Oct 21, 2011 I have a Windows 95 CD from when I had an old computer. I tried to install Windows 95 from CD (in a Virtual machine). Unfortunately the CD is damaged and cannot be completely read. Is it possible to get a new CD, or download an ISO or something?
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Tested on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with Service Pack 1,worked fine. Here is what you are looking for: This ISO is not authentic, files dated 20 June 2003 and bootable part is self-made. I suppose most of this 2003 year ISOs which can be found on net was made from 'All Windows DVD' release by XiSO team. It have a really impressive list of full Windows distributives but all files dated by Jule 2003 (I suppose that there was another version of this DVD from June 2003 too). And as far as I know no one of Windows 95 CDs was not bootable since BIOSes of those time simply not supported CD Boot feature.
Although I'm sure that at least 95 Retail should be delivered with a bootable floppy disk, otherwise how else to install it on the new PC? And I, like the topicstarter, don't lose hope to find such floppy disk. Does anyone have it? I'll have to check but I could have sworn one of my copies of Win 95 booted from CD. Though the typical way I'd install would be to boot up the Windows 95 boot floppy (it's the same one as the floppy set) which loads up the CDROM drivers, and you simply change over to the CD drive and run setup. Since you are trying to run this in a Virtual Machine this would probably be the simplest way rather than looking for an uncommon or 3rd party bootable CD. The disks are quite common to find on BootDisk sites.