The Win 9x SSD Multiboot Adventure

Here I try to get as many OS'es booting on one drive as I can.
Thanks to the people on the stream for helping out with this one.
Streams featured in this video:
• Trying and failing to ...
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[@latorcognitio9369]

"Oh my God, I moved the move command and it doesn't work anymore" is my favorite quote of 2018 so far.

[@nismoklutchkicker]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but I will say it is in my top 10 so far.

[@disastra_tds]

it survived till 2k19

[@joshuanorris5860]

@@nismoklutchkicker i would bitvh

[@crylune]

Still my favorite quote in 2022.

[@LegendaryWaterBottle]

*YOU MUST INSTALL PRINTER TO PRINT FROM WINDOWS*

[@AndreasElf]

You want him to take his own life?

[@theunknown7683]

No shit

[@smd89xx]

yes, the floor here is made from floor

[@gamepunk7963]

@@AndreasElf whispers:i think he does

[@NatetheNintendofan]

@@gamepunk7963 lol

[@ixionn563]

"Oh my god I MOVED the MOVE command!" I died

[@raven4k998]

I wonder if he'll try installing both all windows versions and ibm os's on the same computer that would be epic to watch him do

[@TheRedCap]

Druaga uploaded a 30+ minute SSD video Worlds are shattering

[@NoName81393]

>Windows Vista running in a Windows ME VM I laughed for a good two minutes reading that. I have to see this, I just have to.

[@theunknown7683]

I was laughing. I said are you crazy

[@KiraSlith]

an hour of Duraga1 without it being a stream, today must be something special in it's own way.

[@MarkHyde]

Love how Druaga does the most painful and rabbit hole inducing install method - An OEM Windows 98 CD-ROM will always insist on being installed on a new machine exclusively - unless you change the install type to the files behaving like a FULL Retail version. :D Love the multi-partition option though.

[@DVINTHEHOUSEMAN]

*Dauga*

[@xpmyt341]

Dauga

[@smd89xx]

Dauga

[@RedNoise-hz5nh]

Dauga

[@skylabhalo]

Dauga

[@ircluzar]

The error of "Divide by zero" or "Error 200" can happen if you are trying to run early dos software on either a P2 with a clock greater than 330mhz or a P3 with a clock greater than 550mhz. This however only affects the startup of the program, meaning that if it happens on a dos program running on top of win95, you can nerf the usable capacity of the processor by burning ressources using a program like CPU Killer. Once the program is loaded you can stop CPU Killer and run the program at normal speed.

[@Tylonfoxx]

the same thing happens with older programs written in Turbo Pascal (like the first Jazz Jackrabbit game)... again, patches are available. those also conk out on a cpus running 500 MHz or more I wonder if some win95 stuff was implemented with Turbo Pascal as well, or if its just C and assembly

[@WOTRetro]

Maybe don´t put a pentium 3 into an AMD Athlon board ^^

[@juniorbcm5375]

WOTRetro Yep, that's a slot A motherboard

[@resneptacle]

Some older Pentium/AMD boards do support both ^^

[@heyyitsultima]

Anything after Super Socket 7 would not be supported because that's when Intel ditched AMD and AMD continued to work on Super Socket 7 before developing their own stuff.

[@resneptacle]

Ultima Yeah, that's true though...

[@keithedwards3257]

If you install Windows 98 and then Windows 2000 on the same partition you can dual boot 2 OSes on the same partition. Back in 2000ish I had 5 OSes running on 1 partition. NTLDR is the key.

[@TheDemocrab]

That PC is overkill for XP. I was running it quite happily on a bloody Cyrix 6x86PR150 with 192MB RAM and that's below its minimum specs.

[@700gsteak]

7:07 omg thats the legendary ABIT KA7-100. I used to have that board. It wont work with a p3 because it is a AMD board, Druaga. You need a Athlon slot A cpu. OMG I knew that motherboard looked familiar in the thumbnail. I loved that board, it was chock full of every plug/socket/feature on a consumer motherboard at that time. A real flagship model. It's only weakness was the shitty via chipset/chipset drivers which would make the os microstutter and the bad cap problem as yours suffered from. The bad cap problem robbed me of that awesome board from me too. :/

[@timbomfg]

Came here to say this. SLOT1 and SLOTA are the same but reverse 180deg, which is why the cpu was sitting on the caps.

