First post, by DecepticonZero
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Hi all,
New here and new to setting up DOS. My first machine was a Windows 95 machine and I never really played many games on it, and I want to try and play alot of the great DOS titles I missed.
I purchased a Toshiba 430CDT a few weeks back and began reading up on the machine prior to its arrival. I saw a few threads here and on other sites about replacing the IDE drive with a CF card. So while I was assembling parts for the machine, I also purchased this and this.
The machine arrived and everything works fine. The machine was listed as not having an OS, which it doesn't but it does spin up and is recognized when plugged into a windows 10 machine via a USB dock. I haven't gotten any media yet to install an OS, so I decided to attempt to install DOS on the CF via a virtual box. I followed a guide and I can get DOS installed and booting fine on the CF. When I move it to the machine however, the machine hangs after the memory check for several minutes and eventually asks for a boot disc.
I also noticed when I enter the bios with the stock drive, under the hard drive heading I can switch it between Standard and enhanced IDE. When I install the CF adapter, it wont let me change it from enhanced IDE and after navigating through the bios a bit, the drive will eventually disappear.
Lastly, the IDE adapter has a jumper for master/slave or slave/master, but the stock drive doesn't use and jumpers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the novel first post!