I am trying to set up Windows 95 on a VM using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with a 8 GB VHD. Everything works fine until it finishes setup, but it when it tries to start Windows for the first time, it says, “While initializing device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.”
I have tried booting up in safe mode and have formatted the VHD and reinstalled it several times, but I can’t figure out why it won’t work. It worked fine once before, but the hard drive it was on went bad, so I have to set it up again.
Thank you for any help/solutions.
I wrote a script to automate this and created bootable floppy/cd images to do so. See this thread at MSFN:
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141…
Also of note, one of the people who tested my patch was using Windows 95 in Virtual PC and had some input specific to that application. Begins at post # 44 on page 3.
Good luck!