I have Windows 95 on floppies and my computer's A: drive dosn't work. So I need to install windows on a cd-rom. How do I do this? Thanks

That would be very tricky. Why not beg, steal or borrow a floppy drive. You probably can pick up a used one for a couple of bucks.

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This is a tough I dont believe you can do anything now. Without a floppy drive there no way to get the idata to burn. Why not just borrow from a friend, I would glad loan you my floppy drive if possible.. =]

I'm surprise you dont know anyone that has 95 on CD. I come across them cds quite often.. hee hee hee

On the CD-Rom you’ll see a folder called win95,
Just drag and drop the folder to the HDD,
Them burn the folder to CD-R,
To load back,
use a Win 95 Boot-disk with CD support,
Type D:\ enter
D:\>cd win95 enter
D:\win95>setup enter.

Win 95 on floppies? I haven't seen too many of those and I'd "guess" it to be the "A" version of Win95 and not the "B" version. I do not recommend the "A" version for several reasons.

In my professional opinion (ah screw it... it's just *my* opinion to the rest of the world) you should shell out the $40 for an OSR 2 B version of Win95 with USB support (go to ebay for it). Once you install that and download and install the Windows update patches from Microsoft's site, you'll be in much better shape than if you suffered through the "A" version's memory leaks, crashes, poor performance, etc.

One little quirk is that I found some of the "pre-setup" boot disks to have the older FDISK and no FAT32 support (!?!?). Win95 "B" will handle FAT32 but you want to FDISK it that way first. This brings up a good point:

You're kinda screwed.

If you don't have a FAT32 OS already on your hard drive then you can't FDISK that way since your floppy is out. If you *do* have a FAT32 OS (which I'd guess not since you are talking about a WIN95 install) then you'd need a Windows upgrade CD, not a full install.

I'd be replacing that A: drive!

Len

First despite what everybody says(including M$) you can have USB support using w95a by adding couple usb support files. Others have posted about this. It does work. You do need a motherboard that can support usb though.

Second according to the official M$ "readme" file on disk one of the floppy install, you can either install floppy by floppy OR you can copy all the floppy files to the hardrive and run install there. I tried copying them to a cd-r and running setup from cdrom. Setup installed and ran but it then kept asking for disk 2 without giving me a chance to tell it to look on the cd-r. I just copied files from cd-r to hardrive, ran install and it worked fine. By way cd-r is good way to store w95 floppy files. Those dang floppies corrupt from age especially with that goofy M$ formatting.

But jeez, a basic floppy drive as others have said is only couple bucks used(around $10 brand new) or free off junk computer and you do use them every once in a while for other things.