On 12 February 2014 10:14, Margret Rosenberg
<margret.rosenberg at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi, guys. I have some very old programs that require
Win 95 to run, and I've been trying to use Virtual Box to do that. I installed
Virtual Box on my new Windows 8.1 computer, but when I tried to install Win 95 it refused
to recognize my perfectly good Win 95 installation disk (with a valid licensing code) as a
real O.S..
Note that Win95 predates the era of bootable CDs on PCs. The CD is not
bootable. It's just a disk of files. You'll need a bootable floppy
disk image to start the VM from.
So now I'm back to my old Windows 7 laptop. I
downloaded the latest version of Virtual Box, which says it's for both 32-bit and
64-bit versions of Windows, but when I tried to install itWindows said it wasn't a
valid 32-bit program. Does anyone know which version I need?
AFAICS there is a single binary for both versions of Windows. Might
you have had a bad download? It's pretty big.
And does anyone know how to make it recognize my old
Win 95 installation disk as a valid OS?
Boot from a floppy image.
http://www.bootdisk.com/ is a good source if you don't have any (but
has some intrusive advertising, sadly).
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