[@700gsteak]

Yep, they were mechanically the same. AMD was really smart to use the same connector so it was easy for the mobo makers to source parts.

[@rawr51919]

I was there for the stream that showed this multiboot dilemma, Druaga1 using (and setting up) a quad DOS/Win95/Win98/WinME boot setup.

[@FrezzyYT]

Colton Rushton thanks for spoiling it buddy

[@Kacpelux]

Hey Druaga, if you will install windows vista on VM try use another emulator than Bochs, because bochs is many slower than others :)

[@benjaminbrady2385]

This was enjoyable to watch but having used different partitions felt like cheating. If you already knew how to used GRUB, doing this would’ve been trivial from the get go. Stream was really fun to watch though even if I missed 99% of it

[@paincreatesfame]

I watched the stream and it was really fun

[@comput1258]

Same

[@zuccx99]

me too

[@abrarahmad00]

Same

[@oofingberg]

Me not I watched my cat

[@TheSpiritingPoet]

"Make XP run on unfavourable conditions" There is a post on a forum I go on that got XP to run on a 2Mhz Pentium. Lets see Druaga do that!

[@theunknown7683]

How bout no

[@gamertygonl]

where

[@TheSpiritingPoet]

GamerTygoNL betaarchive.com

[@700gsteak]

Trying to install more than one version of windows on the same partition won't work because of the directory names among other things. You can change the name of the main windows folder during the install eg c:\windows to c:\w95 but all installs will still try to make and use c:\program files creating permission and file version errors. It is possible to install multiple w9x installations on the same partition however. What I did in the past was make a batch file that ran before windows started and it would change c:\win1 to c:\windows or c:\win2 to c:\windows depending on which option i picked in the batch file. It didnt matter to me that both windows used the same c:\program files directory. I could still install 3rd party software like msoffice etc the same as usual. It didnt cause a problem and I didnt have to worry about windows mangling the bootsector because to windows there was only one os installed.

[@blairlohnes8103]

I underclocked my Duron 950 to 650 with the pencil trick a couple weeks ago and it worked great! I was definitely on edge while waiting for it to post though.

[@RecycleBin0]

some stuff that may/may not help for future windows issues: use the DEBUG command to totally disable windows file protection, use the AT command to log on as the SYSTEM account, use folder and registry permissions to prevent data from being read or writen by clicking 'deny' for all users (including SYSTEM) in the security dialog. Also take a look at the trick where you switch the names of utilman/sethc and cmd in order to open a command prompt at the logon screen.

[@madmattman5675]

Have you heard of XOSL? That used to be my personal go-to for doing this exact task! And it's pretty ;-)

[@lantum1]

You just need to rename WIN.COM and from that moment windows 98 will not see windows 95

[@Sebastianxy1]

Денис Устинов or use flags to skip upgrade

[@Marko-wi1lb]

beat me to it! i was just thinking that whilst watching the video :-) fond memories of figuring that one out back n' the day

[@yushatak]

9:11 - You should be able to install 95 on a 1Ghz+ machine if you patch the relevant files in the installer the same way you would for the end result OS. Underclocking works too, of course, but software solution is better for having a copy that works anywhere for the future. Could also install it on an unrelated machine and then copy the folder over and manually tweak the OS for the new machine (same for any 3x/9x OS).

[@yushatak]

1:47 - Can see by your diagram that you're missing some stuff - Linux can be made to boot from a FAT32 partition and NTLDR can chainload it, or the Linux bootloader can load NTLDR, or you can use a DOS-based or alternative bootloader to load all of those. As well, you could install WFW 3.1x (1x, 2x, and 3x are basically shells so I'm not counting those), NT3x, NT3.5x, and maybe some flavor of OS/2? As you mentioned there's 98, but then also 98SE (they are distinct OS versions). I don't know if we should count OSRs for 95, but if we include pre-release there's some Chicago builds that are pretty unique enough to count as their own thing perhaps, and there's also Neptune.

