Windows 10 pain in the behind for making boot floppies
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:36 pm
I dont know if its just me or my win 10 install or the gigabyte mobo but gee trying to make a win 95b boot floppy was making me crazy. I tried about 10 internal floppy drives connected to it and they all had problems formatting disks and just wouldn't get past half way creating a boot floppy using either downloaded boot disk images or self creating exe files.
I got a brand new box of Imation floppies I bought just before they stopped selling them from regular suppliers and stuck a new disk in. No good. Tried another and another and another and yes another. All bad. I thought this tech isnt that bad and ALL of these floppies cant be degraded. Finally thought the h$ll with this went to a actual windows 95 computer (needs new install but still works) and tried one of the "faulty disks".. Worked perfectly. Then tried creating a boot disk there. Also smooth as. Stupid windows 10! LOL. Avoid my pain. If your having trouble messing with your legacy drives in 10 dont think straight away you have a bad drive or bad floppy disks. Ive not tried yet but I think all my imation disks will work just fine in my dusty but trusty Pentium 133.
I got a brand new box of Imation floppies I bought just before they stopped selling them from regular suppliers and stuck a new disk in. No good. Tried another and another and another and yes another. All bad. I thought this tech isnt that bad and ALL of these floppies cant be degraded. Finally thought the h$ll with this went to a actual windows 95 computer (needs new install but still works) and tried one of the "faulty disks".. Worked perfectly. Then tried creating a boot disk there. Also smooth as. Stupid windows 10! LOL. Avoid my pain. If your having trouble messing with your legacy drives in 10 dont think straight away you have a bad drive or bad floppy disks. Ive not tried yet but I think all my imation disks will work just fine in my dusty but trusty Pentium 133.