Reply 20 of 30, by creepingnet
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You could set them up like I did the 486 that is sitting next to me right now.
I use mostly old 5400 RPM ATA-100/133 hard disks on my old systems with whatever Dynamic Drive Overlays that will work with them. I don't know what CPU your old DOS boxes are running but that's what I do with 386 and 486 machines when I want to store a lot.
For my 486 I have a LianLi RH17 5.25" Mobile Rack - this thing...
In the caddies for it I have the following
15GB HDD - MS-DOS 6.22/Windows for Workgroups 3.11 w/Maxblast DDO
40GB HDD - Windows 95 OSR2 w/Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools DDO
80GB HDD - FreeDOS 2.1 w/Seagate DDO (which is the same as the WD one FWIW))
Now getting the data on there, I have a few ways.....
1.) USB 2.0 Drive adapter on modern PC - Basically I plug it into my Win7 laptop ever since Win10 stopped supporting FAT32 on HDD and copy the data over from my file shares. I even do this with installers.
2.) NETWORK PUSH - Windows 10 PC with file shares on it pushes data to my Windows For Workgrouped or Win95 machine over the LAN, or using mTCP on DOS with the old DOS machine setup as an FTP Server.
One thing I've done on my Win95 setup is I use a 40GB HDD with VirtualCD on it so I can run things like Diablo off a virtual Cd-ROM Drive, and I'm doing this on a 486 DX4-100 with little-no issue.
1.) USB 2.0 to IDE adapter - I use this for direct copy
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