[@rhfweb]

You need the full version of Win98SE, you are trying to use an OEM copy. I'm only half way through so don't know if you'd actually solved. OEM will only allow a clean install, other option would be Partition Magic, had a boot manager Boot Magic if I recall.

[@TooSweaty4U]

If I'm not mistaken, with this method (or a very similar one) you used you could install as many OSes as your hdd/ssd size and hardware compatibility allowed for if you used an extended partition with logical partitions inside. Like, booting from only active partitions is a native MBR limitation, and as far as I know, having the BIOS boot from the MBR code sector and then delegating to the PBR code in the partition is how ntldr, bcd and grub could boot linux and modern windows from logical partitions until uefi and gpt made the whole thing irrelevant. I have vague memories of installing win98se on a logical partition and booting it with Boot Magic (a boot manager from the creators of Partition Magic) waaay back in the day. But I might be misremembering.

[@steingat]

So, seen first 5 minutes, Few things to remember, Windows 95 OSR2 and OSR2.5 would be required for fat32 support, Ohh, and NT 4.0 does not have Fat32 support out of the box, you might be able to find a 3rd party driver, but its unlikely that you will be able to make a bootable NT4 partition with Fat32

[@dbzssj4678]

I used to multiboot 98 and 2000 on a compaq 7792dmt on a 40gb drive, I just had 2 primary partitions. Windows 2000 setup detected the other and allowed me to switch between at boot.

[@cleanycloth]

You can use an old version of Acronis OS Selector that lets you do this sort of thing and still have all drives readable by all OSes IIRC.

[@crylune]

weed.

[@erlend1554]

Yesn't.

[@gamertygonl]

@@erlend1554 Non't

[@wmbauer2]

Hey smoker, tried quite the same in ~2000 with same results. 3rd party boot manager/multiple partitions did the trick, never got 95/98 installed in one partition. I did however use PowerQuest BootMagic (later Norton) which has a way nicer 9x style GUI. Also check out their PartitionMagic. It even runs from floppies.

[@kennysboat4432]

that livestream was fun! lol watching you get pissed off really cracks me up.

[@lookoutpiano8877]

I love how his very professional looking diagram had the word "shitty" on it XD.

[@jedixo]

just started the video but, Windows NT 4 and earlier will not boot from a fat32 partition. only fat16 or NTFS. its a pain i know, I attempted to dual boot windows 9x and NT together too

[@kjrchannel1480]

I don't think an ssd is magic or special. I know XP runs really well on a K62 500, but any video has to be local because streaming is obviously very choppy. That is even with a pci geforce2 mx200 with 32 MB ram. Also now that Firefox and Micromanagementsoft has blacklisted pre sse2 CPU's for modern software releases it makes them more limited in ways. Back in my previous days it was interesting to get W98, Novell, WNT4, and Redhat to Identify on a network. W98 was first to install, then NT , then the awful lilo that was hard to get rid of. That was before grub. Most of that is useless knowledge these days.

[@aaaalex1994]

Win95 has problems with AMD CPUs that have a clock speed faster than 350 MHz. Use FIX95CPU to fix that.

[@TheKingFriday]

OMG AN HOUR LONG VIDEO. YESSSSS

[@harryrickenbach5890]

Win95 has a problem running on a CPU with a clock speed above 350Mhz

[@ktg5]

This video was most likely the most interesting video in a while, still go back to looking at this to this day.

[@LKComputes]

There's actually a program that allows you to unlock Windows 95 to use more than 1.0 GHz on AMD processors or 2.1 GHz on Intel processors.

[@WarLordN1k]

What is with the hunt's tomato sauce can time 9:27

[@drsunshineaod2023]

Get AkBkuKu to repair the caps on your motherboards for you and make it a collab video.

[@zuccx99]

God I hate the cpu cooling mount system for slot a. I destroyed a motherboard like that.

[@IAMSolaara]

Use FIX95 ffs, windows 95 has problems with CPUs of frequency ABOVE 300MHz, giving a protection error. FIX95 fixes that, I used it while installing it on VirtualBox

[@gnomeddev]

WINDOWS NT HAS A BOOT LOADER, I DID THIS WITH MULTIPLE DRIVES and got up to 7 windows 7

[@Maxmega12]

F7-MAN!

