installing wondows 95 on an xp system, drive won't format or change from ntfs to fat

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Lewroy

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Hiya,
Here is the current specs for my computer,

Microsoft windows xp proffessional,
service pack 3

intel pentium 4 cpu 3.00GHz
512mb RAM

Basicly i want the computer to run with a windows 95 OS instead of xp, (i have both startup cd's)

i've tried different ways of formatting my hard drive,
(booting from xp disk, starting recovery console, giving correct command promps to start format of drive c while changing storage type from ntfs to fat and when the format is completed i exit console start my computer and xp is still running with all my files still saved)

i also tried this with the computer running in xp by clicking my computer and trying to format the hard drive manually but it gives an error message saying "unable to complete format"

Am i being stupid and doing this wrong or is a problem of it not being possible on my current setup?
if anyone could help me or come to any solution as to how i can get 95 running it would be very much appreciated
 
I doubt you will get 95 installed especially if this is a sata hard drive. Also, you probably won't get all the drivers installed. Did this system previously have windows 95 installed?
 
Windows 95 won't run on a CPU faster than 2.1GHz I found out from a Google search (but I thought the limit was around about 400MHz? I may have been wrong), so that's going to be your first issue. Also Windows 95 does not support SATA hard disks and it doesn't support disks larger than 32GB (I don't think there is large disk support like there was in 98), so you'd have to partition your drive into multiple 30GB partitions. Not sure why you want to run Windows 95 on this PC anyway? If you want to run legacy Windows on your machine, then I'd probably go for Windows 2000.
 
strollin said:
You can run Win 95 very nicely within a VM. I have Win 95 running in a VM using VMWare Player.
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From my experience VMware + Windows 95 = pain in installing VMware tools (no networking/internet driver IIRC) but once you're there it works good. You'd probably be better off using 95 in VMware over VirtualBox or Virtual PC though because VirtualBox and VPC don't have support for 95 IIRC, and VMware does (although as I said, installing VMware Tools can be a pain). VMware Player is also free.
 
I remember being so excited going from 3.1 to Windows 95... I agree with cabinfever, you could pick up a lower end system for nothing and dedicate that to 95. I see lower end computers all the time at the local Salvation Army and Goodwills that work for $20 or less.
 
thanks for your help guys it means alot,

it was to run a program that could only run on 95 for our small bussiness and to upgrade the software to one that runs on xp or windows 7 costs over £1000....and needless to say we dont have.

thanks again anyway for your time im sure we'l think of a solution.
 
vistakid10 said:
From my experience VMware + Windows 95 = pain in installing VMware tools (no networking/internet driver IIRC) but once you're there it works good. You'd probably be better off using 95 in VMware over VirtualBox or Virtual PC though because VirtualBox and VPC don't have support for 95 IIRC, and VMware does (although as I said, installing VMware Tools can be a pain). VMware Player is also free.
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Can't say I recall VMTools being that difficult to install but I think I had to install a sound card driver as the one supplied with VMWare didn't work with Win 95.
 
strollin said:
Can't say I recall VMTools being that difficult to install but I think I had to install a sound card driver as the one supplied with VMWare didn't work with Win 95.
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It was a pain to install. Firstly the video drivers wouldn't work (found a way around that), then the sound wouldn't work and then there was no internet support. I tried installing in VMware Workstation 7.1 or 8.0 (can't remember now, probably 7.1) and it just wasn't having it.
 
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