Man this takes me back. I can still remember my dads frustration installing the os lol. Really wanting to do a cdrom, floppy build. Just so my kids can see what i grew up with lol.
I like your channel, seems like you got a good thing going. Do you ever want to do some "Sleeper builds?" you seem like you would be able to create some really cool stuff!
The Norton Disk Doctor in Norton utilities 8 for DOS were able to "re-magnitize" faulty disks, don't know how true it is, but it saved my butt as a kid back inhe day multiple times
The Prolinea has a four-pin header for an external battery if you don't feel like soldering something to the board. You can use a remote battery holder with a jumper cable to that header.
I remember doing this with my Dad, though for I think Windows 95. I also remember that, due to the copy protection, we had to make duplicate copies of every disk as the original would wipe itself during install. I have no idea if that was accurate, I just remember we had to do it.
I'm shocked you didn't run into something where the disk wrote and verified properly on the source system but wouldn't read on the target. Used to happen to me at the worst times.
@@IkesVintageTech You're lucky the installation process had sufficient error recovery code. I've had installs/setups die when reading a bad disk (ie. supposed to recover/resume, but did not).
06:28 english really uses "given up the ghost" as phrase? we use that in german too, but "ghost" is a really really....really bad translation. "geist" in german isn't ghost...it's more like "soul".
@@IkesVintageTech so apparently your german family spirit lives on. still funny, how those phrases pathing through time and language-borders. like your win98-video, which i'm looking at with win11...26 years later
