With my old 486 laptop running windows 95, i have an IDE hard drive running on it.
When i take it out and i boot it up, of course it sais insert boot cd.
but if i put an IDE cd-rom in place of the hdd and boot off a dos or win 95 boot, can i put in a old dos cd-rom and play it if it has no install require :blink: :help: ment?

1. You err... take the hard drive out of your laptop (why on earth???).
2. You boot from CD-ROM/Bootdisk
3. After boot you remove the CD-rom and put in another one and play a game of it
4. It works.
5. You're ... surprised?

This is the way it has always worked. In the old days when PC's didn't have harddrive's you'd boot from a floppy containing the OS. AFter boot this would reside in memory and you swapped the disks to start your program/game.

yeah i knew dat.
I have the windows 95 cd-rom and boot disk, and can get all versions of boot disks at www.bootdisk.com
So when you boot from the Windows 95 cd-rom is it like the real one or the ms-dos 1? :blink: :sick:

I don't even remember any more, I rarely used windows 95 (still prefered DOS till windows 98), but I am sure that it was not DOS 1. If I remember correctly it was DOS 6.11

thanks i just didnt know you could boot win 95 from a cd

and im not bloody stupid :tomato: <<u

However, you do have a slightly irritating habit of double-posting... And Reup just misunderstood you there. Your initial post wasn't exactly lucid, you see.:)

well im not the one who always shuts down peoples threads you know

But you are the one who makes topics that shouldn't be there. :)

well troubleshooting and compatibility are basicly the same thing

Not at all...

I have a suggestion - get a two-device IDE cable and patch it to your laptop. This way you can both attach a CD-Rom drive AND a HDD.

Yeah do what the fifth horseman said to do.and i thought booting of a 95 origanal version disk was dos 7.0 and from then after dos 7.1.

Why dosen't your laptop have a CD drive anyway? How on earth did they install your OS on it? I'm quite sure Win95 didn't come on floppies, and Im not sure your laptop even has a floppy drive...

Maybe it used to have a CD drive, but it had to be surgically removed. :whistle:

ACtualy, I am sure that there was a diskettes version of windows 95, but it was quickly replaced completely by the cd version.

I wonder how many diskettes THAT was...

This whole thing about DOS versions started up because wade can't be bothered to type whole words:
So continuing about DOS 6.1 or 7.0 is irrelevant :P

yeah they did make windows 95 on floppies it was on 40 3/5 disks. i have the win95 cd installed and copyied to the hard drive by taking out the hard drive, putting it in a hdd usb case and running it through my desktop pc.
And no i dont even have room in it 4 a slim cd rom that is why im patching a full size one externally. and with the dos thingy i was just asking becuase booting from the cd i didnt know if it was like the floppy boot or what. i kno know that its like the floppie. and i can be bothered typing out words, i prefer dos than 95

Windows 95 on 40 floppies? Dont think so. I have it and it is 12 floppies. Plus one for the boot disk. So 13 floppies altogether if you count the boot disk.

UNLUCKY number 13 you could say........

weird they have it on 40 on ebay aus just type in winows 95 floppie

sorry i think it was 12 floppies.
i just looked at me hdd and it aint ide! its some smaler one i dont know of :ranting:

Ack, a nim-wit with computers :(

Someone selling a 40 floppy set of win95 has taken the time to duplicate the CD onto floppies. This person is incredibly stupid.

I suggest getting a serial adapter and connecting that to another computer and using it's CD drive as a shared networking device.

Also, a small cable can still be an IDE... the difference can be the ATA form it is using, or the fact that it is a Laptop. Laptops use tiny cables instead of the normal cables that desktops use because of the condensed size.

I would just go and get a new(er) laptop that atleast has a USB port on it. That way you can plug in a CD drive if you are confused with other cables.

I think I saw a 40-floppy '95 version. The OS itself might be only 12, but there is a number of other tools coming on the rest.