First post, by infiniteclouds
Hey,
So just wiped/formatted a Tandy 1000SX that I bought that had MS-DOS 5.xx on it so that I can install the original Tandy MS-DOS 3.2/3.3.
(http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html)
This 1000SX has a 360KB 5.25" drive and a 720KB 3.5" drive.
I have a Slot 1 machine that has 98SE installed that has a 3.5"1.44MB floppy drive and I have 3.5" Double Density diskettes. At first I tried dumping the contents of the 360KB .DSK image, copying it onto the formatted 760KB disk and booting up from it on the XT - Non-System disk or disk error. I tried doing the same with the "720k disk image" (.imz instead of .dsk) of version 3.3 and while I get no error the system just hangs after POST and the floppy disk drive LED remains solid.
I figure I must use a program to properly copy the direct .imz so I downloaded WinImage 7.0, copied it over to Win98 and loaded up the .imz file in there. When I tried to write it to disk (to the DD floppy)... blue screen. I then tried to first format it using "Current Image File" as the format and was met with Track X, Head X, disk errors. I skipped through each of these enduring a very slow, very long (maybe hour?) process of the program formatting the disk, continuously having to press skip every few minutes. I was rewarded for my patience with it hanging at 96%. God, I had almost wholly forgotten the DELIGHT of older computers trolling you as hard as they possibly can.
Short of buying a 360KB or even 720KB disk drive to install in the Slot 1 machine (if that would even work) how can I proceed to make some MS-DOS disks to reinstall the OS on my Tandy 1000?