Find a Windows 95 Bootdisk (.img file) and a Windows 95 ISO. (I use version 4.00.950.) Image 2. Download these softwares: UltraISO.
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If you do anyway, it will be deleted without further notice. This also applies to other members: If you see a request by someone with less than 10 posts and it hasn't been deleted yet, please don't reply to it. Don't request for warez or any copyrighted software.
Only betas (no matter how old or new) and finals of operating systems and applications that are at least 10 years old and therefore classified as abandonware are allowed to be uploaded to and shared on the BetaArchive FTP server. If you have your own FTP server where you'd like other members to upload what you're looking for to, please don't post its login details in any open forum as that will probably lead to abuse. Post the login details in the Private Servers section instead. Check that we don't already have the file on our FTP servers. If you don't have access to the FTP servers then ask someone who has (a moderator for example). Tested on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with Service Pack 1,worked fine. Here is what you are looking for: This ISO is not authentic, files dated 20 June 2003 and bootable part is self-made.
I suppose most of this 2003 year ISOs which can be found on net was made from 'All Windows DVD' release by XiSO team. It have a really impressive list of full Windows distributives but all files dated by Jule 2003 (I suppose that there was another version of this DVD from June 2003 too). And as far as I know no one of Windows 95 CDs was not bootable since BIOSes of those time simply not supported CD Boot feature. Although I'm sure that at least 95 Retail should be delivered with a bootable floppy disk, otherwise how else to install it on the new PC? And I, like the topicstarter, don't lose hope to find such floppy disk. Does anyone have it?
I'll have to check but I could have sworn one of my copies of Win 95 booted from CD. Though the typical way I'd install would be to boot up the Windows 95 boot floppy (it's the same one as the floppy set) which loads up the CDROM drivers, and you simply change over to the CD drive and run setup. 
Since you are trying to run this in a Virtual Machine this would probably be the simplest way rather than looking for an uncommon or 3rd party bootable CD. The disks are quite common to find on BootDisk sites. El-torito as a standard did not come in until 1995, and it would have taken vendors about a year or so to modify their systems. You don't start seeing bootable cdroms until 1996. (Win98, WinNT4). The two examples of OS/R2 in my collection are not bootable. One might see that Microsoft learnt from Windows NT4 to put a 'press any key to boot from the CD'.
I recall having been called to the museum to fix a computer that accidently booted into Windows NT4 boot, and cheerly installed itself over the existing system. Win98, Win2k and later have variously JO.SYS and FIXBOOT.BIN, which both serve to create this message.
These work under 3.51 and 4.0 Last edited by on Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:25 am, edited 1 time in total. El-torito as a standard did not come in until 1995, and it would have taken vendors about a year or so to modify their systems. Yes, that's clear, main problem was in lack of El Torito support in systems of those days, but there was another problem related to bootable floppy with cd-rom support. As far as I know at that time there was no universal cd-rom drivers and every such boot floppy disk was intended for a limited number of systems. For OEM editions of Windows 95 it was not problem as each OEM release was intended strictly for certain equipment, but how about Windows 95 Retail edition? It also was coming with boot floppy disk and nobody was preparing it for particular systems. How was supposed to clients use it?
Also I've found image of OSR 2.x boot floppy. It was included in Windows 95 OEM Pre-installation Kit (file WIN95_OPKIE.ISO) and located in folder LANG ENG CDSTART under name BOOTDISK.IMG, but os2fan2 will confirm that w/o little modification it's useless as it lacks CD-ROM driver which should to be added manually. Is detailed instruction how to do it. Ready boot disks mentioned at page can be downloaded from.
And you can get some CD-ROM drivers if you will need, although probably better to use universal driver D011V200.SYS from Oak Technology, Inc., mentioned. I remember when we started selling PCs from Packard Bell in our stores with Win95 on them. They came with an install/restore CD but with a floppy boot disk without CD rom drivers or rather they were not automatically activated! So no customer was able to use the CDs. I could not believe how stupid the ppl at Packard Bell were to make such a mistake. After a few weeks the first customers came back asking us how they should use the CD disk.
