Installing & Exploring Microsoft Windows 95!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2023
- It's 1995, your computer is broken and you need to start from scratch... so let's go! We have our boot floppy and OEM Windows 95 Installation CD in hand... how hard could it be? Let's find out!! #nostalgia #retropc #aopen #vintage #windows95 #microsoft #windows
Ah memories. Started using PCs just with DOS. Man I loved DOS 6. But moved to Windows 3.1 and then Windows for Warehouses, I mean Workgroups, and 95. 95 was a huge game changer. A lot of it didn’t work but a lot did. It only got better from there. Today, I had to install two label printers on one Windows 11 PC. Stuff so old, it has Windows 95 drivers. The driver had an InstallShield interface. Haven't seen that in forever. Buy Windows 11 installed both printers, together, no conflicts and it just worked. This works today because of the work done over all these years to keep improving. Thanks Microsoft.
Windows for Warehouses Hahaha!! Seriously, a belly laugh right there. Yes you are right this system laid the groundwork for our Windows OS's of today.
There's something just so satisfying about going back in time to watch the old Win95 install. It's hard to believe I graduated high school the year Win95 came out. I worked in a store that custom built PCs just like the one in your video, so I've done many Win95 installs. Nice trip back to 95.
Absolutely... another reason why I started this channel! I love going back and reliving these amazing moments.
Back when I was young enough to use Windows 95 I wasn't quite smart enough to install operating systems (yet) 🤪. Appreciate you using true hardware to replicate the original installation experience 😀
That's the one thing I will always strive for.... Is always using original hardware. :)
When I was young, around 6 years old (I'm 19 now), I already was into ICT. When I was around the age of 13, I discovered other operating systems like Win95 and virtual machines.
When I got my own place, I want to get some old hardware to experience the true experience of the older days!
That is absolutely awesome!!! I'm glad to hear people are interested in the older tech and will take the time to experience it. Have fun while doing it too! :)
So nostalgic. Payed $2200 for my win 95 pc in the mid 90s. Playing Tomb Raider and Dos games fond memories. Love win 95 theme tune " good times"
Yes!!! I used to spend hours watching the bonus music videos.
I once had a Microcomputer applications instructor back in 1995, when I was in High School. We started school with some old fashioned IBM computers that ran on a super old fashioned version of a Windows environment before Windows 3.1. He hated these old IBM machines and would often lose his sanity and gripe like hell over them. We came back from the weekend, in the early October month, and all those old IBM computers were long gone. There were some brand spanking new, tall, beautiful Gateway computers in their place now. He handed all of us a brand new copy of the Microsoft Windows 95 OS, and he had us all install it in each PC, and explained exactly what going on, as we inserted a floppy boot disk, wrote in a few commands on the command prompt, and force the computer to boot from the Windows setup CD in the CD ROM drive. He referred to all those new Gateway PCs as “IBM clones,” and nothing else. He wouldn’t even call them workstations or computers.
He also had us all install Office, as well as other new Software, after the Windows Install.
The man was born in Mexico, had a heavy accent, and was a beast at working on those computers. His last name was Canales.
Best instructor ever!!!
Thanks for sharing this memory. I love hearing these stories... It sounds like he had an impact on your computing experience :)
I finally decided to take another look at my old Intergraph TD-25 computer, which I purchased in late 1996. I don't think I finished the installation correctly because a couple of weeks ago while starting this "Retro-Project" I learned that the computer system didn't recognize my CD's: I failed to install the CD Player. Anyway I am glad I found your channel and maybe I could get tips to complete my project.
I've never heard of that system before - I'm going to take a look! Welcome to the channel, great to have you along :)
Man do i remember our first household pc, it was a pizza box pc. An Olivetti with matching keyboard, mouse and display! My mom got it for my dad, and the BIG new feature of this pc was Windows 95! It was a Pentium 1 75mhz with 32mb of ram! Good days! I played a lot of dos and early windows games like Deadly Tide, Need for Speed, Pod and Dungeon Keeper! All great games! What a trip down memory lane :p
That's an awesome memory! Pizza box pc... Now I need to get my hands on one of those. My first Windows 95 experience was a 486 dx4 100 which worked but I broke everything doing it. When we upgraded to our Pentium 200...my goodness... Life was good Hahaha.
Awesome video! Would be pretty neat to see another video doing the OSR2 upgrade installation. I think that had better usb support
Thanks!! For sure. Once I was finally able to get past the issues - upgrading the OS and getting the hardware installed will be an awesome time.
