Windows install.ima from floppy - posted in Windows 95/98/ME: I am trying to install Windows 95 using Oracle Virtual Box on Windows 7 64 Home and. I can get you as far as creating a bootable Windows 95 iso file but as far as doing anything in Virutal Box, I do not have any experience with that program.

Your boot sector probably got corrupted and its asking you to insert the install disk in order for it to repair itself. This shouldn't result in data loss BUT you should always back up just in case. If you haven't backed up or hadn't done a recent enough one, then on a friend's computer who has a CD burner, read up on how to download a copy of a Linux distribution like Xubuntu. I recommend burning the ISO file as an image onto a cd and then boot from the CD drive.

Bootable Windows 95 CD - posted in Windows 3x/9x: I just recently acquired a fairly old PC that was running Windows 98. I figured I'd take a little nostalgia trip and. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on(.). USB disk, useful for Windows installation on netbooks and other devices without. CD/DVD drive. Boot supports USB flash thumbdrives and USB hard disks. Boot has many other features. Demo Version vs Full Version. Limitations of the demo.

You'll load an operating system similar to windows XP. Connect a USB Drive and backup your data. Then you can shutdown Xubuntu and insert your install disk for XP and attempt to repair it. If you don't have an install disk, download one from a torrent site. You already paid for a license for XP and your only using it to repair your boot sector so there's nothing wrong with that. If your attempt to repair fails, just boot from the Xubuntu disk again and check to see if everything works like your Internet card and your sound card. Install Xubuntu if it works.

It will be supported beyond 2014 unlike windows XP. If your computer came with XP then it's most likely going to have hardware that's good enough to run something lightweight like Xubuntu or Lubuntu. I use Gentoo programed on a bootable disc to do a total image but that's more in the technical realm. I found Seagate backups to not be so good & not include many of my installed softwares. The thing I wanted to say about doing back ups etc is that they don't save your installed software that you downloaded from the internet for example. I discovered this the hard way when I had a small problem with my old XP. I had aprox 70 extra softwares that I needed to get all the details for before I could do a back up or image.

Dudley Perkins A Lil Light Zippered. Details such as licence number, date of original installation, company I purchased from, etc. It was a nightmare. I have also solved 'system disc' issues by checking all cables inside the machine, clearing out the fluff & dust then checking cables again, checking the bios boot sequence because there was a major update (which of course won't happen anymore). I know this bit isn't system related but worth mentioning here. As XP ages & softwares you have reliant on it require updates, they may begin to show signs of unusual activity & try to fix themselves too by asking for their disc to be installed. I know this for sure because I have both old & new laptops sitting side by side & certain softwares work fine on the old XP but need the disc to work on the Win7 laptop.

If I have been using those softwares on the Win7 machine it remembers that I was using that software at the next boot & asks for the disc. I have to ignore that message until boot up is complete then it goes away.