Dear Jordan
It is a 3.5 inch DOS floppy boot disc (image) so it is no size atall.
That is what you need for this trick. You have to be able to boot into
DOS from the floppy disc and then use the dos utility. I have always
used a Win98 floppy boot disk but it will probably work with earlier
versions of DOS if you have one that you can boot with. If you would
like a copy of the one I have, I can send it to you privately.
Paul
On 08/02/2020 17:17, J R FOX wrote:
Hi Paul,
Perhaps you could "ISO" image it (and preferably include an MD5 or CRC32
checksum for that), compress that into
an archive with Zip, 7Zip, or Rar if the ISO happens to be
fairly sizable, and send that to me ? A good, free program
for making ISO images is the disc-burning program ImgBurn.
If you don't have this, I could send you the final version of it.
The basics of it are pretty simple. I've made images like
this of other discs / boot discs for others on several occasions.
Most email accounts have size limitations in the low megabyte
range for attachments. For files or archives up to 2 GB. in size,
I've been using the WeTransfer service (their free one), which I
believe Ed Mendelsohn had directed me to.
No need to mess with floppies . . . unless this item only
exists as a floppy ?
Alternately, I can look around online for this, if the above
turns out to be too much trouble.
Jordan
On Saturday, February 8, 2020, 2:24:46 AM PST, Paul Breeze
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Dear Jordan
I do not have any experience with RAID but I do know that it is usually
set up in the bios so you should be ok there. I can send you a Windows
98 boot disc image (3.5 inch) if you need one. I have never tried to
write one back to a real floppy disc but I suppose it must be possible.
On 08/02/2020 01:37, J R FOX wrote:
Paul,
There is an additional wrinkle that I forgot to mention:
The old XP computer was set up (not by me) for mirrored
RAID, to a 2nd. HDD for backup. However, I believe that
this setup is accomplished somewhere in BIOS settings,
and may not compromise anything on the boot drive
proper. (?) At least, that is what I'm hoping, as it would
be more easily bypassed.
Jordan
On Friday, February 7, 2020, 5:47:40 AM PST, Paul Breeze
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PS. There is an old trick, that your probably already know, for when
Windows XP will not boot after copying to a new drive or restoring. Boot
from a Windows 98 boot disk and then command FDISK /MBR. This
overwrites the master boot record, forcing XP to recreate it. In case
you should be interested I also have a copy of AVIRA's NTFSDOS which
allows you access to a hard drive formatted with NTFS from DOS.