Name: clay griffin Date: April 30, 2002 at 11:49:30 Pacific Subject: DOS 4.0 Boot disc on 3 1/2 floppy
Comment:
Would give an arm and a leg for boot disc... I have a Borland Super Micro 386 I bought in 1990 for 3,000. I uppgraded to 1/2 gig harddrive in 1992..Then to 2 meg video card, local ethernet, etc. It has never missed a lick. I also have an Indy Workstation . The CMOS battery ran low a month ago.. I paniced and copied the data and files from the harddrive..(physically removed it and paid 60.00 to burn a CD) In the process of going thru set-up I had to change date from 1900 to 2002, etc. and write to BIOS which is also not the original.. When I do all this (BTW the battery is recharged now), I need a boot disc (which I have lost!!. Bottom line is if someone has a boot disc then I will fedex the monies right away so I can finish my Phd..
Many thanks
Clay Griffin
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how about one free. just goto Bootdisk and download the one for ms-dos 4.01 and make it. Hey and just so you will know in the future just because the cmos battery dies dont mean you lose your harddrive. Although it is always a good ideal to back up. And if you paid 60 dollars to have a cd burnt a month ago you got ripped off. For that price you can buy 200 cds. I normally charge 2 dollars myself to burn somebody a cd. But in your case where i had to back get it up off a old hard drive i would have charged 5 or 10 dollars at most. I am not telling you to move away from dos but if you look around you might find a decent 300 - 500 mhz system for under 200 dollars thats capable of running windows 98. Oh yeah i would reccomend staying away from any computer shop or anybody that charges 60 dollars to burn a cd because they are probably just looking for another way to rip you off.
Ask around your academic associates for leftovers, of which they should have plenty. People are junking Pentium IIs nowadays, and anything as valuable as doctoral work deserves proper backup. Get thee a newer box and a CD burner (cheap at pricewatch.com listed sites) if your work is worth saving, and burn periodically as you work.
You did not make things very clear for someone working on a PHD. A computer you have been using since 1990 won't boot to drive C: now, so you need a MS-DOS 4.0 boot disk to SYS C: with? You do know that to just access drive C: any version of MS-DOS will do? I must say I am somewhat skeptical about a graduate student who paid $3000 for a computer and wants to BUY a boot disk.
