Re: Windows setup won’t run

Posted on 2018-03-03, 20:49

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by britain4

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That's a good call... not strictly needed I don't think but one of those things that's nice to have. I've built myself an ISO based on "The Windows 9x Project" that can install 95, 98, 98SE or Me, with 98lite on the disc and the required Win95 files ready unpacked and also Himem on there too.

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Re: Installing Windows 9x in 2018

Posted on 2018-03-03, 09:40

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Cheers for that. I've actually found a system now which is slightly inconvenient but I'm happy enough with it. I do pretty much what you said, I transfer the hard drive over to a system that has a CD drive, boot from a Win98SE boot CD, copy the system files over, then I copy the disk contents from …

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Re: Laptop keyboard typing wrong keys...

Posted on 2018-03-02, 13:12

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Little update, I don’t know where the spare one of these I had has gone, I’ve looked everywhere for it... i do have a spare motherboard I didn’t know I had and a spare video card so I wonder if I stripped it for spares... Anyway incredibly I’ve found a few parts sellers on eBay with the keyboards in …

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Re: Windows setup won’t run

Posted on 2018-03-01, 18:20

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oeuvre wrote: It's from this http://windows95tips.com/ That's going in my bookmarks! 😁

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Re: Anyone put an SSD in a Libretto U100? (1.8" PATA SSD)

Posted on 2018-03-01, 18:14

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Thanks for that. I didn't know you could get ZIF to CF adapters, I think that might be just what I need. However I have also seen adapters for CF card-Toshiba 50 pin interface which confused me a little as I thought the 50 pin interface was the same as compact flash?? I guess it could just be for …

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Re: Windows setup won’t run

Posted on 2018-03-01, 14:44

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oeuvre wrote: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/271/219/9ac.png […] Show full quote I love this, permission to steal it? 😁 It was the laptop's CD drive playing up in the end so I guess I'll be on the lookout for a new one now.

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Re: What you thought you will never have?

Posted on 2018-03-01, 14:42

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Never thought I'd own a Libretto U100 due to crazy "collectors" prices but I found one on ebay recently for a bit of a bargain, might seem unremarkable to some but I've been fascinated with them ever since they came out, and before that the 20ct-110ct that came before it.

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Anyone put an SSD in a Libretto U100? (1.8" PATA SSD)

Posted on 2018-03-01, 14:39

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I've got a Libretto U100 which is lovely (if pushing the boundaries of "retro" a tad - but it still uses an IDE drive so I thought you guys would know) but unfortunately painfully slow to do absolutely anything even with a clean copy of Windows on it. It is currently limping along with the stock …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-01, 13:39

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bjwil1991 wrote: Interesting. Can you make the image smaller by adding the letter h before the .jpg file? Wow OK sorry about that, they were big images! I can't figure out what you mean about adding the h though?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-01, 12:09

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Also picked this up which apart from crashing quite scarily when I first set it up works nicely and absolutely flies with Win98 - I’ve fitted a brand new 60gb hard drive, overclocked it to 266mhz and upgraded it to 64mb RAM... well, sort of, it was sold as 32mb and had 32mb when I first got it but I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-01, 10:19

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Just won this old Daewoo laptop on eBay: Not in very good shape apparently with a dying hard drive and the hinges are broken BUT I only paid £10 for it and I thought it was interesting enough to be worth saving! It’s a 486, very small and apparently boots to Windows 98 but other than that I know …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-03-01, 08:01

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Cool thanks guys I’ll five these things a shot, anything is worth trying at this stage. I don’t remember seeing anything about large drives in the BIOS but I might have missed it. I could try zeroing out the drives and trying again but it’s strange that it happens on both the ex-Linux drive and …

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Re: Parallel Port Compact Flash card reader for very old PCs

Posted on 2018-03-01, 00:23

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This is very nifty, I’ll have to keep an eye out for one of these myself. Thanks for the write up. I’ve been looking at simple PCI slot mounted CF to IDE adapters but this looks like the more versatile and convenient option.

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Re: Laptop crashes in some situations but not in Windows

Posted on 2018-02-28, 20:39

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Further to my previous post I have tried the laptop with hardware acceleration set to basic and Theme Hospital works fine but I feel like this is just masking the issue if it’s a problem with the graphics chip - or if the game just doesn’t like this graphics chip for whatever reason - I thought more …

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Re: Laptop crashes in some situations but not in Windows

Posted on 2018-02-28, 19:38

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I have a Toshiba with a Pentium 133 that plays the exact same copy of Theme Hospital just fine with no stuttering, this one with a Pentium 233 stutters and crashes. I’m not so worried about the fact that it doesn’t run well but the crashing with artifacts is concerning me. I’ve had a look inside and …

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Laptop crashes in some situations but not in Windows

Posted on 2018-02-28, 15:23

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by britain4

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I have a laptop (Toshiba Libretto 110ct) that’s freezing up when running certain programs. It’s running Windows 98 - has been running that flawlessly for 2 solid days while I’ve been messing with it and installing drivers etc. Decided to load up Theme Hospital on it - seemed quite laggy and almost …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-02-28, 14:47

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Yup I did fdisk /MBR, no dice. I’ll have to try wiping the drives on another machine and starting again with it at some point. For now I don’t have the time to be messing about with it really :( Actually... the formatted and bootable HDD that now boots fine with no GRUB related errors in my Celeron …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-02-27, 15:13

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I don't know where to go next then with it, seems like it might be relying on some boot discs I don't have. I tried a HP restore floppy disk image I found but obviously had to try it out in another laptop and it comes up as invalid boot drive. Seemed to work ok with the original Toshiba copy of W95 …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-02-27, 14:10

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Sadly the machine has lost its original floppy drive and the CD drive is not bootable, so I’m pretty stuck. I went out on a limb and formatted the W95 drive which did boot in the HP (which came from a Toshiba and coincidentally is the same make and model but a smaller capacity) and copied system …

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Re: Hard drive with previous Linux install won’t boot DOS

Posted on 2018-02-27, 13:36

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The drive I’m trying to boot DOS from is actually the original 2gb drive that came in the P1 laptop, which is a HP Omnibook, P133. In its current configuration the HDD boots to a C prompt in two other laptops but an I/O error in the HP. As I stated - I have another HDD with a Windows 95 install on …

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