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Asked: 2021-12-05T03:39:57+00:00 In:

Installing Windows 3.1 On Usb Flash Drive

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I’m not sure this will even work. Ive played around a bit and was successful in installing freeDOS onto my 8g flash drive. I am wanting, for no particular reason, to install an old version of windows. I tried win95 and it would freeze up every time the installer got about 25% into it. I obtained a copy of win 3.1 and it checks the disk and copies the files, but stops when it comes up and says that it is loading windows and the rest of the setup. No error message it just stops. I let it sit for half a hour or so and nothing. Im just playing around and its not that important. I just thought the idea of carrying around my own OS on a flash drive i could boot from any computer would be novel. I believe that there are light linux OS out there that i could try next, i just wanted an old windows out of nastagia, although my friend says i might as well install a virus on it rather than win95. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

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      It seems you would need some way of making a ramdisk to store the dos files on and then running windows 3.1 off of the usb drive and disabling the windows 3.1 32 bit disk access. about the freezing: This may be able to be fixed by setting certain command line switches while running the setup program (I haven’t installed windows 3.1 recently but if i recall this was somewhat of a common problem.) are you installing from REAL dos or a dos prompt in windows?
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