Windows 95 CD + Floppy disk Help

So sorry to hear yours is floppy

They take you back in time without needing a flux capacitor.

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If memory serves right, the CD is for installing Windows and the disquete is for booting when the OS doesn't starts, it was kind of an issue.

Thanks for Skyr... Thanks for the memories.

As Axelflox said, the cd is an installation for the Windows 95 Operating System. The floppy disc is a boot disc which allowed you to boot your computer up if you needed to trouble shoot. Back in the day you would make a boot disc for games so you wouldn't load windows. You would load to DOS and play. Still wishing for a remake of Wings of Glory. Fantastic DOS WWI air combat game.

Nice find op. I thought it's about win95 copy that came on diskettes. That was real hell to install it :)

Who were the idiots that picked MAC in poll? xD

Remember that back then, CDs were not bootable, if you wanted to install a new OS, you had to first boot with a floppy, so that the computer would load the needed drivers that then in turn would allow it to read the CD. So if you wanted to install Windows 95, you would insert the boot disk, let it boot, then run the installer on the CD from DOS (it would not boot up the OS). There were ways to make your computer boot up in DOS from Windows back then, so you did not really "need" a disk in order to play DOS games that did not work well in windows.

i installed it on Windows virtual pc 2007 and it gives me Windows protection error

Wait, are you using a mac?

cause if not, you can use microsoft windows emulator for it.

and why on god names (not religious) do you need win95?
win98 was way better :D

and again, Where's Linux option?

I still have both win 95 and 98 .also win 3.1

- is it Windows or MAC?
- YES!!

The floppy disc is only needed, if the computer in question does not support booting from a CD-ROM. The floppy disc contains drivers for the CD-drive and a copy of the setup program to start the installation of Windows 95.

Not to be confused, a similar set of floppy discs (rescue discs) can be produced to troubleshoot your Windows 95 system. In the pre-USB era, the floppy disc was THE external rewritable medium for the PC.