Partition HD and load Windows 95
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hang-the-9
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You are better off running Windows 95 in a virtual machine than installing it directly on the computer, or get a second old computer and run Win 95 on that. Your current computer will very likely not have any drivers for Win 95, you'll probably need to get a Pentium 4 or older system for that.
You can setup a virtual machine using https://www.virtualbox.org/
You can setup a virtual machine using https://www.virtualbox.org/
WHATSWRONGNOW
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It is very easy to partition a HD:
1. Back up your data. The partitioning process shouldn't delete any data, but you can't be too careful when working with your hard drive.
2. Right click “Computer” and choose "Management" to get into Disk Management.Now you can see a list of your existing disks.
3. Right-click the disk, and select Shrink Volume.Type in the amount of space you want to shrink the disk by. The number you choose depends on what you want to use the other partition for. If you plan to dual-boot another version of Windows, for example, you'll want a lot of space (Windows 7 requires at least 16GB of available space, for example); but if you're setting aside room for an emergency recovery partition, you won't need nearly as much space.
4. Once you've cleared the necessary space, it should show up in the Disk Management window as Unallocated Space. Right-click this entry, select New Simple Volume, and let the resulting wizard guide you through the remaiing steps of the process. Generally, you'll want to format the new partition as NTFS.
1. Back up your data. The partitioning process shouldn't delete any data, but you can't be too careful when working with your hard drive.
2. Right click “Computer” and choose "Management" to get into Disk Management.Now you can see a list of your existing disks.
3. Right-click the disk, and select Shrink Volume.Type in the amount of space you want to shrink the disk by. The number you choose depends on what you want to use the other partition for. If you plan to dual-boot another version of Windows, for example, you'll want a lot of space (Windows 7 requires at least 16GB of available space, for example); but if you're setting aside room for an emergency recovery partition, you won't need nearly as much space.
4. Once you've cleared the necessary space, it should show up in the Disk Management window as Unallocated Space. Right-click this entry, select New Simple Volume, and let the resulting wizard guide you through the remaiing steps of the process. Generally, you'll want to format the new partition as NTFS.
Moonstick2
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Somehow I don't think the OP would want to format a partition as NTFS if the intention is to install Win95 on it.
As suggested, virtualbox is probably the way forward - http://thecuriousgeek.org/?p=67 and http://eduardprogramming.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/20140120-windows-95-installation-on.html give some guidance on how to install Win95 using it.
If it's very important that the software runs properly (unclear if this is just a couple of old games or utilities, or critical software for which no new alternative exists), then a PC built out of suitably old bits from eBay would be a much safer bet.
As suggested, virtualbox is probably the way forward - http://thecuriousgeek.org/?p=67 and http://eduardprogramming.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/20140120-windows-95-installation-on.html give some guidance on how to install Win95 using it.
If it's very important that the software runs properly (unclear if this is just a couple of old games or utilities, or critical software for which no new alternative exists), then a PC built out of suitably old bits from eBay would be a much safer bet.
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