Thank you! I'll give that tool a go and see what it comes up with. I have managed to get a 64mb Cisco CF working in the meantime, which was good enough to get win95 over onto the original HDD, meaning I now have a working CD ROM drive.

I formatted the disk with the FAT filesystem under winXP, then used the command 'wmic diskdrive' which reported: 15 cylinders 255 heads 63 sectors per track I was able to specify this on the FX3000 but it hangs for a long time then says 'drive failure' https://i.imgur.com/Tq9Jdcmm.jpg It detects and …

Hi all, I have a 486 machine (pics below :blush:) which I'm using type 47 to set up a 128mb CF card with, as the motherboard does not support auto-detect. I can successfully format the CF card using fdisk/format (while booted from floppy 6.22 boot disk) and read/write to it in DOS, but then when …

Hi there, I'm new to the forum so hope I've put this in the right place :) I recently picked up a new old toy. It's an Ipex built system with an FX-3000 motherboard (dual socket 386/486 board, but this one only has the socket for 486), 486 SX 25mhz, 8x 1mb of simms, and a trident VGA card. I've …