Cloning a windows 95 disk! :)

shura · May 16, 2022

A friend gave me the ugliest Toshiba Satellite T2135CS laptop from 1996. The bastard has 16MB RAM and no sound adapter, but makes up for it in character and girth. This thing comes with a girth certificate, I tells ya.

On a more serious note, the original Toshiba 500MB HDD is about to die, so I decided to use a CF-PATA adapter + 4GB Transcend CF card and clone the system, because a clean install without drivers seems like a silly idea. With the old drive connected through PATA-USB adapter and the CF card in my trusty CF card reader, I used AOMEI Backupper (free version) to clone the drive. On the machine I used for cloning, everything seemed to work fine. The laptop, however, does not like the result.
I did not extend the partition on the CF card, just wanted to try everything exactly as it came out of the cloning process.

Any vintage computing enthusiasts? Any suggestions? Different cloning software? Different adapter/CF card?

A Guy · May 17, 2022

A Guy

shura · May 17, 2022

Never!

It actually started working after I changed bios settings... Except I went on to partition the unused space and now W95 has two different letters for that same partition -- neither is readable, but shows up as D: and E:...

plodr · May 17, 2022

What do you hope to do with hardware that uses 16MB of RAM? Doing anything on it will be like watching a glacier travel.

I had an old 56K US Robotics modem. I used it when we had no cable so my modem and router weren't working. It was painful just to get email. I e-cycled it because I knew I'd never use it. It is far easier to grab a laptop or chromebook and find a hotspot. Now that I have a smartphone, I use that if the power goes out.

I agree with A Guy, take the hd out and e-cycle it.

Corday · May 17, 2022

There are vintage computer clubs, so it you're only doing this as a hobby, you might want to hook up with one.

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Cloning a windows 95 disk! :)

shura

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