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Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: aXeL on August 02, 2003, 04:54:02 PM: Does anyone have any idea how to create a set of floppy installation disks from a CD? I had a set of them back in the 486 days. I wish I had hung on to them.
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Beaner on August 04, 2003, 06:52:59 AM: What version of 95 ?

Orig,A,B ?
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Guest on September 07, 2003, 10:40:00 AM: I Been Tryin but i can't find a util that will let me put my 2,000 kb CAB files to a 1.44 floppy

Look In you win 95 directory on your win95 cd and check out the size of your cab files
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Guest on September 12, 2003, 05:56:26 PM: BY FAR the easiest way would be to download floppy images from P2P (assuming you own a lawful Win95 license, of course). Burn the images and any extracting tools (if you copy the Winimage program files it will run from CD) to a CD and you can not only generate a set of floppies, you can regenerate whatever floppies inevitably end up corrupt. /tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />
Avoid the agony and put your hard drive in another PC, copy the Win95 installation files to the hard disk, put it back in the target computer, and install from there.
A DOS boot disk, a null-modem cable, and another PC will also let you transfer files.
Google for how to do it.
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Guest on September 12, 2003, 06:00:33 PM: Win95/98 backup floppy set (http://\"http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.bale1/bkup/win95backup.htm\")
I found the info for you, but doing it is still a bad idea. /tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' /> /laugh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':lol:\' />
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Guest on October 12, 2004, 07:58:06 PM: Actually since you have the Win95 CD, you can copy the setup and cab files to a floppy but since the cab files are 1.62MB in size then you will need software that will format the floppy to the 1.7MB DMF.
You can download the software here: MAXI Disk
http://www.herne.com/ (http://\"http://www.herne.com/\")

Here is the list of files on the Disk 1 of a floppy set:

Deltemp 1Kb MS Dos app
Dossetup 71Kb BIN file
Extract 46Kb Application
Mini 432Kb
PreCopy 1 473Kb
Readme 8KB Text
Save32 1Kb MS Dos App
Scandisk 132Kb Application
Scandisk 1Kb Shortcut to Scandisk
Scanprog 5Kb Application
Setup 6Kb Application
Setup 34Kb Text Doc
Smartdrv 45Kb Application
Wb16off 1Kb Application
Winsetup 156Kb BIN file
Xmsmmgr 14KB Application

Disk 2 has:

Precopy2 1019Kb
Win95_02 642Kb

Disk 3 has:
Win95_3 1676KB

The rest of the set has the same Cab file as the disk number
IE Disk 4 has Cab 4 ect

This information is from a regular Floppy disk set from Microsoft, I have never actually made a set from a CD, but I have heard this can be done, as long as you know what files to include and you have the CD-Rom

I used the maxi software as you recommended and copied the CAB files (very handy by the way). Based on your list of files on Disk 1 and 2, I created those disks as well. I copied all the files in one directory on the system and then ran setup from the directory. Worked well!

I did not require any further files.

I had to make the 28 cab file disks and then 2 separate disks for the smaller files you listed. Total 30. It was a pain in the behind but I had to get data off the laptop. FYI the particular Win 95 CD was ver. B.
Thanks again
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Marian on October 23, 2004, 12:24:31 PM: I've a few sets of Win95 on floppy (original, MS product) if that would help.
Title: Win95 disk to floppies
Post by: Guest_guest_* on May 25, 2005, 12:11:59 PM: does any one knows where to download win95 floppy images????
I have an old 486 laptop and there is cd drive in it
Please help