after upgrading to Windows 10. However, in researching this, I read that unless I installed the older operating system first, it would screw things up, because, in this case, Windows 95 doesn’t how the way things are organized on the disk drive for Windows 10. I’d just create a dual boot system to run either Windows 10 or Windows 95. The suggestion was made to install from floppy. I discovered that to install an OS to a VirtualBox machine, the OS disk needs to autoboot. However, when I put the Windows 95 DVD in, nothing happened. ![]() I downloaded VirtualBox and installed it, then installed a Windows 95 virtual machine in the machine manager. My immediate solution (I thought) was to buy a copy of Windows 95 and install it on a virtual machine running under Windows 10. I thought that whatever I might do to install Windows 95 would work as well under Windows 10 as under Windows 7. And yes, I did try all the emulation modes they didn’t help.īecause the free Windows 10 deadline was rapidly coming up, I went ahead and installed it. ![]() Unfortunately, when I tried the old discs on it, very few of them would install. This was really nice because I’ve had only a laptop for the last couple of years and I would now have a desktop I could use when the kids weren’t here. The one I bought is a decent used Dell that I got from a reputable local business. My wife finally talked me into buying a new computer so our autistic granddaughter can play the games that she loved to play on the old PC. I don’t remember which OS it was running, but all the old game disks we have say “Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows 98SE”. We used to have an old computer the grand-kids used to play games, and a few months ago it finally bit the dust. I really hope someone has a solution for me. I am in the midst of a crisis (“crisis” meaning I’m really frustrated).
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