My Step 7 shows I assigned the location of the VM box to the H drive, in a folder named 'Windows 95'. The name of the VM box will be Windows 95.vdi, and you can place it anywhere you want. Like the Step 7 image, I put the VM Box on an external hard drive, which also is assigned H. When you get to Step 7, this is where you assign the Virtual Machine location and file size. Follow toqabaqci's post for Step 3 Memory Size, Step 4 Hard disk, Step 5 Hard disk file type and Step 6 Storage on physical hard disk. Leave this box as is as you will get a chance to assign the location of the Virtual Machine (VM) box later. The 'Name and operating system' portion (above) has an additional box showing the default location of the Virtual 'Machine Folder'. As you can below see the left panel is almost blank.Īfter clicking on 'New', the Create Virtual Machine window will open up. The 6.0.4 version shown by toqabaqci's post, but it works the same. When you open 6.0.8 it looks different than Toqabaqci's post uses Oracle VM Virtual Box ver 6.0.4, but ver 6.0.8 is the most recent and what available from the link. If you have not already down so, you can download the Oracle VM Virtual Box (click on 'Windows hosts'), either at the link I provided are the same link at the bottom of toqabaqci's post. The Oracle VM software will not work if you move the files to different location than where they were extracted, (at least I know this to be true with the Windows 95.iso file if you move them the process will stall.

Wherever the files are extracted, leave then there. Regardless of what you use to extract the rar files, The next bit of instruction is strange, but necessary. These files will be extracted from their rar format, as an ISO and img file of the same names I use 7-Zip. Click on the file Extract>Extract all and you will get two rar files, the Windows ISO, 'Windows 95 English.rar' and the 3 1/2' floppy disk image file, 'Windows 95a.rar'. The 'Download All' will be a zip files called 'Windows 95.zip'. Both can be had through a link at the bottom of toqabaqci's post Download Choose 'Download All', and you will get both files. The necessity for both files is not explained in the article, as it does not mention the 3 1/2 image file until you are in the middle of the install. I am going to reference toqabaqci's post, so you will need both if you want to complete the installationįirst you will need to down a Windows 95 ISO and an image (.img) file of the Windows 95 3 1/2' installation floppy disk. I did it because I have always been interested in computers and Windows operating systems, starting with early DOS and I am somewhat nostalgic of that part of my life when I used Windows 95. Why anyone would want to this, I'm not sure. How to Install Windows 95 in VirtualBox on Windows 10 The reason for this post, is to clarify some of the procedure so the install will be successful. This article is a followup to an article by toqabaqci titled.

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