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Technology Stocks : Windows 7 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PMS Witch who wrote (32)	5/19/2009 10:31:42 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 152

Continuing investigation into Windows 7 Virtual Machine XP. . . I wanted to try my luck at installing Windows 3.1 The challenges. . . I don't have a floppy drive on my computer. (But my old machine has one.) Windows 3.1 comes on floppy disks. Windows 3.1 won't install on the DOS 7.1 that comes with Win98. DOS 5.0 comes on floppy disks. DOS 5.0 won't recognize my CD drive connected via USB. The steps. . . Create a new Virtual machine in Windows 7 Install Windows 98 Use FDISK to create an additional virtual disk "D:" Use Windows 98's networking to copy DOS 5.0 floppies to disk D: Use Windows 98's networking to copy Windows 3.1 floppies to disk D: Download a bootable CD image .ISO file of DOS 5.0 and burn it to a CD using Windows 7 Boot from the CD to DOS 5.0 Format virtual disk C: using DOS 5.0 Install system files using DOS 5.0 SYS command and the bootable DOS 5.0 CD for the system's source Boot to DOS 5.0 from the virtual drive Copy the DOS files from virtual drive D: to virtual drive C: Install Windows 3.1 from virtual drive D: Use FDISK to remove the now redundant virtual drive D: Configure Windows 3.1 Use Windows 7 Virtual Machine to shrink the Windows 3.1 virtual drive Cheers, PW. P.S. From my brief working with Windows 3.1 yesterday, I've gained an appreciation for the advances in operating systems in recent years.