Windows install.ima from floppy. Download the Windows 95 boot disk in iso format. I can give you the steps to create a bootable Windows 95 disk which should work. Windows 95 Floppy Disc My friend has a windows 95 floppy disc that was used to back-up an old computer, which she no longer has in her possession. She needs to get the data off of the floppy disc, but doesn't know how to do it. ![]() In case you were wondering. And those were thirteen of those special Distribution Media Format floppies, which are specially formatted to hold more data than a normal 1.44MB floppy disc. The high-capacity floppies reduced the floppy count by two, which resulted in a tremendous savings in cost of manufacturing and shipping. (I'm sure there are the conspiracy-minded folks who think that DMF was invented as an anti-piracy measure. It wasn't; it was a way to reduce the number of floppy disks. That the disks were difficult to copy was a side-effect, not a design goal.) (For comparison, Windows 3.1 came on six floppies. Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two. And yesterday, one of my colleagues reminded me that Windows NT setup asked for the floppy disks out of order! I guess it never occurred to them that they could renumber the disks.). The format worked by stuffing more tracks/sectors per track on the disk. This information is stored in the BPB in the boot record of the disk, but IIRC some BIOSes could only handle specific 'official' values. ![]() (80×18 = 1.44MB) It was possible to reliably get it up to 1.72MB (82×21), but Microsoft was a little conservative. There was a great tool called 'fdformat' that would let you play with this, as well as sector skew and such for performance. Another one manager to fit 2 MB on a floppy, but it varied the number of sectors per track depending on the region of the disk. No BIOS could handle that, so it always required a TSR to read the disks. The greatest thing about moving from floppies to CDs was the improved reliability. There was nothing worse that getting to disk 13 and having it be unreadable, or worse just getting bad data I don’t miss misaligned head heads, dusty disks, etc. I remember hearing somewhere that the failure rate for floppies were something like 1 in a 100. At the same time, some of them seems to last forever. I know of an Atari 800 XL that has been booting, every morning off, the same floppy disk for the last 20 years. WhenI worked at Teradyne we got one of the early shiny new VaxStatations — an actual 'real' computer with a 'real' operating system that you could carry around! To bad it didn’t come preloaded with the software — IIRC, 45 disks for VMS, plus roughly the same number for the C compiler and linker. And it wasn’t smart enough to check the disk numbers: if you put them into the machine in the wrong order you had to start all the way from the beginning again:-( Trivia: the later Vaxstation 2000 had the option of swapping locally or over ethernet. In my case, with a 'fast' connection and a slow disk, they were each about as fast. My first full-time job at Microsoft was as a Windows builder (specifically, for the Win9x platforms). One of my very first tasks as a full-timer was to verify that master floppies for Win95 so that they could send them off to be mass-produced, boxed, and shipped (I was hired as a full timer just as Win95 was getting ready to ship). Talk about knowing that you have to do your job right – the last thing I wanted was to miss something stupid and screw up Win95 distribution. Thankfully, all was well. And, I still work here. Happy 10th birthday Win95 on 8.24.05! -Christopher [MSFT] •. For comparison, Windows 3.1 came on six > floppies. Windows NT 3.1 came on twenty-two. > And yesterday, one of my colleagues reminded > me that Windows NT setup asked for the floppy > disks out of order! I guess it never occurred > to them that they could renumber the disks. This begs for a 'what if you did that' thought experiment. I imagine that reading the floppies out of order wasn’t an original design goal but happened as a result of a change either near or after the first release of the product had shipped. If you elect to use your Gmail or Google Apps account for your incoming email as well, you'll have all your email in one convenient place. Benefits You have the option of having Google store and index the emails you send via its SMTP server, so all your sent emails will be searchable and backed-up on Google's servers. Settings Google's SMTP server requires authentication, so here's how to set it up: NOTE: Before you begin, consider investigating your mail client or application’s security rating, according to Google. 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