#boot-disk — Public Fediverse posts

Hab tatsächlich lange überlegt, ob ich das hier überhaupt hochladen sollte:

Eine noch unfertige, nur für PC-Hersteller bestimmte OEM-Boot-Diskettenvorlage für Windows 95 SR-2. Noch ohne CD-ROM-Treiber, aber mit Anleitungen und OEM-Hinweisen zur Installation in AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS und DRVCOPY.INF durch den jeweiligen OEM-Partner.

Kopiert man eine funktionierende SAMPLE.SYS Treiberdatei auf die Diskette, funktioniert sie einwandfrei. Viele Hersteller passten eine solche Diskette aber natürlich noch weiter an.

https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_oem-sr2_bootdisk_template

Viel Spaß beim Basteln! 😉

#Windows95 #Win95 #OEM #Microsoft #BootDisk #Diskette #FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #Treiber #CDROM #90er #90s #RetroComputing #Retro

Hier gibt's noch 'ne deutsche Originalfassung der Windows 98 Boot-Diskette aus dem Jahr 1998. Inkl. IMG, KryoFlux und 300dpi Scan der Diskette.

https://archive.org/details/win98_de_bootdisk

Viel Spaß damit! 🙂

#RetroComputing #Win98 #Windows #Microsoft #Diskette #BootDisk #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk #90er #90s

First power-on test of the latest acquisition is successful.

But I wonder, is it normal for the #disk #drive #led to stay on all the time if no disk is inserted?!

and is there anybody here in #continental #europe who could send me a #copy of the original CP/M #bootdisk for the CPC6128?

#AmstradCPC
#CPC6128

Essential steps for creating a USB boot drive for Linux #Linux #technology #bootdisk

https://www.both.org/?p=8322

I keep a bootable Linux disk with me most of the time because I never know when I am going to need to use one to rescue a crashed Microsoft Windows machine or turn someone on to the Linux desktop. Most distributions include my own daily driver Linux Mint Cinnamon have utilities that make boot disk creation much easier than it used to be. If you are on a Windows or MacOS platform you could use a great utility like Etcher.io which is one of my favorite boot disk creation tools. But let’s suppose that you are using a Linux computer with no connection to the internet and no other disk creation tools.

You could use dd which is tool that many folks have never used but it’s still a reliable utility and one that can make a bootable disk when all else fails. The dd command is a Linux utility that is sometimes referred to as ‘disk destroyer’ or ‘data duplicator and it is very useful and effective if you have no other way to create a bootable USB drive.

You will need a FAT32 formatted USB drive. Then you will need to determine the directory in which the iso file bearing the Linux distribution resides so that you can point to it in your command sequence. You will also need to use the lsblk command to determine which block device you are going to send your data to. Use of the dd command without good information can be devastating to the health of your system as it is easy to overwrite the wrong drive like your boot and/or data drive.

With your USB stick inserted into your computer open a terminal issue the following command:

$ lsblk 

You should receive an output that looks something like this.

$ /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1

Unmount the drive with the following command.

$ sudo umount /dev/sdX1 

 Use the dd command to write the ISO file to the USB drive:

$ sudo dd if=/path/to/linux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress

Replace /path/to/linux.iso with the path to your ISO file and /dev/sdX with the correct device identifier

After the dd command completes, you can verify that the data was written correctly by chechecking the output of lsblk or fdisk -1.

Once the process is complete, safely eject the USB drive:

$ sudo eject /dev/sdX

Now you are ready to start using your newly created Linux boot drive to rescue Windows systems or turn somene on to using Linux.

https://donwatkins.info/2024/10/30/diy-bootable-linux-disk-creation-without-internet-access-or-additional-tools/

#bootDisk #commandLine #dd #Linux

Well, this proved to be more difficult than I had first assumed, but I've finally found an original, untouched bootdisk for the German version of Windows 98 SE.

Here's the KryoFlux image: https://archive.org/details/win98se_de_bootdisk_kryoflux

Have fun!

#Win98SE #Microsoft #Bootdisk #KryoFlux

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Note to self: Next time when I'm looking for „that tool to write ISOs to a #bootable #usb medium“ don't waste my time with #unetbootin again just because it is the first name that always pops up in my head and just use https://rufus.ie right away 🙄

#rufus #floss #recovery #bootdisk #uefi