[@laharl2k]

If your board doesnt detect the IDE adapter just use a PCI IDE controller. If posible one that supports boot and that is period correct. Works marvels with shitty VIA mobos that dont detect sata2 hdds 75% of the times The K6-2 will do just fine. I installed windows XP on a K5 100mhz with 64mb of ram.

[@GeorgiGeorgievGT]

Druaga1: "I moved the move command!" Man, your videos are great!

[@reki353]

In WIndows NT based OS's (IN this case win 2000 and up) If you wanted multiple OS's on ONE drive, you install the oldest one first (for example WIn 2000) then the newer one (or the Windows version after that if you want more than a dual boot) and the second OS you install will automatically pick up on the older one and in the end, the Newest OS would have installed its own windows NT bootloader and it will give you options on which os you want to boot from. Here is a pic as an example: www.tenforums.com/attachments/tutorials/29147d1438940791-dual-boot-windows-10-windows-7-windows-8-a-win710boot.jpg www.groovypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Step-10-EasyBCD.png cdn.instructables.com/FYN/NU8U/G8C3UBKI/FYNNU8UG8C3UBKI.LARGE.jpg ( you can have more than two its just that i couldnt find a good example with more than just two on a windows nt bootloader)

[@kjjustinXD]

I have an 5 OS multiboot System on my old Laptop, starting from Windows 95 to Windows XP. it Works! Just installed every System On its own Partition.

[@15fakeaccount]

Uplink music at 36:45 and 45:50 ! Anyway, Windows' own bootloader should have handled multibooting from different partitiotions without any issues. Not sure of DOS though.

[@yogevbocher3603]

Back then very few people installed Windows by themselves. And who did was knowledgable enough. We all read magazines about the new "Whatsoever" operating systems and all the quirks and flaws and peculiarities that came along with it. We all knew beforehand that installating Windows 95 needed much patience and bravery and yes - restarts. I remember installing Windows 95 once on a Pentium 90 system and the setup would crash often. After restart it would resume work until the next crash happened - rinse and repeat at least 5 times. Depending on additional hardware like sound cards, graphic cards, modems, network cards and SCSI cards one could expect a lot of crashing during installation.

[@vaidkun]

It's easy to remove and solder new caps on motherboard.

[@Sparkette]

I have a computer with DOS/Win3.1 on one hard drive, and Win95 on another, and I rigged a hardware dual boot switch to set the jumpers without opening the case.

[@Alex-rn7gf]

Install Mac OS X Yosemite on Unsupported Mac! for the next video anyway i Multiboot the Win9x and NT 4.0 OS's on Vmware Fusion using System Commander with a SSD! this saved a lot of time for me

[@TheOxis1]

Next time you could try using GRUB4DOS, it's full fledged grub but made to work with DOS & WIN partitions so no additional Linux partitions to make it work

[@itislucio]

the protection error is beacuse windows 95 is not compatible with virtualization, you have to disable it (well it does that w/ my VMs)

[@andresbravo2003]

Multi-boot* and Dual-Boot are quite bizarre but it is fun to do and it's very safe! *multi-boot requires a 3rd party software

[@FlanGaming]

I installed Win95 (the USB support version) on a period-correct computer my friend's parents gave me from their basement, and the installation just worked. No protection errors, nothing. Granted, it's a 200MHz Pentium 1 with 48MB of RAM, but I'm also not much of a computer wizard so I wouldn't understand any errors anyway without the internet.

[@kokodin5895]

most slot1 bx boards have cmos battery dependent soft power on, when cmos battery is flat they simply won't power up don't you have serial mouse? like com1 port microsoft compatybile mouse durons have locked multiplier , bridges are cut by laser :P bridging them is safe because graphite from a pencil is not as conductive to do anything to surounding pads, resistance is too high it may not work, but should not break anything with sdram basically pc 66 should work only on k6/pentium 1 motherboard and they are dubblesided, max size was around 64mb per slot or something, also memory cap on the older chipsets 512mb modules are an oddity that rarely worked on other chipsets than via because via apollo gave 2gb memory cap, bx 768mb, i815 512mb total but bx and i815 use memory modules with parity, via simplyfied this may cause some motherboards with intel chipsets to see half of the via compatybile memory module why didn't you move your windows from pure dos mode in the frst place? i gave up on this video half way trough edit if you just made enough partition for all the operating systems and install windows xp after any of them xp would build boot ini file with all "older windows versions" , where bootloader would switch chosen system partition as C, with all the other partitions visable on the fly all because windows xp bootloader is much more advanced, but it can still boot dos systme from fifferent partition

