How to Install Windows 95 in 86Box, the Right Way (486 Emulator) (2024) (ISO in desc)

[@Ben_C01]

After struggling with the nuances of 86Box I found this video and it was an incredibly helpful one - thank you for your service, Sir!

[@nathancruz9172]

15:55 I remember when, I first used the windows 95 as a toddler.

[@aaronferrell4721]

I remember I had to type 'win' in DOS to boot a windows... I had some dos games at the time, so sometimes I didn't want windows to automatically load itself.

[@ILikeSlugs]

@@aaronferrell4721 Me who only remembers windows 7:

[@rid1coza]

This is awesome, thanks! 10:55 - My win95 machine kept freezing when loading the boot disk image, I eventually figured out that it was 0 bytes in size because firefx silently blocked it as malicious! I redownloaded it and allowed the download!

[@rid1coza]

This was really a great video i watched it from the 1st second all the way to the last, even though my ISO didnt have PLUS . Your voice is also great for these kind of videos, it's calming and definitely not annoying. Love that you mentioned playing the incredible machine, that's one of the things i'm going to do, the newer versions of TIM dont pull the same strings My windows starts up fine but my sound was way slower than yours, but will tweak the ram settings etc First time i'm using 86Box though, as another site suggested it was better than Virtualbox for win95. Also this way of installing windows is different to how i did it back then, i had no idea that the boot disk can copy the install files over by itself, i used to do that manually via command prompt after the FDISK step. I too have installed windows over and over, over the years that the serials got stuck in my head. The Bootable-USB has spoiled us so much and these days windows setup is almost just one-click. Does 86Box have an option to not capture the mouse? it's a bit of a mission having to release the capture each time.

[@hs_doubbing]

Thanks! Ugh, yeah, modern web browsers make it so hard to download obscure files… I don’t think there’s a way to avoid capturing the mouse, unfortunately. The way VirtualBox gets around that problem is by emulating a USB pen tablet, which of course is unsupported by any computer old enough to be running in 86Box.

[@0x8080]

Thanks for the tutorial! And btw I love split keyboards like the Microsoft Ergo 4000. And I write software, so just helps with stress on wrists.

[@rstabbs71]

Great video and very detailed. Unfortunately, I seem to get stuck after the disk boot failure message. I have all the configurations set as instructed and the proper boot disk mounted but it just hangs there flashing the cursor for way too long (over 2 hours) Not sure what I could be doing wrong. This is true on my main computer and on my laptop. Both of them are under a year old and fairly powerful gaming computers. Going to do a little adjusting in the configuration and hopefully get something to happen!

[@fra4455]

Great video✌

[@Rasthro]

The good thing about Windows 95 is that unlike Windows for Workgroups 3.11 you didn't have to go through the pain and headache of manually installing most of the drivers. It automatically detects and installs the majority of drivers!

[@realthegreydiamond]

What an awesome tutorial! Thank youuuu!

[@LostBeetle]

Just wanted to say that your boot disk is awesome. Cuts out so much of the bs involved with installing windows 95. Thank you for that and the tutorial. Good work.

[@hs_doubbing]

Glad to hear I was able to help!

[@linkfreeman1998]

@@hs_doubbing Can you host the boot disk in more common file hosting website like Mediafire? I cant access it unfortunately.

[@AnastassiosGiannaras-ml2sd]

could you provide a link for that lovely wallpaper at the start of the video?

[@mixcool]

actually its necessary change the boot secuence, whitout the change (A-C) for me the system reboot constatly

[@thisisnolongerrelevant]

so i did everything up until 12:37 no idea why but it just ends up saying "Missing operating system" and it won't let me progress any further. i don't know what to do now

[@hs_doubbing]

It sounds like the machine is trying to boot from the empty hard drive, which means you’ve either removed your floppy image from the drive or your BIOS boot order is set incorrectly in the setup utility. Make sure you’ve still got the setup boot disk in the floppy drive, and if so, check that the A drive is before the C drive in the boot order, under advanced BIOS features in the system setup.

[@thisisnolongerrelevant]

@@hs_doubbing Late reply but I suppose I got that solved. However, now I am having issues after installing: Something about the video driver, and it repeats this error multiple times. I am uncertain about how to fix this.

[@hs_doubbing]

I’ve found that video drivers on Windows 95 can just be…really annoying, lol. You might try manually selecting the video driver that matches your video chipset you chose in the VM settings, and if that doesn’t work, try a different video chipset (a Trident one might be a good idea) and install the driver again.

