Want to install windows 95 on my laptop ,is it possible?

I have recently installed Windows 95 on a small machine that was made in 2006. This machine does not have a floppy or CD drive.

I created a bootable pendrive with DOS on it, and used that to create and format a primary partition with FAT on the target machine. I also used this to make the hard disk on the target machine bootable into DOS.

Next I downloaded Damn Small Linux (DSL) from

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

and created a CD. I booted from this CD on another machine (with a CD drive) and used its feature for creating a bootable DSL pendrive to create such a drive. I used a 256 MB pendrive. The pendrive has two partitions. One is about 50 MB and holds DSL, the other is the rest of the drive and is formatted as FAT.

Next I copied all the Windows 95 install files from the install media onto the FAT partition on my DSL pendrive.

I booted the target machine from the DSL pendrive, and copied the Windows 95 install files into a directory on the target hard disk.

Next, I booted the target machine from its hard disk into DOS, and then found the Windows 95 setup.exe and ran that. The target machine then proceeded to install Windows 95 from the directory I had set up on the hard disk using DSL.

I had to do some Internet searches to find the drivers for some of the devices, but I got the whole machine working.

Note: if your laptop uses a SATA drive, I doubt whether any of this will work. I doubt whether DOS, Windows 95 or even DSL will be happy with SATA. I could be wrong, but Windows 95 predates SATA.

What on earth for? Windows 95 did not work correctly when it was still supported without all the latest updates from Microsoft. It needs DOS to run it. Neither of these will be able to control the drivers for any current machine as it has not been supported with these updates since Windows 98 was established. And you can not boot from a virtual partition, it does not exist until the main operating system is fully running. You would have no network connectivity as it would not run a current network card, nor does its' standard install have ANY tcp/ip without third party add-ons, Microsoft then wanted everyone to use their own netbui protocol, which could not cross a network boundary. It is the current OS which is running all this for the virtual drive. Quite honestly you would be better using a pen and paper for everything you want to do. You would get more results.

You can try installing using VirtualBox.

Download VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/

and load the floppy image.

yup it is posible using vmWare tools.