You should hear some of the comments I get when I go into the local coffee shop to use the wifi internet with it. Thank you so much!!! I have my old floppies in a frame on the wall no way to install them. Hi thanks a lot for software offered they help me remake my old travel Texas available regards. Very kind of you, but the disk images are damaged.
Just mount image 6 and run "dir". I tried to install with them and windows won't launch; a bunch of its executables are zero-length. This works well when you need to bypass the windows 98 upgrades disc setup programs request to verify your right to use it. And by the way, cool website. Okay, so the install of Windows 3.
The effect is particularly noticeable when going into Windows 3. EXE by itself does it help? If so, the autoexec might just be wrong. Having a problem trying to put this on an old Dell Latitude. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to install Windows 3. This will restart your computer and begin the setup program. Is there something I need to do to make these floppies bootable or something before I copy the image over to them?
That's weird. I just tested it in VirtualBox 4. Mode would not boot for a full 1. It also gives you those funny errors like this:. I am 60 years old. I really need Windows 3. Without getting technical coz I'd only confuse myself!!! Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!! Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC.
I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? THese are great! Thanks so much. I have never been allowed to properly install windows from scratch well, I did do a reinstall of XP but that's different but now I can expirence what it was like to install from DOS from scratch, thanks thanks so so sos sooooooo MUCH!
Hey, do you know if I would be able to run this version of windows off of a USB on a modern laptop that I took the C: drive out of? Great to have these images - I have the floppies, but no floppy drive. Funny they're still called floppies when real floppies disappeared long before these came out.
Floppies were the real deal when tape drives cost thousands. Sic transit omnia. Thanks for these 3. Time to go total nostalgia. I get these weird 'Library file damaged' errors when I try to use certain aspects of windows or open certain programs. Any ideas what is causing this??
I know this is a late comment but thanks for the Win3. If you're installing Win3. DRV on my harddisk. For colors do I just edit the system. I have P1 system and have installed windows 3. Can any one tell what would be the problem of having this message and what can we do to resolve the same. Thanx for this I hace images of all tthe previous versions but the DoS files were on a CD thatgot brokken my history is now compete.
Thank Thanks and Thanks again. Any answers to that. Check out my ideea here Sir, I believe you are in the wrong place That's like asking why anyone would ever want to own a NES anymore because the newer systems are so much 'better' Kirsle Hey, I did not know you could tell me a program to format floppys.
Dos to me that does not fit on a floppy disk. I downloaded this because I need the old Cardfile program to get at some old personal addresses and contact details from my original Win 3.
I have these on a CD somewhere, in a. You did a great job on this VM. If anybody's looking for software to load up on this for the full effect we have a large library of this over at WinWorld. If you would like to view various other old DOS operating systems, I found these pages. So what's the easiest method to transfer files two and from the VM, do you have to make a floppy image of anything you want to copy than mount it?
Hi, hy host is Ubuntu, and I'm running dos and win 3. Do you know any workaround for sharing files beterrn host and guest in this case? Other ideas:. Great page, glad to see such a current maintained website in relation to MS-DOS, and as I can see from the navigation menu on the left, much more.
Needed pure MS-DOS disk images to teach a strong foundation in using computers in general, and to build from there into current technologies while showing ties and connections to the legendary MS-DOS along the way, once again, glad I found this site. I will be coming by often. Thank you! On this page I have an "unpacked" Windows 3. It will not be directly bootable, however. BTW: I used a command similar to this to automagically mount and copy all files from the Win3.
Hi, This is really great. I have been looking for windows 3. Just to remember how far the computer world has come in a very short time. Its good you got it here for download.
I will try it out. Another question I have is this. I am very new to virtualBox and want to give it a go. If I have an image of my windows 8 box and I want to restore this on a virtual box, how do I go about this? I hope you will be able to enlighten me on this. I read a post asking why would anyone want to run this old OS.
I go back to 3. I still have it running on a old Dell Optiplex slim line. I know its going to die one of these days, so this site has put the bug in me to get on a newer machine..
I also run a similar vintage Optiplex tower with Win98, using it as a file storage machine. The fun part of 6. Anyone remember the old game of Eliza?
Vista, hands down, but this old stuff is a kick to fool with. I purchased my first computer in late During the 's I wrote a complete set of accounting programs while being an Accounting Manager. Sure, the PCs today are better but not faster for the work I was doing. I recently fired up an old Windows 98 computer and my TRS portable and both work very well. But I could not recoup an old IBM desktop running win 3.
Now I'm writing a similar set of programs that work with win 95 to win 8 and trying to get my previous stuff in text format. I am looking t install Dos 6. I have downloaded and installed Virtualbox as per your suggestion. I have attempted to create VM and point it to the unzipped Dos 6. Am I doing something wrong? VB seems to be looking for an optical file and doesn't like the.
Please help as I really need this to work. Thank you in advance. And then mount the floppy. Has nobody noticed that the Windows 3. The MS-DOS floppies are fine, but three files on the Windows floppies are corrupt Windows Setup brings up an "Unable to read file" error , and the files on the Windows floppies are arranged incorrectly across the disks. For example, Setup will ask for Disk 2, and you stick it in, and then later it will ask for Disk 2 again, at which point you actually need to stick in Disk 3, because for whatever reason some files that are supposed to be on Disk 2 are on Disk 3 instead.
This happens across a couple other disks, too. I got ahold of this version of Windows 3. Windows 3. When you get a "Can't read file" error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. I think it's really cool to get some the old 90's stuff running again on modern hardware. Unfortunately it keeps crashing as soon as I start any virtual machine.
I've also tried to create one from scratch. It seems like a terribly unstable product What are the specs on the Windows 7 machine? VirtualBox as a product is really stable; I haven't had any issues with it.
If your computer is like 10 years, get a new one. Hi Kirsle, Thanks for your reply. If my computer was 10 years old, there would be no need for a VM since a computer from that era should be perfectly capable to run Windows 3.
So that shouldn't be a problem. VirtualBox just keeps crashing every time. That worked like a charm. We are looking for users and 10 developers to start , from all over the world who want to use DOS and if we find them, it will be back updated and free, of course. The new software for this OS will be available, too. If you are interested — contact us: dosrenewal gmail. When prompted mount Disk8. Press Enter to complete Windows 3. With MagicISO create blank 1.
Add oakcdrom. Write floppy image file oakcdrom. Run VMWare b. Start virtual computer d. Mount oakcdrom. Add the files from Windows 3. Start virtual computer to boot to DOS b. Mount win To install Windows 3. Press enter to start e. Windows 3. To start Windows 3. Wow you guys are great and quick. From reading my question I could have explained better. I have and external floppy drive and when I connected it to my laptop it would not install dos. My laptop could read floppies but would not install.
I have an older hp laptop that originally had windows XP. I was attempting to install dos and windows so I could give the laptop to my grandson and run programs that needed at least win Quartermaster said:.
If you need I have full versions of all windows from 3. From looking online I wound why no one has put dos 6. It would make it better if a windows version like 3.
Like you I tried to install win 95 with no success. I just check and it was win 95 upgrade also. At this point I would pay someone to use my floppies so no violations and create the CD. I am about at my wits end. I am going to try what you did and see what happens. You said it the laptop could read floppies but could not install from them Does the laptop have a boot menu where you select what device to boot from? You might see an option at startup.
If not your might be able to select it from the BIOS menu. Insert the DOS 6. Boot computer and select option to boot from floppy drive Can you do that? I am going to try that this evening. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts S. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs.
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