How do you install disks into windows 95?

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  • 9. December 2021 at 7:45 #9270
    Sepritt
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    How do you install Disk Drives into windows 95? I can’t seem to figure out how to do it!

    Here what i put in:
    imgmount C: [directory of windows 95.img]
    mount D: [directory of folder containing games]

    Drive D doesn’t show up in windows 95.

    9. December 2021 at 8:18 #9271
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    [autoexec]
    @Echo Off
    imgmount c /storage/emulated/0/Games/win95.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
    imgmount d /storage/emulated/0/Games/dune2000.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
    boot -l c

    9. December 2021 at 11:49 #9272
    Al ex
    Keymaster

    Depends on the size of your disk images.
    If you need some examples, I’ve already posted a bunch of empty hdd images with according parameters included in this thread: https://magicbox.imejl.sk/forums/topic/windows-95/page/2/#post-7967

    10. December 2021 at 7:14 #9273
    Sepritt
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    Both commands got an error saying
    “The image must be on a host or local drive”
    This happens a lot while mounting images

    10. December 2021 at 10:54 #9274
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    If there is space or special character in the path then surround path with ”

    Here are images with correct sizes, these images work with both cores

    https://sites.google.com/site/dotalshoff/games/dosbox

    11. December 2021 at 15:52 #9275
    Sepritt
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    No it doesn’t have any quotes

    11. December 2021 at 15:56 #9276
    Sepritt
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    Drive D finally cooperated and mounted the iso (this is for starcraft)
    But the windows 95 image file still isn’t cooperating.

    11. December 2021 at 16:57 #9277
    Al ex
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    You can post your mounting commands here, so we can check. And what size is your C drive image?

    I also only just realized that you are trying to mount a local directory as drive D in Win95. That won’t work, because Win95 requires you to only use iso images. It’s really annoying and rather tricky, but it’s the only way to get Win95 up and running in Dosbox.

    12. December 2021 at 5:32 #9282
    Sepritt
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    mount C /storage/emulated/0/winemu/new
    imgmount A /storage/emulated/0/winemu/new/win95.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,520
    imgmount D /storage/emulated/0/winemu/new/Starc.iso -t iso -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023

    “winemu” is a folder i use to dump anything related to emulation and “new” is where starcraft (starc.iso) and the windows 95 disk image is

    12. December 2021 at 5:34 #9283
    Sepritt
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    I changed it up a bit but it still wouldn’t work
    I already used drive C as the local directly so that i can mount drive A (win95 disk) but i just won’t work

    12. December 2021 at 5:38 #9284
    Sepritt
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    Update: Windows 95 finally boot up but drive D still isn’t showing up

    12. December 2021 at 10:30 #9287
    Al ex
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    You have to mount both C and D drive iso images with the imgmount command. My autoexec section looks like this (Win95 on a 512 MB image, Diablo and MM6 on a 2 GB image, both on external sd card):

    imgmount c /storage/0000-0000/Games/PC/Win95/c.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,32,520
    imgmount d /storage/0000-0000/Games/PC/Win95/2GB_MM6_Diablo.img -t hdd -fs fat -size 512,63,64,1023
    boot -l c

    12. December 2021 at 10:43 #9289
    Sepritt
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    That’s what i did at first, it worked but after putting the extra parameters (t, fs, size) it jut gave the the error “The image must be on a host or local drive”. And even if it actually booted drive D never actually shows up :/

    12. December 2021 at 10:43 #9290
    Sepritt
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    Wait how did you put files in an image file?

    12. December 2021 at 11:18 #9292
    Al ex
    Keymaster

    On PC, with UltraISO. It’s shareware, but has an unlimited trial period.

    You then copy the iso onto the image file, and use something like Virtual Clone drive in Win95 to mount the iso as virtual cd rom.

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