How to Install Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME to an SD Card the easy way
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2023
- There's no need to mess with floppy drives, cds, or virtual machines to get your Win9x (or DOS 7.1) machine up and running. With this cool trick, you can get your machine up and running in no time.
You can find my $4 XT-IDE project at www.pcbway.com/project/sharep...
Things I used.
My favorite IDE to SD Adapter - amzn.to/3MjxS97
Laptop version - amzn.to/45ThB1o
Quality 32GB SD Cards - amzn.to/3SgTo20
Quality 128GB SD Card - amzn.to/40ehYCK
My favorite SD Reader - amzn.to/3tPnijU
Software
SD Image - archive.org/details/dos-71-wi...
SD Writer - etcher.balena.io/
MiniTool Partition Wizard - www.partitionwizard.com/
3d Printables
My 5.25 drive bay - chonky - www.thingiverse.com/thing:628...
Reinforced slot bracket - www.thingiverse.com/thing:476...
Relevant Videos -
$4 XT-IDE - • The $4 XT-IDE Board
DOS 6.22 SD - • How to Install DOS 6.2... - Věda a technologie
Worked like a charm on my compact flash to IDE adapter, thanks so much!
Outstanding video thanks.
You're very welcome!
HOLY SHIT MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
I’ve been struggling for days trying to install 98 burning multiple discs and trying a official one but nothing worked before I tried this
Awesome! Glad it was helpful
excellent information
Interesting there my friend good work
Thank you!
I would like to try this out on an old late 90's PC that I have, however I don't have a 3D printer to print the 5.25" drive bay, or the reinforced slot bracket.
Do you know where I could buy those parts at?
I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing if you put it on Facebook that you needed something 3D printed, most people would be happy to do it.
I may have missed something, the Flash boots to a C prompt and those operating systems need a C drive to install. Hence, the installation went straight to the Memory Card. Any thoughts on this?
That's the point. You use the SD card as your primary hard drive. Although you can use the SD card to copy those install files to a traditional hard drive if you want
Very good video, very well explained. 👍Thank you also for the links to Thingiverse, because I also own 3D printers. I'm just afraid that SD cards aren't particularly suitable for operating systems, because data is constantly being written to them and cached. Do you have long-term experience with it?
I've never had one die. I usually only buy the quality SanDisk ones and it's not like I run my retro computers all day everyday so they are perfectly suitable for that. I would not run it on my own desktop.
Since they are smaller, they are also relatively easy they just back up
And thank you for the kind words
@@AnotherMaker Thank you for the quick answer, I'll try that out too.
Gosh I wished this worked, looks amazing. I get the same problem as Level-ts, the INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER error. I'm installing it on a Compaq LTE 5300, I partitioned the sd card to 2.0gb and still nothing. I've tried the 6.22 flas as well and I get hung up on starting ms dos...still messing around with it but if you have any ideas it would be much appreciated
I'm guessing it's a bios issue. There are 2 issues that need to be solved. 1. Getting the proper files in the proper format (including hidden and partition tables) onto the sd card. Getting the bios to properly recognize the drive. Sometimes the computer takes care of step 2. Yours is a laptop, so I'm not 100% sure how, but the issue is that one way or another, you either need xt-ide bios or a card that is compatible with your bios.
For the LTE 5000 series, you probably won't want to exceed a 4GB card. Some people have had luck with 8GB but it has been mixed. At least that is the case for CF cards, never tried an SD card in one.
My Emachine tower hangs at "Searching for Boot record from IDE-0..OK"
Hmm. Can you boot to a floppy?
Unfortunately it makes a non-DOS partition, according to FDISK on my DOS 6.22 boot disk.
Correct. Yea, this method is going to create a FAT32 partition, and DOS 6.22 will see that as "non DOS"
tried this today and didnt work. i just get a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" error
That's really odd. I've used it almost every day lately. Try writing to the drive and not resizing it. If I had to take a guess I would say whatever software is resizing it is probably breaking it. So if it boots without resizing then you at least narrow the problem down
The other thing is that just because you can write the card doesn't mean the BIOS can support a card that size. What kind of machine did you try to boot it on?
...and your hardware is ???
can i use a cd for do it?