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Davros

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    Yes on the extra drive.

    I did think about that, to load a O/S to a new drive and see if that works without doing anything to the old drive.

    That would be the safest way. You'll find out about any problems you may run into and always be able to put the old drive back in if you can't get it to work.

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    The way that I've gotten around the drive letter problem, is by forcing a letter with mscdex.

    Exactly what I did too.
    I found the image I made a while back. It's here.

    When making a bootable cd, use 2.88 emulation with this image, b/c that is the type of floppy it is. With a normal floppy you use 1.44 emulation. Leave sectors to 1.

  3. Use WinImage to make an .img of your floppy. You can then tweak the image, such as change it to 2.88 and put more stuff in it. Then use Nero to burn a bootable CD, selecting the .img for the boot image.

     

    If you want to put stuff on the rest of the CD, make sure you load CD drivers in your floppy boot image.

     

    If you really want something cool, put this JO.SYS in the root of the img to give you a "press spacebar to boot from cd" menu.


  4. I used to love XP, but I'm getting sick of it. I'm getting tired of having to disable shit for 3 hours after an install. (don't tell me about ghosting, sysprep, etc. I use that most of the time, but can't always.)

     

    Windows 2000 doesn't let me down. It's been out for a long time now, and I have been able to find a driver for anything I've needed for it. I don't have to block ports like I do for XP, it doesn't phone home every time you want to search for something LOCALLY! And let's face it, the GUI is gay as hell. And I don't have to call MS every time someones machine dies and I have to reinstall with new hardware.


  5. I have a Yamaha 16x that I hate! It's noisy, and has a really long spin up time, and chokes my cpu to death when writing leadin/leadout.

     

    I got a Plextor 40x that I love! Very fast, very quiet, and no problems doing other things while burning. Make sure you're HDD isn't too old so you can burn at 40x.

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