[@SeDarkLoad]

At 14:08 it just says "CDROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format reading drive X" what do i do?

[@hs_doubbing]

As the message would imply, the ISO of Windows 95 you have may somehow be formatted wrong. Try downloading the one I have linked in the video description and see if it works better for you. Basically, ISO-9660/High Sierra is the oldest standardized file system for CD-ROMs. Windows calls it “CDFS.” Nowadays, CDs are sometimes in other formats, such as UDF. If you put a disc in one of those other formats in a DOS PC, you will get that error message, because DOS only supports ISO-9660. It’s possible you have a Windows 95 ISO that was mistakenly formatted in UDF.

[@SeDarkLoad]

@@hs_doubbing I used the one you linked but it looks different than in the video since it only has the disk01 iso and the artwork folder and lacks the Disk01 folder and the "Bootable" iso.Could that be the problem?

[@SeDarkLoad]

NVM it works now.Thank you

[@Obviouslag]

I did the exact same setup as you (except for a few options that you don't have in 86Box Manager that were probably added in a later version) but when I get to the Win 95 install I get errors saying the configuration is invalid, then it copies nothing and after the reboot I get the DISK BOOT FAILURE message. I would assume the error is in the hdd but since I have the same config as you I really don't know what's wrong..

[@robertvelasquez823]

I have that keyboard, suffice to say, when I found some other keyboards, I immediately got them to swap that one out, forever. The only gripe I have is with the arrow keys on that one in the setup wallpaper. It was in the style of a diamond, instead of the flipped t style most keyboards of the time had back then and even now.

[@C4Bomber]

13:54 is it supposed to format that fast, or did you cut the video? lol mine is taking ages, and i thought i chose the same config as you did, but maybe i missed something

[@hs_doubbing]

I did cut the video a bit. It’s okay if it takes a bit.

[@notalos3r]

When I go to download the iso file it gives me a note. is there a fix to this?

[@kenlee-b3h]

I'm so happy this works! Is it possible to mount iso and install games on the VM? Edit: Nvm, I got it to work, just had to hit media on the top of the window and mount my iso. Thank you so much for this tutorial!!

[@tjanas]

You can skip the ScanDisk, memory, disk-space checks by providing the /is /id /im flags respectively to setup.exe

[@rid1coza]

but that just takes all the fun out of watching windows set itself up!

[@Slawek361]

I cant run it even.. It's says he need ROM's, i downloaded that Github file and there's any ROM.

[@hs_doubbing]

There is another GitHub link that contains the ROMs.

[@Slawek361]

@@hs_doubbing Where? There's a lot of files "Floppy, hdd, etc etc" no ROM.

[@hs_doubbing]

Please read the video description again. There is a link to the 86Box ROM set in it.

[@Slawek361]

@@hs_doubbing I know... I downloaded it but there's no ROM folder but other catalogues.

[@hs_doubbing]

Those folders contain the ROMs. You need to put all those folders in the ROMs folder inside your 86Box folder.

[@blakelyons4314]

I followed your step-by-step tutorial and finally got 86Box to work, however at 15:30 during Step 4 I run into an error message that says: "Bad command or file name C:\WINCDROM\WIN95" Any help would be appreciated! I'm new to emulations and am very confused and not sure how to fix any issues I come across. I had a hard enough time getting the ROM files in the right place!

[@blakelyons4314]

Nevermind, I had to fix some file paths but I figured out my issue. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@listening2kesha]

not sure if you still read comments on this video, but its not detecting my windows version? what do i do?

[@listening2kesha]

nvm accidentally put a windows xp iso LOL

[@amopaperbag854]

i love you bro now i can mess around with 3d movie maker. its movie makin time

[@celesterossi733]

sorry but the boot disk download page wont load

[@josecabrera5632]

Is it possible to make win95 resolution to be 4k/2k?

[@justsimplymax]

Can you use a real CD instead of an iso? I just for the nostalgia found a windows 95 licence cd and bootdisk for 26€ and bought it, thus i wanna know if i can use it via the disk?

[@jeganathanv4173]

The sound is not working 95.

[@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI]

Got any way around the fact that it's detecting a floppy, but first it says unknown and then it says not found even though it just worked 5 minutes ago?

[@kaydenandcolstew5763]

Setup /is /nm makes setup run no matter what even on my tablet and dos running from usb

[@OxygenOxy]

I can't use the boot disk, as 86box does not find it, I also noticed its 1,440 kb...maybe that's the issue?

