With my old 486 laptop running windows 95, i have an IDE hard drive running on it.
When i take it out and i boot it up, of course it sais insert boot cd.
but if i put an IDE cd-rom in place of the hdd and boot off a dos or win 95 boot, can i put in a old dos cd-rom and play it if it has no install require :blink: :help: ment?

1. You err... take the hard drive out of your laptop (why on earth???).
2. You boot from CD-ROM/Bootdisk
3. After boot you remove the CD-rom and put in another one and play a game of it
4. It works.
5. You're ... surprised?

This is the way it has always worked. In the old days when PC's didn't have harddrive's you'd boot from a floppy containing the OS. AFter boot this would reside in memory and you swapped the disks to start your program/game.

yeah i knew dat.
I have the windows 95 cd-rom and boot disk, and can get all versions of boot disks at www.bootdisk.com
So when you boot from the Windows 95 cd-rom is it like the real one or the ms-dos 1? :blink: :sick:

I don't even remember any more, I rarely used windows 95 (still prefered DOS till windows 98), but I am sure that it was not DOS 1. If I remember correctly it was DOS 6.11

thanks i just didnt know you could boot win 95 from a cd

and im not bloody stupid :tomato: <<u

However, you do have a slightly irritating habit of double-posting... And Reup just misunderstood you there. Your initial post wasn't exactly lucid, you see.:)

well im not the one who always shuts down peoples threads you know

But you are the one who makes topics that shouldn't be there. :)

well troubleshooting and compatibility are basicly the same thing