[@laggyhacker]

can somebody tell me what's the name of that watch? I think it's a Casio but which model, it looks nice

[@Jpk516]

Tay follows me too. lol I don't know why, but he does

[@youtubasoarus]

Bonus points for playing those mod's in the background. Takes me back. :D

[@DxDeksor]

For the c/h/s settings, you can use a small utility called whatide that will report to you the proper settings.

[@techvideos8664]

At 35:00 you sound weird 36:00

[@lupinedreamexpress]

SENPAI

[@interlace84]

I remember using BootStar back in the day to get 95, 98 & Me working on seperated partitions.. by now I guess there's a plethora of those tools for the job.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

28:10 Windows 98 contains a newer version of DOS, which overwrote the previous version. - - - - - - - - - - Oh God... Windows 7 on top of all that at the beginning would be hell... As would having a standalone DOS installation at the very bottom, mixing 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems on a single partition, or the addition of a Linux + Wine installation to the mix.

[@flambo1500]

And ReactOS

[@haktnpolat]

We want druaga1 on Netflix!

[@runrin_]

this seems like one of the most successful druaga1 videos of all time. nice work getting this working. you put a lot of effort into it. thanks for a great video

[@janhofmeier9427]

Little Correction: you called the thing at the start of the disk Bootsector. Technical it is a bootsector but more specific would be MBR (Master Boot Record). Bootsector most often refers to the PBR (Partition Boot Record). The DOS or Windows Installation writes a Standard MBR which just chainloads the bootsector of the active Partition. You replaced this chainloader with the xfdisk Bootmanager, wich lets you just select the Partition to chainload to and mark ist temprarly active to not confuse Windows.The DOS or Win9x Setup also writes the PBR to load the IO.SYS, wich is the DOS Kernel and DOS than is used as a Bootloader for Win 9x, which runs it's own Kernel. Win 9x wants exactly that DOS Version, which it ships with, that is 7.0 for Win95a, 7.10 for 95b&c and 98 and 8.0 for ME. As you already knew you can load diffrent Windows Versions via a config.sys Menu, given the DOS Version fits. As you have Windows 95b it can use the same DOS as 98. All newer DOS Versions (I think all except 8.0) have the ability to load an older DOS Version via F7 from the same partition. So it may be even possible to load the DOS 8.0 from DOS 7.10. So would not call multibooting with a single partition impossible yet. In the worst case I could write a Bootloader to load another DOS from the same Partition. Btw: you can reinstall the DOS (PBR, IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM) with the SYS Command. If you install a NT based Windows and have a 9x based installd, it will save the current DOS PBR to a file befor it installs it own. NT

[@Nathan-jc9yz]

Druaga1, I think I know what to do. Install Windows 95 first, with what you did. Then move the entire Windows 95 into a folder and make separate Windows 98, 2000, ME, NT or whatever you want folder. Then instead of clicking no to upgrade to Windows 98, click yes. Instead of putting in C:\Windows (which will overwrite everything) put it in the Windows 98 folder. Do the same for each installer, in each of their own folders. If it didn't work, I'm sorry for making you suffer, but I thank you for taking the time to read this. Also if you want, try and put a 420 reference in the vid as well.

[@Jamman88888]

Is there a new React OS video coming anytime soon, would love to see if compatibility has improved

[@kaguraschimizu4609]

Druaga please, . . . We need 2hr+ video

[@humanbeing_]

Kagura Schimizu - dude just go watch the streams he mentioned at the very end. This video was made from 2 - 3 hour streams... One Friday night and the second on Sunday night. I was on the from like 10 seconds after the notification and arrived in the second a couple hours in because I just got off work 🤦‍♂️ They're epic streams tho I will say that much! Just go to his channel, then go to his playlists tab, then find the "streams" folder 😬👍

[@kaguraschimizu4609]

Human Being , already watched it, when its live. . . . But i meant that the video format he used to do back in the day. . .