That problem with NO CD after initial boot was a real problem with 95. This is why I used to format the C drive manually and copy the files from the CD to the hard drive then run install from the hard drive. Learnt this trick the hard way. I believe you only need the win95 subdirectory of the CD.
Very smart!! I mean I edited the config.sys and autoexec.bat to make it work but just imagine it being 1995... and going 'ummmm what do I do now?'
It's called Cabing the drive, In IT it was the suggested way to setup Win 9x. First you format the drive, so "Fdisk", then reboot, then "Format C: /s/u" . After "MKDIR C:\CABS" , Then Copy "D:\Win95 C:\CABS" , Reboot and go "C:\Cabs\setup" .
So smart. Seriously.. Why I didn't think about it I don't know. Then again, it's been 28 years since I had to install Windows 95 haha!
@@mccrh7737 I never got the "/s" parameter for formatting. I mean once windows setup has run it will write system files and boot record to the C drive anyway so the /s makes formatting a tad longer than it needs to be. I've only ever used /s for making bootable floppies, there it is useful.
It was always a good idea to copy those install CDs to the drive anyway because invariably you will later need some driver that is on the CD but not installed by default. Just point the installer at the local folder and done. Saved having to keep the CDs with the machines. It also saved having to keep the install media packages with the serial numbers at the PCs. That stuff was valuable and would walk. This was a big issue where I worked until the VLK system came about, and then all they had to do was protect the one key. Oh it still leaked. Or got stolen. Of course. I had a lot of my own PCs in those days and made sure I always had my own personal Technet subscription and licenses in case our IT ever questioned the licenses I was using at home.
This must have been the "C" version of Windows 95 because i don't remember all this "Plug and Play" goodness till Windows 98. That was one of the real benefits of WIndows 98 - full plug and play support.
That's a good call out, I will have to check what version I used.
I love Windows 95! Our first PC was a HP Kayak XA PC and pretty sure it had it cuz according to images I found of the unit, the sticker said both 95 and NT 4.0 on it, pretty sure we never used NT 4.0. Could be wrong tho as I don't recall ever using it, for all I know it could've been a work PC LOL😆
Oh well, at least I remember playing on my 1999 Compaq Presario PC which we got afterwards (although our personal videos show the HP in the background in 2004 for some odd reason🤔)!
Haha that's awesome! Yes there were a lot of production stickers that had the Windows 95/NT 4.0 logo on them, similar to Windows 98/2000. Meant to imply it could be used for both operating systems related to home or business use :).
Man those ESS Audiodrive cards. God I hated them. My wife had one for a couple weeks and I literally threw it in the trash and tracked down a "cheap" soundblaster after the frustration with it. I could do a clean install of '95, go through the process of installing its driver (if Win95 tried to install its own driver, there was no fixing it, period - you had to nuke and pave and start over), actually HEAR SOUND - CD playback, multimedia, Windows game sound, etc., and once you rebooted after installing the driver...no sound. Card would have the ol' "Unknown multimedia device" and installing the sound driver again made no difference. Your alternative was to reinstall Windows again. Our "fix" so she could play Diablo, was to simply not reboot the computer. Picked up the SB at CompUSA and that was that.
Lol wow...I will say that I was surprised considering that I had the floppy disk it was still a challenge to install in this system! I only ever had SBs in my systems so I never had issues. I have heard however that this cards quality was quite good once you painstakingly got it working haha!
I still have my Gateway P5 133 16MB Ram and Matrox PCI Video card. Windows 95 and a dial up Modem. Install Crash Install. Good Times. Thanks for the Video.
Nice!!! Sounds like a great system - minus the crashing of course... But that's part of the repairing fun! And you are welcome - thanks for watching! :)
@@TheRetroRecall Reminds me that PCs in the early-2000s seemed more likely to have a buggy BIOS, my first Athlon build (socket 462) had a crashing problem until I applied the workaround as instructed by the motherboard manufacturer (Soyo) (SY-K7VTA-B) (Vcore seemed to be too high for stock with shipped BIOS)
So true, and It seemed we were their testers and techs! Tech from those days kept us on our toes, always thinking and learning.
Just saw you guessing the IE version. If the IE was version 4 or newer, the Windows Explorer would have had the back/forward/etc options and also the „show as website“ view. It is possible to update the IE to a newer version which also enables that.
Yes - I was hesitant as v4 was an optional cd that you could get and sometimes came with later Windows 95 retail copies (Sept 1997).
Great video! I’ve never installed Windows 95; the first time I used it was in college in one of the computer labs on campus or in the library.
Such great memories!
