HOLY SHIT MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I’ve been struggling for days trying to install 98 burning multiple discs and trying a official one but nothing worked before I tried this
Been stuck on this for a few weeks. I did the tutorial exactly as you did - but when I put the sd card into my computer, it gets stuck when loading the hard disk. If i pull the sd out, it recognizes it after a restart, and it boots from a mechanical disk fine. Need help with this 😅
I would like to try this out on an old late 90's PC that I have, however I don't have a 3D printer to print the 5.25" drive bay, or the reinforced slot bracket. Do you know where I could buy those parts at?
That's really odd. I've used it almost every day lately. Try writing to the drive and not resizing it. If I had to take a guess I would say whatever software is resizing it is probably breaking it. So if it boots without resizing then you at least narrow the problem down
The other thing is that just because you can write the card doesn't mean the BIOS can support a card that size. What kind of machine did you try to boot it on?
I may have missed something, the Flash boots to a C prompt and those operating systems need a C drive to install. Hence, the installation went straight to the Memory Card. Any thoughts on this?
That's the point. You use the SD card as your primary hard drive. Although you can use the SD card to copy those install files to a traditional hard drive if you want
Very good video, very well explained. 👍Thank you also for the links to Thingiverse, because I also own 3D printers. I'm just afraid that SD cards aren't particularly suitable for operating systems, because data is constantly being written to them and cached. Do you have long-term experience with it?
I've never had one die. I usually only buy the quality SanDisk ones and it's not like I run my retro computers all day everyday so they are perfectly suitable for that. I would not run it on my own desktop. Since they are smaller, they are also relatively easy they just back up
Gosh I wished this worked, looks amazing. I get the same problem as Level-ts, the INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER error. I'm installing it on a Compaq LTE 5300, I partitioned the sd card to 2.0gb and still nothing. I've tried the 6.22 flas as well and I get hung up on starting ms dos...still messing around with it but if you have any ideas it would be much appreciated
I'm guessing it's a bios issue. There are 2 issues that need to be solved. 1. Getting the proper files in the proper format (including hidden and partition tables) onto the sd card. Getting the bios to properly recognize the drive. Sometimes the computer takes care of step 2. Yours is a laptop, so I'm not 100% sure how, but the issue is that one way or another, you either need xt-ide bios or a card that is compatible with your bios.
For the LTE 5000 series, you probably won't want to exceed a 4GB card. Some people have had luck with 8GB but it has been mixed. At least that is the case for CF cards, never tried an SD card in one.
@@RetroTechChris The 8GB I had didn't seem to work for my Thinkpad 560 either. Switched to a 4GB one and that lets me boot the DOS 6.22 image but not this Win9x one for whatever reason (it gets past bios and tries to boot but complains about "Invalid system disk"). Seems like there's lots of things that can get you with these...
I don't understand why you would need to that. You can boot any of those os'es from a flash drive; which would let you use fdisk to format and partition the SD card.
Worked like a charm on my compact flash to IDE adapter, thanks so much!
Thank you ! The image worked perfectly. I used rufus to create boot disk from given image.
HOLY SHIT MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
I’ve been struggling for days trying to install 98 burning multiple discs and trying a official one but nothing worked before I tried this
Awesome! Glad it was helpful
Did the same process but on the IDE drive it self works great thank you !
finally, a solution to the very specific issue i was having
Outstanding video thanks.
You're very welcome!
Been stuck on this for a few weeks. I did the tutorial exactly as you did - but when I put the sd card into my computer, it gets stuck when loading the hard disk. If i pull the sd out, it recognizes it after a restart, and it boots from a mechanical disk fine. Need help with this 😅
Make sure you're using a smaller card. The system I've been fiddling at chokes on 64gb cards but works fine with 32gb cards
@@wotsac ive tried multiple 64gb a few 4gb and i dont really got anything else
I would like to try this out on an old late 90's PC that I have, however I don't have a 3D printer to print the 5.25" drive bay, or the reinforced slot bracket.
Do you know where I could buy those parts at?
I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing if you put it on Facebook that you needed something 3D printed, most people would be happy to do it.
This was very helpful. thank you!
tried this today and didnt work. i just get a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" error
That's really odd. I've used it almost every day lately. Try writing to the drive and not resizing it. If I had to take a guess I would say whatever software is resizing it is probably breaking it. So if it boots without resizing then you at least narrow the problem down
The other thing is that just because you can write the card doesn't mean the BIOS can support a card that size. What kind of machine did you try to boot it on?
I may have missed something, the Flash boots to a C prompt and those operating systems need a C drive to install. Hence, the installation went straight to the Memory Card. Any thoughts on this?
That's the point. You use the SD card as your primary hard drive. Although you can use the SD card to copy those install files to a traditional hard drive if you want
My Emachine tower hangs at "Searching for Boot record from IDE-0..OK"
Hmm. Can you boot to a floppy?
Very good video, very well explained. 👍Thank you also for the links to Thingiverse, because I also own 3D printers. I'm just afraid that SD cards aren't particularly suitable for operating systems, because data is constantly being written to them and cached. Do you have long-term experience with it?
I've never had one die. I usually only buy the quality SanDisk ones and it's not like I run my retro computers all day everyday so they are perfectly suitable for that. I would not run it on my own desktop.
Since they are smaller, they are also relatively easy they just back up
And thank you for the kind words
@@AnotherMaker Thank you for the quick answer, I'll try that out too.
Unfortunately it makes a non-DOS partition, according to FDISK on my DOS 6.22 boot disk.
Correct. Yea, this method is going to create a FAT32 partition, and DOS 6.22 will see that as "non DOS"
Interesting there my friend good work
Thank you!
Gosh I wished this worked, looks amazing. I get the same problem as Level-ts, the INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER error. I'm installing it on a Compaq LTE 5300, I partitioned the sd card to 2.0gb and still nothing. I've tried the 6.22 flas as well and I get hung up on starting ms dos...still messing around with it but if you have any ideas it would be much appreciated
I'm guessing it's a bios issue. There are 2 issues that need to be solved. 1. Getting the proper files in the proper format (including hidden and partition tables) onto the sd card. Getting the bios to properly recognize the drive. Sometimes the computer takes care of step 2. Yours is a laptop, so I'm not 100% sure how, but the issue is that one way or another, you either need xt-ide bios or a card that is compatible with your bios.
For the LTE 5000 series, you probably won't want to exceed a 4GB card. Some people have had luck with 8GB but it has been mixed. At least that is the case for CF cards, never tried an SD card in one.
@@RetroTechChris The 8GB I had didn't seem to work for my Thinkpad 560 either. Switched to a 4GB one and that lets me boot the DOS 6.22 image but not this Win9x one for whatever reason (it gets past bios and tries to boot but complains about "Invalid system disk"). Seems like there's lots of things that can get you with these...
excellent information
I don't understand why you would need to that. You can boot any of those os'es from a flash drive; which would let you use fdisk to format and partition the SD card.
did you know PCs did not always have USB? There's your answer to that one.
and don't necessarily like to boot from USB, and don't necessarily like to use usb mass storage when the os is installed
...and your hardware is ???
Great vid
can i use a cd for do it?