Seems I have a lot of options to look into, might be best to start with a liveCD of freedos and then try a Linux distro if that doesn't work out. Since there is potential to wipe the floppies if I do anything wrong, I just want to double-check since now I am doubting everything. The write-protect …

Would a live Windows environment even be usable on a Pentium 4 system? Wouldn't that take up a lot of system resources intended for more modern systems even if it's based on something like XP?

Wondering if anyone had any good advice on this. I have a Pentium 4 laptop that other than not having a HDD currently installed works perfectly, it has both a DVD-ROM and Floppy drive in it. I wanted to use it to boot a live OS without installing it to dump backup images of some of my floppies, but …

Mac Plus used a variable speed 800k floppy drive, and to my understanding it is impossible to read those disks on anything else than a mac with built-in floppy drive. Huh, now I am confused. I have vague memories of many years ago using a Mac emulator on my Windows 95 or 98 PC to read those disks. …

Just to be clear, I am not talking about something extremely low-level like a KryoFlux or Greaseweazle that would preserve the physical aspects of the disk, I just need the data off of them. I purchased an old Dell FDDM-101 to use as a USB floppy drive to read my old 1.4MM and 720KB disks and want …

Back a year or so ago same question came up and had a lot of good answers: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=80259 Reading/writing a 720k is easier than formatting one on a good USB floppy and there are other factors involved such as OS support I use a Win7 machine for reading old 720k …

I don't have any 720-only systems but I do have many old 720 floppies as well as 1.44.

I have been trying to figure out what to do in terms of being able to read/write my old floppy disks on newer systems as well as use said drive to image and create boot disks for my older systems. I originally thought that I could just buy one of those hundreds of cheap USB Floppy drives on Amazon …

I am going to be setting up an old Pentium 4 laptop to dualboot Windows 98 and XP. Since it has a discrete GPU, a floppy and dvd-drive that don't need to be removed to also have the battery attached it seemed perfect for retro PC games. I highly doubt I will connect the system online, but in any …

I see. In that case probably would be best to just get a 128GB drive and split it into a 64GB FAT32 and NTFS partition for each. Seems there are still a few 128GB M.2 drives being sold, I was getting worried they would all be gone now. Though the m.2 to IDE adapters seem to all be just cheap stuff …

Yeah, that works for me, will just need to get some sort of M.2 SATA/NVME to USB adapter. I needed one of those anyway. So as long as I pre-partition the drive Windows 98 shouldn't have issues with the drive being larger than 137GB if I just leave it on a 128Gb partition? Also, wait, both partitions …

So I will have to externally partition it first? From what I understand, I can't install XP first if I want to dualboot 98 and XP, I would have to install 98 first.

From my understanding, Windows 98SE can't support a drive larger than 128/137GB. I have an old Pentium 4 laptop I want to setup for old games, and I plan to dualboot 98 and XP on it. If I put a 256GB drive in it, and create a 128GB FAt32 partition for Windows98 and a 128GB NTFS partition for XP, …

HP will have documentation for this.... I tried, I couldn't find it in any of the documentation I was able to dig up. The laptop should support pretty much whatever, but pretty sure Windows 98 is going to be limited to 128GB unless you use the R.Loew patch for larger drives. That's kind of the …

I was given an old Pentium 4 Laptop, it's listed as a "HP Omnibook xe4400s" and I saw the model number "CRVSA-02T1-90". It's a pretty bulky thing, but I noticed that the bulk means that it can house a floppy drive, dvd-burner, and battery all at the same time without having to swap any of them. And …

I have been trying to use either PCem or 86Box to re-create some old mid-90s era Packard Bell systems that ran on Hillary boards which I used to own, but have been running into roadblocks in both. For PCem: It does seem to be compatible with PB570 boards, which were Hillary, and I was able to …