[@LightTheUnicorn]

Not much better than coming home, getting a cup of tea, and watching an hour long SSD Adventure. You moving the move command with Windows 98 was too much fun!

[@enzonolastname1181]

Windows nt 4.0 has a os boot menu

[@ashitomarisu]

34:00 looks like he descended into insanity

[@JaySinsGarage]

What a mint video

[@izools]

Baaaaaaaahahahaha dude love your videos and channels... You realise you were attempting to slot the P-III in the wrong way around into Bad Cap Board, right? Fan facing AWAY from the rear panel :) LMAO, made my day seeing you do that.

[@Felecc]

This video is like a fever dream but better :DD (I mean i really enjoyed it, keep it up Smoker :D)

[@kanguri6294]

i enjoyed watching the stream live

[@Snowwie88]

New idea Druaga1, if possible. It's sort of based on this idea but you won't need a bootloader. What do you DO need is a lot of power switches on the front panel of your computer. The idea is to buy 10 small cheap ass harddrives (you know 40GB for 5 bucks), and install Windows 3.11, 95,98,ME,2000,XP,VISTA,7,8 and 10 on each drive. Then use mechanical switches to turn off 9 drives so only THE drive with the wanted operating system will load. The idea seems interesting but: Getting Win 3.11 and 95 on the same pc as Windows 10 can be troublesome. Still. If you have a motherboard with 2 IDE connectors your can install 3.11 , 95 and 98 on IDE Drives and the rest should be doable on sata. All though I am not sure Win ME and 2000 will accept sata. But the challenge would be: COULD YOU GET ALL THESE 10 WINDOWS VERSIONS ON 1 COMPUTER, with 10 SEPARATE DRIVES.(Don't matter what kind of drives, you have plenty lying around, if they are just big enough to fit the OS).

[@fanfan54old]

One of your best videos, and with the best editing! 👌

[@Snowwie88]

Fix Windows 95 CPU too fast bug: lonecrusader.x10host.com/fix95cpu.html Used it in one of my video's installing Windows 95 on a a 2,4Ghz machine, worked like a charm.

[@ChozoSR388]

I get that 'Windows protection error' bullshit on a Win98SE machine I built. Still not sure what the hell that's about.

[@ReshiLuna]

ChozoSR388 the network card from what I remember from one of druaga's vids.

[@ChozoSR388]

The network card...of course....I didn't even consider that...I'll have to give that a try. I thought it might have been the processor; I'm using a P4 for the system

[@mawardiramli]

Just install MS-DOS 7.10 from china dos union, play with msdos.sys option inside and it can boot windows 3.1, windows 95 and windows 98 from single partition

[@user-tj7hk1ss8d]

Windows Network Technology (NT) STONKS Network Technology File System (NTFS) STONKS if it is Network Technology File System, then how can a filesystem run on a network?

[@bnmc]

Not watching the streams seem to have payed off. I prepare for PAIN! (If that was even in the streams, idk) (yup, this was in the streams, and it was PAIN) (Thank you Druaga, very cool!)

[@janhofmeier9427]

