Dear JordanIt 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 <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 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 <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 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.