I'm gonna google a little about these errors. And they are functioning otherwise for writing ordinary data. Or maybe could it come from my floppies ? Two of the five I tested are labelled as 'double side high density, 2.0 Mb'. I'm afraid the USB really won't do the trick. The next floppy I tried showed me 'The current image format is not supported by the disk drive'.Īfter few tries, it appears that the same floppy can display the two different errors, randomly. I tried to only format it on 1.68 Mb before writing, but the same occured. Well, I just tried to format and write the 1.68 Mb image while typing this post : it shows me a Windows error at the very beginning, it writes of an 'Error N.50 Access Denied'. It's an 'ultrabay' like module that also has a mini-USB plug on it's side.ĭo you think I should set WinImage on a computer that is equiped with a true internal floppy drive? Hm, I'm actually using a Dell internal floppy drive. However, if it reveals to be a good tool to format in another sizes, let's try this! I already crossed the path of WinImage for writing usual 1.44 Mb images, but as it was shareware, I forget it quickly. I tried to search the forums before posting, but if there's something yet, I was unable to figure it out. But it would still be good to know if there is still a proper way to reformat a floppy on something bigger than 1.44 Mb.īy the way : I'm sorry if a similar question has already been asked before. I often copy the Windows 9x files directly to the old computer hard drive to install it.

Well, it's not a very important issue, actually. Indeed, I tried to google and regoogle that, again and again, but the few tips I managed to find out there revealed unusable (missing software, missing many many many leads to use the software properly.). I'm barely old enough for having known the period when 3.5' were still of use. 1.68 Mb floppies, something that I discovered very recently. Windows 95, for example, is mostly stored on. However, for floppy versions (3.5', I haven't tried the bigger things yet), I'm facing an issue for OS images. My main, actual computer is slowly transforming in some kind of second storage for all this great vintage things you got there.

Then, I started to sift through Google in order to find everything that these old machines could use : drivers, software, OS. I've been lurking around the WinWorld website for few months now, as I'm gathering a little collection of ancient IT things (laptops from the 90's, mostly), and a great part of the fun is to make them nearby as functioning as they were!

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