To copy the files, you could for example use a serial or parallel cable with INTERSRV and INTERLNK under DOS, or extract the drive from the laptop and connect it to another system. Under Linux, you can format DMF disks using fdformat and write the images directly.You can copy the images’ contents to a directory ( W95INST for example) on the laptop’s hard drive, if you have some other way of copying files there, and then run SETUP from the hard drive. If you’re running Windows, is supposed to be able to write such images to floppies. These are disks, storing 1.68 MB of data instead of the usual 1.44 MB (on high-density 3.5” disks).There are a couple of strategies you can use.You can create floppies with the original contents of the installation disks. An attempt to write any sector but the last, however, may corrupt the next sector.–Jun 7 '18 at 21:20. If 21 sectors are written as fast as possible, each sector will be guaranteed to finish before the next one starts, and all 21 can complete before the disk rotates far enough to reach the first sector again. A 1.44MB disk leaves a little extra space between sectors so that even if a sector runs a little 'long' it won't hit the start of the next sector. When writing a sector on a disk, there's a little bit of uncertainty in where the new data will be placed.
All the floppies I have are incapable of being formatted that way.Is there any other way to make windows 95 install disks that fit onto standard disks? Or is there some way I can split these into smaller files and then copy them all onto the hd and then join them up again and install it that way?I currently have windows 3.11 installed. I figured I would just download some windows 95 install disks and reformat it, but apparently those disks were a special type and format that held more than 1.4mb. It came with windows 95 on it but suffered from some terrible BSODs that I could not resolve. Ok so I have an old laptop with only a floppy drive.