I bought a used hard drive on eBay for an old laptop. Even though it's been reformatted (format c: /u) with the DOS 6.22 setup disk, when I go to install Windows 95, it's pulling the old user's name ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has ...

On August 24, 2025, tech enthusiasts commemorated three decades since Windows 95's debut—ushering in the now-ubiquitous Start menu. Yet, dissatisfaction looms over Windows 11, as users grapple with ...

Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...

This article lists some solutions that will help you fix Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support USB or IEEE 1394 port error while installing ...

yes, its the same computer and I don't give up easily. I am sure about the 1.72 format, but what I'm not sure about is what kind of image writer if any I should be using. I also tried several ...

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95, with help from the Rolling Stones "Start me Up." The song choice was prophetic. For better or worse, the launch of Windows 95 was the beginning of a ...