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To do this, click Input > Keyboard > Insert Ctrl-Alt-Del in VirtualBox. You’ll be told you have to restart your virtual machine before continuing. You can just press “Enter” three times after launching fdisk to create a DOS partition, create a primary partition, and agree that you want to use the maximum size of the drive and make the partition active. You just need to accept the default options to go through the fdisk process. You’ll be starting with an empty drive, so you just want to create a DOS partition. Type the following command at the prompt and press Enter: fdisk The key is displayed at the bottom right corner of the virtual machine window.įirst, you’ll need to partition the virtual drive you created. Note that the virtual machine will capture your keyboard and mouse once you click inside it, but you can press the host key-that’s the right Ctrl key on your keyboard, by default-to free your input and use your PC’s desktop normally. You can now just double-click the Windows 95 virtual machine in your library to boot it up.

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Browse to your Windows 95 ISO file and select it.Ĭlick “OK” to save your settings when you’re done. img file and select it.įinally, click the Empty disc drive under the IDE controller, click the disc icon to the right of Optical Drive, and click “Choose Virtual Optical DIsk File”. Click the floppy disk button to the right of Floppy Drive and click “Choose Virtual Floppy Disk File” in the menu. Next, click the “Storage” category and select the virtual drive under the Floppy controller.

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If you leave this option enabled, you’ll be able to install Windows 95, but it will just show a black screen when it boots up afterwards. Right-click your Windows 95 virtual machine and select “Settings”.Ĭlick the “System” category, click the “Acceleration” tab, and uncheck “Enable VT-x/AMD-V” hardware virtualization. First, you’ll need to change a few settings. So, if you were using this version of Windows 95, you could theoretically use up to 32 GB of space.ĭon’t boot up the machine right after you’re finished creating it. Windows 95b (aka OSR2), which was only released to device manufactures and never sold at retail, does support FAT32. The retail versions of Windows 95 only support the FAT16 file system, which means they can’t use drives over 2 GB in size. VirtualBox will automatically suggest 2.0 GB, and you probably don’t want to go over that. You could split the difference and safely use 256 MB, which would be more than enough for old Windows 95 applications.Ĭontinue through the wizard until you’re prompted to create your virtual hard disk. VirtualBox recommends 64 MB, while official Microsoft blog The Old New Thing claims that Windows 95 won’t boot if it has more than around 480 MB of memory. If you name it “Windows 95”, VirtualBox will automatically choose the correct Windows version.Ĭhoose how much RAM you want to expose to your virtual machine. Once you have VirtualBox installed, click the “New” button to create a new virtual machine.Įnter whatever name you like and select “Windows 95” from the Version box.

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You can do it in other virtual machine programs like VMware, but the process of configuring the virtual machine software will be a little different. We’ll be doing this in VirtualBox, which is completely free to use and available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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RELATED: Beginner Geek: How to Create and Use Virtual Machines Windows 95b (also known as Windows 95 OSR2) was only available to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), so any Windows 95 disc you have lying around will either by the original Windows 95 release (also known as Windows 95 RTM) or the Windows 95a release (also known as Windows 95 OSR1), which came with Service Pack 1 installed. You will probably just need to download the “Windows95a.img” file. Once you’ve got your Windows 95 ISO file, you can download a boot diskette image from AllBootDisks. So start digging through those old drawers of yours. While ISO files of Windows 95 are available online, bear in mind that Windows 95 is still under Microsoft copyright, and can’t be legally downloaded from the web.

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If you have an old Windows 95 CD lying around, you can insert it into your PC and create an ISO file from it. You must first boot into an MS-DOS environment from a Windows 95 boot disk, which would have been a floppy disk at the time, to get the installation started. Unlike modern operating systems, the Windows 95 installation disc isn’t bootable. You’ll need two things for this: A Windows 95 ISO file and a Windows 95 boot disk image.

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