When I first saw that my Aunt had a copy she swiped from Work.
I opened that Box......... Floppy... How THE HELL AM I GONNA COPy All of THESE!
Hahahahahah!! So.... Many.... Floppies!
I was lucky. My windows 3.1 installation and all the drivers and some multimedia stuff on a CD. Gateway saved me the windows 3.5" disk nightmare. 😂
Hahahah lucky!
@@rmcdudmk212 EArly 2ks when I got my first IT job, I scrounged EVERYwhere to build an Ultiplate Win 3.x Machine: Win32s Dos 7 extracted with USB support lol
I WAS A WIZARD! it was my first access to a high speed connection lol
@@MotownBatman that sounds like it could be fun as well as frustrating.
This is one of the best OS that I've used for long before I converted to LINUX.
I have a lot of fond memories as well!
Awesome another RR video!
Thank you and thanks for watching!!!!
Impressive video!👏👏👏👏👍☺
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
I like your content very much
Thank you!!!
Back when windows was close to the same size as FF7 on PS1.
Yes!
Well done! About a year ago I built my first retro pc with win 98. Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz, 512 mb ddr1 , geforce fx 5200 , asrock p4i65g m/b and it runs fine. I wish had my old cyrix 133mhz + win95 or my celeron 433 mhz builds but I threw them away back in the day (huge mistake!). I also had a 386dx4 with 4 mb ram with win 3.11 which i gave to a cousin..
Thanks! That sounds like a great system.
I really enjoy looking back at all the past operating systems. My very first computer was a Packard Bell with Windows 3.11, and of course we progressed up thru 95, 98 etc. The other day my gf walked in the room and seen me messing with my old eMachine with Windows XP, and called that ancient 🤣🤣
Haha! Ancient!!! Show her this video lol! :)
Great👍
Thanks!
@@TheRetroRecall thanks
Thanx for the memory lane video. I did a lot of Win 95 installs from floppy to CD ROM installs. The first version of Win 95 was a big of a dog but they seem to sort it out with Windows 95 OSR2.
No problem, that's what this channel is all about!
What is OSR2?? Operating System Revision 2?
I was the second version of Win 95 but from memory wasn't sold directly to the public. The telco I worked with had copies of it. @@klwthe3rd
Fantastic video, thanks man! I would love to see one of these of all of the Windows versions. I feel like you may have done 98, but XP, ME, Vista, 2000...The dream(s). EDIT: You totally have and I found them 😂
LOL!!! I am getting there... one OS at a time :) Glad you enjoyed :)
Eight plus three rocks
Do you mean the 8.3 format?
I love that AOpen case!
I was fortunate to get the entire system donated from a channel supporter in Halifax. She had it from original with all of the original paperwork, software etc.
@@TheRetroRecall that is the greatest thing I heard all day, people are so awesome and they can see why you have a lot of great dedicated fans. Heck, I’m one of them now!
There are really great people for sure! It's also great having you local. Ps - I'm not sure if you saw my reply, but I believe I have a CRT for you.
@@TheRetroRecall that’s awesome and can meet early this coming week. I sent ya email a couple weeks ago from my hotmail if you’re able to reply with details
Oh, I'll check my Junk folder!
Me encanta instalar los OS antiguos W3.1 / 3.11 / 95 / 98 en Diskettes.
It is quite the experience :). Floppy installations take a while, but it definitely puts you in that nostalgic moment!
Was that "joystick" at 29:32 growing, or is it just me? 🙂
LOL! No comment.
It was called File Manager in Windows 3.1. 95 introduced the Explorer.
For sure I think I corrected myself right after :)
@@TheRetroRecall then my comment was like a confirmation:D
Hey! That ess install screen is what my laptop doesn’t have……..that’s what I’m missing
I think you can get the drivers on archive.org. If you don't see them let me know!
Have you considered installing Microsoft Plus! and IE4?
I have not, but that would be a fun continuation!!
I wonder if that audio driver disk would help my compaq 1530dm no sound issue….I thought windows 95 had generic drivers for it?
I think it had partial drivers... however there are 4 components that were a part of this driver installation. It installed 1.5 of them haha! Then for the others, it messed them up somehow. I had to go uninstall them, right click on the .inf file to install the driver pack and restart the computer. Then I had to use the floppy disk to point to the Windows 95 folder continually to install. Next time - SoundBlaster 16!! :)
Hhhmmm my win 95 burned copy only said r2 so I’m not sure if that has anything to do with no sound drivers or not
Hey Michael, not too sure?? I do know that it is an ESS Audio Drive Sound Card that was in this system and it wasn't playing nice lol! I even had the driver disk that came with the computer originally :)
Hi
Can you make a video about how to install windows nt 4.0 please.
