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Windows 95: Windows protection error after setup

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I am trying to set up Windows 95 on a VM using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with a 8 GB VHD. Everything works fine until it finishes setup, but it when it tries to start Windows for the first time, it says, "While initializing device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."

I have tried booting up in safe mode and have formatted the VHD and reinstalled it several times, but I can't figure out why it won't work. It worked fine once before, but the hard drive it was on went bad, so I have to set it up again.

Thank you for any help/solutions.

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Usually IOS results from too much RAM; generally you'll get this error with more than 512MB RAM.

Try reducing the available amount of RAM on the virtual setup and try again. Windows 95 is a very fast OS on hardware from 1998 and up, so I wouldn't allocate more than 384MB RAM.

N7I2S5 said:
I am trying to set up Windows 95 on a VM using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with a 8 GB VHD. Everything works fine until it finishes setup, but it when it tries to start Windows for the first time, it says, "While initializing device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer."

I have tried booting up in safe mode and have formatted the VHD and reinstalled it several times, but I can't figure out why it won't work. It worked fine once before, but the hard drive it was on went bad, so I have to set it up again.

Thank you for any help/solutions.


Have you tried disabling Hardware Virtualization? That mostly fixes the problem :wahoo: 
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Disable Hardware Virutalization. Also, don't allocate more than 384MB RAM for the virtual machine. If you try to install it on a physical computer, it will probably crash because you have a CPU with P6 support. If you use a Windows 95 OSR2.5 disc, it will not crash.

sdfox 7 said:
Usually IOS results from too much RAM; generally you'll get this error with more than 512MB RAM.

Try reducing the available amount of RAM on the virtual setup and try again. Windows 95 is a very fast OS on hardware from 1998 and up, so I wouldn't allocate more than 384MB RAM.


Holy *** man, thanks a damn lot. That solved my problem. You're my hero of today =)

Win2K said:
Disable Hardware Virutalization. Also, don't allocate more than 384MB RAM for the virtual machine. If you try to install it on a physical computer, it will probably crash because you have a CPU with P6 support. If you use a Windows 95 OSR2.5 disc, it will not crash.


I just started my virtual Win 95 for the 1st time on VMWare 9. The Windows 95 Logo comes up fine but then I get the same error " Windows protection error"
I have set my RAM at about 250 MB. It doesn't help. How do I disable Hardware Actualization?. Is it done within the guest system in VMWare or in the main Host system? ( I am on Windows 7)

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Ittiandro

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