I used the generic Super VGA driver and patched the driver to make it work under Windows 3.1.Ĥ. I used a utility Win3XSTART to make Windows 3.x run under MS-DOS 7.1 and on the FAT32 formatted USB flash drive.ģ. I got Windows 3.1 installed using 6 floppy diskette images and applied updates to it.Ģ. Here's what I've done so far when I set up the boot device under VMware:ġ. Windows 3.1 was set up through VMware Player with the drive locked so that VMware Player can gain direct access to the USB flash drive. To correct this, I had to press CTRL-ALT-DELETE to reboot. However, when I attempted to run Windows 3.1 while in pure DOS residing on the USB flash drive, the 16-bit OS stops responding (hangs) on the Windows 3.11 splash screen when run with the WIN /3 command to run Windows in 386 Enhanced Mode. I recently experimented my attempts to boot MS-DOS 7.1 off of a Ativa Flip 4 GB flash drive and in all, things were successful.