I did! It was one of my more recent videos - please check it out! :)
i have the windows 95 cd , mine says usb support ,, i just installed windows 95 very good instructions
Awesome!!! Yes the windows 95 with USB support. I don't have that version, I will have to get my hands on it :)
I can't get it to do anything with CD an when I try to do it w floppy an it gets to where it suppose to load it but instead it has 5 other choices an then wants a A:// ?
You definitely need the CD for a Windows 95 Installation. What are the 5 choices? You need a floppy disk that is able to load the CD Drivers (using config.sys / autoexec.bat files) from the floppy. I would recommend searching youtube / google on this exact subject as they have great resources / walkthroughs for you to follow :)
Hi, TheRetroRecall i just wanted to say that can you install Windows 95 with a bootable flash drive on a modern PC?
I have tested the Windows XP installation and that went well, but i don't know about Windows 95.
Please ask man.
Unfortunately you cannot due to the boot system (you will require legacy boot) and secondly, sata will not function with Windows 95. Not to mention drivers :). You would have to use Dosbox / emulation.
Thanks!
I might try to install with actual Microsoft floppy disks.
But, you can with VirtualBox right?
Yes, I believe you can - you just need to make sure that you setup the virtual box settings correctly for that era :)
I remember, when I found, that you need to copy win95 folder from CD to c: after formating disk I was a king, I was first around in my neighbourhood, who know how to install windows95 without that first annoying error with missing cdrom drive😂😂😂
Haha! Yes! You could have charged people for that advice at the time - so valuable lol! I knew how to bypass it quickly but man, what an annoyance!
@@TheRetroRecall also I remember, that in that CD sampler there was some demos, like monster truck madness, oh good times of exploring something absolutely new😃
Yes! And those bonus music vids. I'm pretty sure Microsoft got into some heat for including them on the cd haha
I've always copied the files to hard disk because every time you opened the network settings and set another hostname or DNS for example it would require you to give the Windows disc if you cancel it would throw multiple error messages about .vxd files missing in your windows directory at each boot which you had to enter away! From that moment on I copied all files to C:
I always used to as well. Moreso with Windows 98 as it always wanted the disc no matter what changes you were making.
I want to install windows 95 on a PC, do you have links to the needed materials?
thanks
Winworld.com or archive.org should have the materials needed (boot floppy, drivers, Windows 95, manuals, etc). Check out TH-cam and it can walk you through the process if you are unfamiliar. Good luck!!
@@TheRetroRecall Thanks for the help, you're a nice person.
Always try to help :)
HEHE I like how you skip over the product key.. Honestly you did not need to, you can literally put random numbers in the other fields then in the middle put a multiple of 7 and it works. You can do something similar with windows 98.
Hahah let me have my fun! :)
Wenn damals alles nicht so extrem teuer gewesen wäre, wären heute viel mehr Menschen richtig digital.
I think over time costs have gone down and yes, we are digital today in the end - however there is something really cool about having physical copies of media :)
Man windows 98 was so much easier to install
100% agreed!!
Can you install Microsoft Plus?
I most certainly can! Maybe a shorts video?
@@TheRetroRecallOh yeah please!!
Sounds good!!
please send me the pictures on the galery.
The windows gallery?
People who tried to install windows 95 to a virtual machine when watching
Haha imagine the fun they are experiencing
windows 19"95"
Released August, 1995 :)
@@TheRetroRecall :)
@@TheRetroRecall i love all windows systems they're so cool
I'm gonna guess that you are a Capricorn.
Now this is a different comment... and no - not a Capricorn :)
@@TheRetroRecall what is your actual sign?
Never had a windows 95 machine. I went from windows 3.1 to 98. I used PCs that had 95 just never had one i owned with 95.
Nice. I had 3.1, then I upgraded to 95. Broke everything lol
@@TheRetroRecall yeah my poor little Gateway 2000 with a 486 at 55mhz was not ready for the power of 95 😂
Hahaha! Yeah I discovered it the hard way. That and I didn't know what I needed to know to get it going again. I was in sooo much trouble lol
@@TheRetroRecall I didn't start messing around win installing OS until 98 and 2000 so I had time to read up on what I should be doing. Which probably caused me to avoid bricking a machine or seven. 😂
@@TheRetroRecall Yep, that was me before 1997, even when I started getting better in 1996, but that was mostly just the barebone Windows basics.