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Solve : Anyway to install Windows95 on computer running XP??

Answer» <html><body><p>10 year old IBM ThinkPad runs Windows95 with special Chinese input program. It is acting up. Have 20 or so <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/3-236794" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 3">3</a>.5 inch Win95 disk. Is it <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/possible-592355" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POSSIBLE">POSSIBLE</a> to put Win95 on a new partition or a flash drive and dual boot a newer IBM ThinkPad with WinXP so I can continue to use Wind95 without having to learn a new character input program? Any insight/pointer on how to do it and what to look out for? Start with this:<br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table</a><br/>Read carefully.<br/>Windrows 95 OS2 has a internal 32 bit <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/file-11330" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FILE">FILE</a> system but reduced to a much lower piratical partition size. Windows 95 must be first physical partition on the disk and conform to a limit of 2 GB. It may not be possible to put Windows XP on the same drive. You will have to research that.<br/>It may be more piratical to locate an old PC with your version of 95 already installed.Computer may not boot Win95 if too much memory is present. Use Windows Virtual PC: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx</a>Thanks. I have downloaded Virtual PC 2004 SP1 which can set up Windows 95. I created the VM with a formatted virtual <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hd-1016349" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HD">HD</a>. I went on to install the Windows 95 (a total of 20 plus 3.5 inch disks). It went through Disk 1 and showed 2% completed on the installation bar. Then it asked for Disk2 which I put in. I got the following error message: "Could ot find specified script (.CAB) file. Setup cannot continue". Running a directory on Disk2 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/shows-1206590" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SHOWS">SHOWS</a> "Precopy2.CAB" on it. What is happening? Disk1 has "precopy1.CAB" on it.Floppy disks don't last forever, 16 yrs is a long time depending on how they were stored.Try a PC emulator. Bochs or Microsoft Virtual PC are the best options for Windows 95 systems.Quote from: Experimental Technology on March 18, 2011, 09:16:54 AM</p><blockquote>Try a PC emulator. Bochs or Microsoft Virtual PC are the best options for Windows 95 systems.<br/></blockquote>See Reply #3.</body></html>


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