For those of you that have been deep into the inner workings of the final oem release of Windows 95, I am curious what files out of the \WIN95 install directory on the disc are required for a full installation, except for the internet, other language and content-related bloat? When I install from …

Unless it's just me, it seems that all of the old Adaptec drivers have finally been removed from the Microsemi support site. Can someone else try the link below and verify also? The pages are still there, but can't get to any of the files. If that is the case, not to worry, I mirrored that whole …

Hey guys, just thought I would memorialize this here in case others in the future have trouble locating clean copies of these old Microsoft Windows 3.x updates and TCP/IP packages. Although the Microsoft FTP (SoftLib section) is gone except for some remaining mirrors, in my archival work I have …

The interface on those old Central Point apps wasn't bad. I have the Tools and Backup for DOS, but they aren't really good for capturing a disk or partition image, and doing a restore. LOL when I ran my first test with Ghost on the 486 images I was building, I was like dang.....I wish we could've …

If it's a standard-ish IDE laptop drive (even behind the brackets/adapters), those drives are usually less than 10 bucks. From what I recall, the StinkPads used pretty standard components. Probably could even swap-in a IDE DVD drive for an upgrade!

Anytime you can install from media other than optical or floppy, it's usually faster. You should be able to drop that \WIN98 directory from the CD onto the hard drive (preferably a 2nd drive on another IDE channel) , run setup and not have any issues. As for the write-to-drive errors, I'd step back …

Hey y'all, So as it relates to my vintage software & hardware museum/collection, I had been using two systems for drive imaging: Ghost (DOS) for old-school systems (pre-Pentium 4), and Clonezilla (partclone/partimage etc) for newer systems. Ghost version 5.x and newer fit the bill perfectly, but 286 …

I suggest testing with a smaller IDE hard drive from that time period. Remove all the variables and newer hardware. Although you may have a custom bios, the driver is from the 90s, talking to a chipset that was designed in the 90s, that expects to talk to a drive from the 90s. Unpredictable things …