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Windows 95 (by default) wasn't CD bootable, you HAD to use a boot disk before you could use a CD for the rest. I think right after 95 came out the standard came out for CD booting. But before that OEM would make bootable CDs for their recovery media for 95.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

I think at least some editions of Windows 98 couldn't boot from the CD-ROM either but had a boot floppy with the drivers. I hit this problem recently when trying to set up a Windows 98 machine.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I still have those, never ever successfully used them.

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