Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on Today, 20:14

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by Horun

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Still no luck, all the methods do not work proper on a WIn10 Home build (they might on Pro). Windows 7.0 and 8.1 do not seem to write SVI to the floppy (fired up the Win8.1 box and works fine), so maybe a Win8.1 PE with winimage portable app might be easiest way...reading about it and requires about …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on Today, 02:35

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by Horun

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OK found the issue: Windows 10 writes a "System Volume Information" folder with a index file if a removable drive, including a floppy disk, like it was a fixed disk. Does not do this to a hardwired real floppy. This folder/file (typically is a Index file) and when Winimage tries to write the sector …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on Yesterday, 15:56

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by Horun

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Wow ! weird that if you can format the floppy thru Winimage but cannot then write the image, there is something funny going on. I never use anything newer then XP to do an actual format from OS or CMD, on the Win7 and Win10 boxes I use Winimage and YES primarily use the Win7 box as it has all my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 15:43

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by Horun

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Bought this lovely PCG-N505X today (been after one for ages) Unfortuantely the hard drive died about 5 minutes after I started it up. I find that it is really common with Sony's of this age to have faulty hard drives - anyone else noticed? Now starts the hunt for the correct recovery CD (usually …

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Re: Adaptec SCSI, Floppy, IDE card not bootable

Posted on Yesterday, 00:54

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by Horun

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the manual is here: Unknown Multi I/O VLB Card (Hornet Technology?) VL-300 with SCSI if you didn't find it yet...

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-09-29, 13:16

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by Horun

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soory, fixed 🙁

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Re: What?? Both VLB and PCI slots on a 486 mobo?

Posted on 2023-09-29, 02:10

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by Horun

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Yeah 486 with PCI is garbage IMHO and just cobbled together to say "hey look what we have". 🤣

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Re: Adaptec SCSI, Floppy, IDE card not bootable

Posted on 2023-09-29, 01:32

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by Horun

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Yeah was thinking it could be like that but want to be sure, there is also no mention of the motherboard make/model but we know the sound card, video and ram 😁

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Re: Adaptec SCSI, Floppy, IDE card not bootable

Posted on 2023-09-29, 00:58

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by Horun

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Seems like to be an Adaptec 1520 / 1522 1) Does the SCSI controller include a floppy disk controller? 2) Do you have another floppy controller on or near your IDE controller? 3) If your SCSI controller have an unpopulated ROM socket, you need to boot either from floppy or IDE device. You just need …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-09-29, 00:53

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by Horun

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As for 'I need media!' One can still get 3.5" diskettes. https://www.amazon.com/Office-Diskettes-Formatted-OfficeMax-Atari-2600/dp/B000NKHIS4/ref=asc_df_B000NKHIS4/ It's the 5.25" diskette that's hard to obtain. One can get 3.5" disks, sure, but when were they manufactured? I had gotten the …

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Re: Adding a floppy disk controller to new hardware.

Posted on 2023-09-28, 03:11

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by Horun

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giantclam wrote on 2023-09-28, 02:38: They did exist, pretty rare nowadays though ... https://www.recycledgoods.com/daynafile-df-se … l-floppy-drive/ Yep and here is what happened in 1997: https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/relea … 97/NW092497.HTM End of that sort of stuff.....

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-09-28, 02:54

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by Horun

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"extracted" ??? How ?? You cannot extract (like with 7zip) the floppy image contents to a floppy disk and have it bootable. You need WinImage or other proper software to "write"the image to a floppy disk. Otherwise the boot sector will not be written making the it unbootable..... I had no clue. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-28, 02:47

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by Horun

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Ok today bought for a somewhat "retro" / vintage computer a low profile video card. Been looking for a cheap one to put in my mini InWin desktop case to replace the horrid Intel GMA X4500 onboard video from the Intel DG41RQ (soc775) https://ia802806.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/26/items/ …

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Re: Using An IDE Hard Drive From A DVD Recorder In A PC

Posted on 2023-09-28, 01:29

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by Horun

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Yep ! I would check them with CrystalDisk Info tool and see how many hours they have, got a few from old TIVO boxes that had less than 12,000 hours on them (one only 3200). Knowing the hours can help knowing one aspect of how much time they may have left... Most drives go 20-30,000 or more w/o issue …

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Re: Best method to backup my old floppies to a modern Windows PC?

Posted on 2023-09-28, 01:24

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by Horun

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VivienM wrote on 2023-09-27, 23:49: Then there was also a 2.88M formatted floppy that wasn't widely used. I have never seen boxes of those, so I don't know how they would have been labelled. Probably 4 meg unformatted capacity. Yep ! 4mb unformatted and have an ED logo where the HD logo on 2mb 3.5" …

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Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.

Posted on 2023-09-28, 01:19

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by Horun

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"extracted" ??? How ?? You cannot extract (like with 7zip) the floppy image contents to a floppy disk and have it bootable. You need WinImage or other proper software to "write"the image to a floppy disk. Otherwise the boot sector will not be written making the it unbootable.....

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Re: Adding a floppy disk controller to new hardware.

Posted on 2023-09-27, 02:19

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by Horun

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There is no way to add an internal floppy controller to a newer PCIe motherboard. The last Intel mainstream boards that truly supported a floppy controller (w/o bridge chip) were soc775 based iirc. There is no such thing a PCI floppy controller AFAIK.... Once upon a time ... https://www.vesalia.de …

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Re: Adding a floppy disk controller to new hardware.

Posted on 2023-09-27, 01:56

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by Horun

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There is no way to add an internal floppy controller to a newer PCIe motherboard. The last Intel mainstream boards that truly supported a floppy controller (w/o bridge chip) were soc775 based iirc. There is no such thing a PCI floppy controller AFAIK....

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Re: Format Iomega Zip disk for Macintosh Classic II

Posted on 2023-09-26, 22:16

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by Horun

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Transmac is a PC app I have used to read/write/format Mac drives and cdroms . The older versions like 7.5 will run under Win95 and the very old v3.1 16 bit will run under Win3.x and do support ZIP drives but it has a learning curve.....have used it working with Mac drives and disks before. It will …

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Re: Looking for drivers for Dresselhaus SmartPrint printer sharing hardware.

Posted on 2023-09-26, 02:19

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by Horun

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Maybe you can have someone read the 5.25" floppies and get that DOS Filer app (unless it is also in the Win3x filer also). from their website: "Free file transfer software. The SmartPrint Starter Kit includes software for transferring files of any size from one computer to another. File transfer …

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