Windows 3.1 on USB

Richard Beer · 3 Sep 2007 at 02:59

Right I may sound like a fool but what I wanted to do as an experiment and for the novelty of it is,
Somehow get windows 3.1 to boot up on my pc from usb stick, but I was woundering if there was anyway i could get windows 3.1 compatable with dvds or USB, bearing in mine I am a noob to programming drivers and open source etc so i know literally nothing when it comes to stuff like that. Any help anyone could offer would be greatley apprecieted, thanks.

modo77 · 3 Sep 2007 at 03:55

Pretty sure you can't get usb in 3.1, i'd guess probably the same for dvd too.

Oh and wow windows 3.1, that brings back some horrible memories

marc2003 · 3 Sep 2007 at 04:37

if you want to mess about with windows 3.1, you're best off installing vmware server or virtualbox on a normal pc and then running 3.1 as a guest os. much easier.

slinxy · 3 Sep 2007 at 07:17

There are usb drivers for dos 6.2 I had them running in a vm - like wise for the dvd drive. get the items working in 6.2 first then start playing with win 3.1/3.11

Theguy · 3 Sep 2007 at 12:54

remember, win 3.1 gets installed after dos!
god, win 3.1 bet it will be hell just trying to get it working on moden day comps, i bet the getting it on the usb is the easy part :/ - good luck!

ns400r · 3 Sep 2007 at 14:26

Should just be a case of making your USB stick bootable and then installing Windows 3.1 to it. No problem there but actually making 3.1 work with modern hardware might be a problem. You don't need USB drivers in the 3.1 installation to make it, in theory, boot from the USB stick. That should be covered by the motherboard BIOS.

fumbles · 3 Sep 2007 at 15:03

IIRC 3.1 was a GUI front end to MSDOS... DOS is going to be the problem, not Windows. IIRC you can just run Windows from within XP, as you would any old software.