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How to boot from a USB floppy drive on a UEFI BIOS
I have a RAAYOO USB floppy drive reader and some generic 1.44 MB floppy disks. I am trying to boot FREEDOS Floppy Edition using this reader on a computer with a UEFI BIOS. It shows up under legacy ...
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Making a DOS 6.22 Network Boot Floppy from a Hard Drive
I have a computer (an oooold ALR, 486DX-66) that has a hard drive that boots to DOS 6.22.
This ALR computer boots to DOS, loads network drivers (it has an old Dlink DE-220 network card). It then maps ...
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can i connect a Floppy Drive to USB Adapter / copy data, can i emulate a floppy drive and rip?
can i connect a 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Connector 34 PIN 34P to USB Adapter to somethign and copy the data, *(rather than connecting a floppy drive and copying to floopy and then transferign it ...
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How to boot and read a Windows 9X boot CD from a 2TB SCSI/NVMe SSD?
First I want to apologize that I thought it was SCSI, that's what the Device manager details told me. I tried to boot both a Windows 98 SE and a (patched) Windows ME Boot Disk equipped SSD, and it ...
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How to get Win 9X OEMSetup working from same C:\ USB stick as the Boot Disk
Edit: The big problem with either 95 or ME probably is that the boot cd(stick) IS the primary partition and there's no way to spoof it as a floppy or CD. such a pain that the dos files are in the way ...
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What files are needed for a bootable DOS floppy disk?
I just made a bootable DOS floppy disk in Windows Vista, but the files are taking too much space. I need more space to store a flash utility program and a ROM file. What files can I safely remove and ...
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Install C++ compiler on old MS-DOS computer with floppies
I have an old MS-DOS computer that I am experimenting with. The computer has an AMD 80386 processor, 1664 KB of RAM, a 50 MB hard drive, and two floppy disk drives: one 3 1/2 inches, the other 5 1/4 ...
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Installing Ye Olde DOOM on DOS with Ye Olde Floppy Discs
I'm trying to install DOOM (the shareware version) on my old Compaq running Windows 3.11. I've got the files
deice.exe
dooms_19.1
dooms_19.2
dooms_19.dat
install.bat
all downloaded and I have a USB ...
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How do I connect a 5 1/4" floppy drive to a modern PC?
This question was originally posted on Gaming Stack Exchange.
I have a small collection of 5 1/4" floppy disks (early Sierra games) that I am trying to read. How can I connect a drive that accepts ...
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What is the exact meaning of an “IBM formatted” floppy disk?
I have often come across floppy disks in the past that were marketed as “IBM Formatted Floppy.”
What exactly is the meaning of “IBM formatted” and what is the significance of it?
And if I format ...
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A non-diskette MS-DOS boot disk
I want to format a device to be an MS-DOS boot disk but I dont have a floppy disk drive. Unless you show me one on ebay thats 5 dollars or less I cant buy it. I wanted to know If I could format ...
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Floppy drive doesn’t work in Windows, but does outside of Windows
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My (internal) floppy drive does not work in Windows (neither XP nor 7). That is, when trying to access the A: drive, nothing occurs, no light, no motor, nothing.
It does however work in DOS, ...
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How to image a floppy on Win98/Dos for Virtualbox?
I need to make an image of a floppy disk containing DOS drivers to use in VirtualBox. Is there to do it in the Windows 98 command line environment?
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Restoring ancient zip file spanning floppy disks: pkzipfix equivalents?
I'm about to attempt something odd, and before I wasted time going down the wrong paths, I thought I'd see if anyone here has done this before. I have a zip file created in DOS (in 1997?) with pkzip ...
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