You probably wouldn't be able to find any drivers for any of the components for it to work. Newer operating systems have default drivers that usually get components to work, like the chipset, CPU, expansion slots, USB slots, graphics cards etc. you would also run into HDD space allocation issues, windows 95 would not be able to use such large HDD's, it would be limited to something like 60GB or less and have issues with the amounts of RAM in modern computers. So it probably wouldn't work.
If you want a small operating system that will work, google 'DSL' (damn small linux) and you can burn it to a disc and run the operating system off the disk, there are a few other Live linux distro's.
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