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DanR201110141
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Windows 95 on Vmware Player 3.1

Hi all,

I downloaded Vmware Player 3.1 to load a Windows 95 machine.  I followed the instructions per the guidelines but I can't get to the D:\ drive to load Win 95 in DOS, invalid drive specification, either to a mounted drive or an ISO(I set it up in the BIOS, I also tried legacy emulation selection in Player menu).  I read somewhere on this forum that you can't do this in Player but I read on a later thread that you can create VM's with Player with the 3.1 release, Win 95 is an option, so I guess my question is am I wasting my time and need Workstation or am I doing something wrong?  The CD/DVD drive is an ATA drive, but it would not workwhen pointed to an ISO either, so I don't know if that is an issue.

Oh and this is loaded on Windows 7.

Thanks for your help.

Dan

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a_p_
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Welcome to the Community,

how did you setup the DOS boot disk? Which CDROM driver did you use?

André

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a_p_
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... in Re: How do I create MSDOS6.22 and Windows3.11 VMs?, I posted a sample configuration with a link to a working CDROM driver.

André

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