Backup & restore Bootable Diskettes?
Are there any downloadable utilities which will copy bootable diskettes to a hard drive and later create new diskettes? Preferably free utilities. I am broke right now.
Aside from Windows startup diskettes, several of my applications create bootable rescue diskettes. I would like to backup all my bootable diskettes to a CD.
I also intend to create a Cd which archives all the DOS & Win3.x software I have. It seems a shame to just trash all those diskettes.
BTW: Considering the lack of modern programming tools, some of the old DOS software was incredible.
The better DOS software requires obsolete (but pretty good) ISA Graphics Controllers. I have not had a Motherboard with an ISA slot for a few years now. Many excellent applications will not run using more than 16 colors on a modern system. I suspect that most DOS software will not run at all on soon to be built systems.
I might buy or build a system with an ISA-Slot motherboard and play with some of the old DOS software. Has anybody been doing this? I think such motherboards are still available.
Re: Backup & restore Bootable Diskettes?
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Originally posted by Guv
Are there any downloadable utilities which will copy bootable diskettes to a hard drive and later create new diskettes? Preferably free utilities. I am broke right now.
Aside from Windows startup diskettes, several of my applications create bootable rescue diskettes. I would like to backup all my bootable diskettes to a CD.
I also intend to create a Cd which archives all the DOS & Win3.x software I have. It seems a shame to just trash all those diskettes.
Hello Guv,
You need undisker to make your bootable images http://www.undisker.com/ . You could try VMWare for emulation of legacy PC hardware - I find that you can set it up to emulate a good range of 386+ environments.
A lot of the old DOS software is freely downloadable from the web as abandonware too.