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br50000

As title. Seems like Autorun.inf is missing so it is unbootable. I have to install it through MS-DO 6.22. Can someone please fix the problem?

MSFacts101

Microsoft Windows 95 discs that were retail are not bootable and you will need to use the provided bootdisk (if there is one provided).
With OEM discs it contains the bootdisk on the CD.

Also Autorun.inf is used only when you are in Windows itsself to tell it to open the Autorun or Setup.

WinPC

Actually, the original version of Windows 95 did not have the ability to boot from CD-ROM, not with the Retail copies nor with the OEM copies, not even the later versions of Windows 95 (Windows 95 OSR 2, Windows 95 OSR 2.1, and Windows 95 OSR 2.5).

Rather than booting directly from CD-ROM, Microsoft instead supplied a bootable floppy disk to boot up the system to allow the user to create and/or manage hard disk partitions, format hard disk partitions, and then (presumably) run Windows 95 Setup from the Windows 95 CD-ROM, but it was not until Windows 98 that the Windows CD-ROMs were bootable.

Jecag · Last edited by Jecag on Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Revoked.

soulman

Jecag wrote:

How in god's name did you come to that rediculous conclusion? AUTORUN.INF does NOT MAKE ANY CD BOOTABLE. AUTORUN.INF only works on machines running Microsoft Windows, and it used only for adding a few menu options, a damn icon, and at worst something to execute once the CD is inserted. You will NOT find an AUTORUN.INF file on any bootable CD that's not a copy of Microsoft Windows or MS-DOS. Go install ubuntu and tell me if you find an AUTORUN.INF file 8-)

And second off the solution is easy, just get an MS-DOS 6.22 or Windows 95 bootdisk (as in a floppy image), boot off of it and use SETUP.EXE off the CD.

EDIT: Fixed Typo.

Now now now, he probably hasn't heard of bootsectors before (which nearly everybody has done). If you wanted a bootable Windows 95 CD you could open the ISO in ultraiso and use the MSDos 6.22 Bootdisk with CD drivers as the boot image.

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