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Find a Windows 95 Bootdisk (.img file) and a Windows 95 ISO. (I use version 4.00.950.) Image 2. Download these softwares: UltraISO.
Forum rules Please read the following rules before posting a download request in this area: 1. Don't post a request if you have under 10 posts as stated on the front page.
If you do anyway, it will be deleted without further notice. This also applies to other members: If you see a request by someone with less than 10 posts and it hasn't been deleted yet, please don't reply to it. Don't request for warez or any copyrighted software.
Only betas (no matter how old or new) and finals of operating systems and applications that are at least 10 years old and therefore classified as abandonware are allowed to be uploaded to and shared on the BetaArchive FTP server. If you have your own FTP server where you'd like other members to upload what you're looking for to, please don't post its login details in any open forum as that will probably lead to abuse. Post the login details in the Private Servers section instead. Check that we don't already have the file on our FTP servers. If you don't have access to the FTP servers then ask someone who has (a moderator for example). Tested on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with Service Pack 1,worked fine. Here is what you are looking for: This ISO is not authentic, files dated 20 June 2003 and bootable part is self-made.
I suppose most of this 2003 year ISOs which can be found on net was made from 'All Windows DVD' release by XiSO team. It have a really impressive list of full Windows distributives but all files dated by Jule 2003 (I suppose that there was another version of this DVD from June 2003 too). And as far as I know no one of Windows 95 CDs was not bootable since BIOSes of those time simply not supported CD Boot feature. Although I'm sure that at least 95 Retail should be delivered with a bootable floppy disk, otherwise how else to install it on the new PC? And I, like the topicstarter, don't lose hope to find such floppy disk. Does anyone have it?
I'll have to check but I could have sworn one of my copies of Win 95 booted from CD. Though the typical way I'd install would be to boot up the Windows 95 boot floppy (it's the same one as the floppy set) which loads up the CDROM drivers, and you simply change over to the CD drive and run setup.
Since you are trying to run this in a Virtual Machine this would probably be the simplest way rather than looking for an uncommon or 3rd party bootable CD. The disks are quite common to find on BootDisk sites. El-torito as a standard did not come in until 1995, and it would have taken vendors about a year or so to modify their systems. You don't start seeing bootable cdroms until 1996. (Win98, WinNT4). The two examples of OS/R2 in my collection are not bootable. One might see that Microsoft learnt from Windows NT4 to put a 'press any key to boot from the CD'.
I recall having been called to the museum to fix a computer that accidently booted into Windows NT4 boot, and cheerly installed itself over the existing system. Win98, Win2k and later have variously JO.SYS and FIXBOOT.BIN, which both serve to create this message.
These work under 3.51 and 4.0 Last edited by on Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:25 am, edited 1 time in total. El-torito as a standard did not come in until 1995, and it would have taken vendors about a year or so to modify their systems. Yes, that's clear, main problem was in lack of El Torito support in systems of those days, but there was another problem related to bootable floppy with cd-rom support. As far as I know at that time there was no universal cd-rom drivers and every such boot floppy disk was intended for a limited number of systems. For OEM editions of Windows 95 it was not problem as each OEM release was intended strictly for certain equipment, but how about Windows 95 Retail edition? It also was coming with boot floppy disk and nobody was preparing it for particular systems. How was supposed to clients use it?
Also I've found image of OSR 2.x boot floppy. It was included in Windows 95 OEM Pre-installation Kit (file WIN95_OPKIE.ISO) and located in folder LANG ENG CDSTART under name BOOTDISK.IMG, but os2fan2 will confirm that w/o little modification it's useless as it lacks CD-ROM driver which should to be added manually. Is detailed instruction how to do it. Ready boot disks mentioned at page can be downloaded from.
And you can get some CD-ROM drivers if you will need, although probably better to use universal driver D011V200.SYS from Oak Technology, Inc., mentioned. I remember when we started selling PCs from Packard Bell in our stores with Win95 on them. They came with an install/restore CD but with a floppy boot disk without CD rom drivers or rather they were not automatically activated! So no customer was able to use the CDs. I could not believe how stupid the ppl at Packard Bell were to make such a mistake. After a few weeks the first customers came back asking us how they should use the CD disk.