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Resurrecting a Legacy X86 PC..
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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1014018" data-attributes="member: 325666"><p>So ..having been gifted a full set of floppies for Windoze 3.00 (cheers Neil)</p><p>..I had to travel a bit further down the rabbit hole ..</p><p>Found an old 6gb IDE to play with ..but stupidly forgot that 3.00 can only use FAT ...</p><p>is that FAT16 ..?</p><p>I doubt it's even that.</p><p>Point being the drive/partition size cannot exceed 2gb ...and requires DOS to format and install.</p><p>Managed to find MSDOS 6.2 ..and now have a full 4 disk floppy set (pause for jokes).</p><p>And made 3 partitions on the Hard Drive ..and am currently fomatting using the MSDOS diskettes..</p><p>I've forgotten soooo much over the years..</p><p>lol</p><p>But slowly the grey matter is accommodating the Legacy stuff..</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1014018, member: 325666"] So ..having been gifted a full set of floppies for Windoze 3.00 (cheers Neil) ..I had to travel a bit further down the rabbit hole .. Found an old 6gb IDE to play with ..but stupidly forgot that 3.00 can only use FAT ... is that FAT16 ..? I doubt it's even that. Point being the drive/partition size cannot exceed 2gb ...and requires DOS to format and install. Managed to find MSDOS 6.2 ..and now have a full 4 disk floppy set (pause for jokes). And made 3 partitions on the Hard Drive ..and am currently fomatting using the MSDOS diskettes.. I've forgotten soooo much over the years.. lol But slowly the grey matter is accommodating the Legacy stuff.. :D [/QUOTE]
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