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Name: KaNok
Date: July 21, 2004 at 07:52:18 Pacific
OS: well... dos for the momen
CPU/Ram: 33 mhz, 8 megs ram
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I have a Toshiba T1910 (not cs version, meaning a monochrome display) and about a year ago I bought it off some kid for ten bucks. Anyways it had an installation of Windows 95 on it, and it was filled with crap and didnt let me use a serial mouse cause it said the com port was being used by a modem (and it only gave me one possible com port to install the mouse on) that wasn't there and when i tryed uninstalling it from device manager the system would crash, i would re-start, and the modem would still be there. So I decided to format the thing and install windows nt 3.51 because i didnt have a set of windows 95 floppys and there is no cd-rom drive and i didnt much feel like spending 30 bucks on a parallel cd drive. So I installed 3.51 (which i had to open the box before because i had never used any installation of windows older than nt4 or win95) and it worked fine for a year (also, the mouse came to life) untill a week ago when it just started acting really really slow. So i figured no biggy and i re-partitioned it with a windows 98 boot disk and rebooted again with the nt 3.51 boot disk or disk one or whatever you wanna call it and it said that the disk was screwed up. So i put it in my xp system and tried to copy the disk to another floppy (because when cd's get scratched i do this and it usually works, dont ask why) and it couldnt access something that was called hallipic.dll or something like that. it reads the other files fine. So i guess my question is is that in the disk one it is labeled setup boot disk and you can download boot disks for like windows 95 and 98 and so can i replace this disk for free?

sorry i talk alot



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Name: jboy
Date: July 21, 2004 at 08:22:32 Pacific
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Yeah, boiling it down wouldn't have hurt.

Don't know if it's what you need (or how it relates to Win3.1x), but check here


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Name: dominicus
Date: July 22, 2004 at 10:14:30 Pacific
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NT351 will create new boot floppies right before the install that you can use,if you just enter winnt.exe (in the i386 directory on the CD) from a dos prompt(it's OK to use a dos bootdisk).
If you want to not bother at all with bootdisks, just enter winnt /b at the prompt and it'll take the boot files and just copy them from the cd right to the harddrive- and proceed with the install immediately...much easier, unless you want to have the bootdisks for later...im pretty sure though you'll need an extra floppy anyways on hand when it asks to make a recovery disk..later in the install...


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