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windows xp to 95

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  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    If you have access to a CD writer, and a floppy drive on a different machine, you could grab a boot floppy image with CD support from bootdisk.com, and then create a bootable CD using nero, roxio, or magiciso boot from that, then put the win95 CD in and run setup.
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • thomas01155
    thomas01155 Posts: 2,382 Forumite
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    i dont no whitch ones are bootable from disk they only say floppy
  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    This has to be done on a machine with a floppy and cd writer..

    http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

    Select a 95 one, run it, create the floppy disk

    Then use your burning utils to create a bootable CD from it.
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • thomas01155
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    ok so i open it put it on a floppy take it off the floppy do i burn it as a image on nero or as a bottable disk.
  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    yes......
    , you need to run the exe to create the floppy boot disk though.

    you could also put the win95*.cabs on there to make things a bit easier..
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • thomas01155
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    put it on the floppy disk now do i burn it to cd as bootable or data
  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    bootable,.. did you run the exe to create the floppy disk?
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • thomas01155
    thomas01155 Posts: 2,382 Forumite
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    yep just burning
  • thomas01155
    thomas01155 Posts: 2,382 Forumite
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    on nero it ask me to insert a floppy disk to make a bootable one
  • albertross_2
    albertross_2 Posts: 8,932 Forumite
    use the disk you have created..

    Older PC's didn't support booting from CD btw, so this may not work!
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
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