Here is how to multiboot with DOS 6.22, 95 ,98, Me, NT3.51, NT4, 2000 from a single partition (only proof of concept, not recommended for daily use): Install MS-DOS 6.22 Save bootsector to bootsect.622 and rename bootfiles to *.dos Install WIndows ME to C:\Windows Rename or delete C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\REGENV32.EXE start debug enter: 'L 100 2 0 1', 'e 2E0 "WME"','e 2EB "WME"', "R BX", "0", "R CX", "200", "N C:\bootsect.wme", "W", "Q" Rename startfiles to *.wme and rename win.com Install Windows 95 B or C to C:\WIN95 Move Bootfiles to new Folder boot95 Rename C:\WIN95\win.com to win.w95 Install Windows 98 to C:\WIN98 Modify MSDOS.SYS: Comment WinDir out, set BootGUI=0 Add line "PATH C:\WIN98;C:\WIN98\COMMAND;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND" at start of autoexec.bat Add lines "DEVICE=C:\WIN98\HIMEM.SYS" and "DEVICE=C:\WIN98\IFSHLP.SYS" at start of autoexec.bat create config.sys menu for WIN98 and WIN95 with fixed paths for WIN95 and DOS=LOW for WIN95 Boot WIN95 Entry and start debug. In debug type "s C9:1000 ffff "SYSTEM.DAT" and note the printed adress (c9:358D in my case). Substract 2 (in Hex) from that address. Quit debugger (q) and create file patch95.dbg with the lines 'e "5"', 'q' and a extra newline For the WIN95 case in AUTOEXEC.BAT add debug < patch95.dbg Install Windows NT rename C:\bootsect.dos to bootsect.w40 edit boot.ini to include two /WIN95DOS entry, one for C:\bootsect.622, the other for C:\bootsect.wme and one /WIN95 entry for C:\bootsect.w40 Install more NTs until HDD ist full

[@CraftyTheFox]

Wow only 1 dislike

[@TeionM83]

The Win95 install issue is well-known and there's an official fix for it, called the AMD K6 Update. You can download it from WinWorld PC (winworldpc.com/product/windows-95/patches).

[@Fender178]

Druaga1, I know why you are getting the protection error under Win95. It's because of your CPU that you have installed. AMD K6-2- 400. The issue happens when you have an AMD k6-2 350mhz or faster or an AMD Athlon 1.1GHZ or faster. It's intermittent on the K6-2 350mhz but at faster speeds it occurs more often. www.computing.net/answers/windows-95/win-95-windows-protection-error-after-setup/170738.html. Read post #4. And here is the file that fixes this issue. www.computerhope.com/download/window95.htm. It's called amdk6upd.exe.

[@BeastMaster69988]

hey druaga can you please show off a computer like in the orginal ultimate dos machine video?

[@mina47879]

goddammit druaga, the win 95 CPU frequency problems occur on CPUs over 2.15ghz not 1ghz, the original AMD board would've been fine. I've had 95 ruining just fine on a Pentium D under-clocked to 2ghz.

[@technixbul]

Win XP can and will run on 300MHz pentium CPU with minimum RAM 64MB, i've tested it myself but it will take 3-4 hours to install {O_x}, you could use normal ATA UDMA HDD to fit all OS 95-XP and if you use 800MHz Pentium CPU and minimum 256MB ram you can manage to fit even Vista so will be [95-Vista] list for win 7 is 1GHz and 512 RAM - bare minimum

[@AN-yy9cq]

What's really hilarious is that fix95cpu and windows 98 setup switches could've trimmed 40 minutes off this video

[@FrezzyYT]

HEY DRUAGA1 HAS MY WATCH!

[@bobdole4694]

If you want a Win 9x period multi-boot manager; Try Powerquest's "Bootmagic." Such eye candy compared to the free options at the time.

[@Kali_Krause]

@Druaga1 The windows protection error was a common issue in the windows 9.x family. A temporary fix is to rename smartdrv.exe and rmm.pdr to the following: * * smartdrv.exe--> smartdrv.ch rmm.pdr--> rmm.ch Note, for the second file, you need to change the attributes on rmm.pdr before renaming it to rmm.ch. Renaming rmm.pdr * Boot to DOS Next, type C: and press enter Then use the following: * cd\windows\system\iosubsys and press enter Next type the following: * attrib rmm.pdr -r -s -h and press enter * Lastly, ren rmm.pdr rmm.ch and press enter Once rmm.pdr is renamed, restart the computer to see if the issue persists. * Renaming smartdrv.exe Boot to DOS * Type C: and press enter * cd\windows and press enter ren smartdrv.exe smartdrv.ch and press enter * Once smartdrv.exe is renamed, restart the computer to see if the issue persists.

[@illuminationgaming6762]

You're using windows 98 FIRST edition so that's why it did the protection error, 98 second edition would have not done that seeing as it works flawlessly on my 2.66ghz p4 (with unofficial service pack 2.1a of course) There's a piece of software called addawins where you can multi boot win9x with less hassle Check it out for yourself here: www.thpc.info/dual/9xme/addawins.html