[@hs_doubbing]

That’s the size of a standard high-density 3.5-inch floppy. Make sure you’ve set your floppy drive to the correct settings.

[@سباك-ش7ق]

dude there is no 86box manager

[@M084MM3D]

When i have setup my vm,at the "Network" part my ui was diffrent then yours and i only had "null driver" and "SLiRP" and no interface

[@hs_doubbing]

You have to install the npcap driver separately and enable it for your network interface. npcap.com/

[@M084MM3D]

@@hs_doubbing gonna check that

[@briannarodriguez7867]

Once I get to the windows setup and need to partition, it says "no fixed disks present." The boot disk is in the floppy drive. Using the 9x normal boot. Not sure what to do from here.

[@hs_doubbing]

Check to make sure that you added a hard drive and attached it to the primary IDE controller.

[@briannarodriguez7867]

@@hs_doubbing I got passed this part and was able to format the hard drive but I'm on Step 2 to copy CD-ROM files and it says "CDROM not High Sierra or ISO 9660 reading drive x. Abort, Retry, Fail." The Windows CD is insterted with the version you recommended.

[@jeganathanv4173]

The link for the boot disk is broken.

[@mikaelpelle]

For it to work, I actually had to 'copy link', and execute in a new tab. KZbin seems to be messing up with it.

[@ssf1389]

Idk why but you sound like a character from a show I watch (specifically Peanut from BURNER) and its really nice since hes my favorite. Thank you for the tutorial as well!

[@jakesmin]

SACRI!?!?!?!?!?

[@KingNothing22]

two of the options are NOT There (the mouse and HD Controller). What version are your using?

[@hs_doubbing]

In the video, I'm using version 3.1.1, but the current version of 4.0.1 also has the options. Make sure you're on the latest version. If you are on the latest version, make sure you have the current version of the ROM set, and make sure you've selected the correct machine type in the "Machine" section.

[@KingNothing22]

@@hs_doubbingthank you, i didn't change the machine, and i got the option when i changed it.

[@hs_doubbing]

Glad to help! :)

[@KingNothing22]

@@hs_doubbing I watched another video on how to get it onlne, I had to change the IRQ from 10 to 3 and i set the proxy to protoweb so i can surf the old net...

[@sm-ftve]

I'm using OSR 2.5 W/O the Plus! 95 Bundled in.

[@sm-ftve]

Will I get a Windows 98-like Windows Explorer on Windows 95 on that as well?

[@hs_doubbing]

You should. The Windows Desktop Update is included with OSR 2.5. If it doesn’t install it automatically, go to the WIN95 folder on the CD and run IE4SETUP.EXE.

[@sm-ftve]

​@@hs_doubbing Oh ok. Thanks!

[@TenfoldBulb4878]

The links for the Boot disks stopped working.

[@hs_doubbing]

They seem to still be working for me. Try again in a few minutes and see if they’re still down.

[@TenfoldBulb4878]

​​@@hs_doubbing Unfortunately, they still don't work for me. It could be an issue with my PC.

[@LostBeetle]

Both Brave and Edge browsers were blocking it for me. I had to right click the link and copy the link address and paste it in the url bar, then had to tell Brave to keep the "unsecure file". Brave did not tell me why the link wasn't working by the way, Edge did. I only tried Edge to see if it was a browser problem, then I saw Edge was blocking an "unsecure download".

[@rid1coza]

The links work for me, but Firefox silently blocks the download as "malicious" so i was working with a 0KB file until i found that was the issue, you need to manually allow the download to go through.

[@TenfoldBulb4878]

Thank you to all of those who replied, I am able to download the boot disk by opening the url in a new tab.

[@johnvanwinkle4351]

Thanks for the great tutorial! I am looking forward to trying this.....grin

[@DEA1HYT]

How do i let my mouse escape the 86box window? is there a key combination for that? edit: just realized it was F8 + F12

[@Solaar_Punk]

Why did you choose to emulate a slow computer?

[@LostBeetle]

86box and pcem emulate the entire computer on one core of your processor, it's surprisingly difficult emulating even moderate hardware from back in the day. It would be nice if they could emulate utilizing multiple threads but from what I understand that's basically impossible.

[@LoopyBusiness]

Literally so cringe bro

[@hs_doubbing]

wow

[@LoopyBusiness]

@@hs_doubbing 🤣🤣🤣