[SOLVED] Old pc needs boot floppy, help!

[projectfixit]

I got an old 386 machine and I finally got it to boot. Now I need help trying to get a boot floppy. None of the tutorials online help.I would like to get MS-DOS 4.0 on it because that's the most time accurate version.

 

[TerryLaze]

You can get all your boot disks here.

Welcome to AllBootDisks.com! | AllBootDisks - Providing Free Boot Disk Downloads. MS-DOS to Windows XP.

www.allbootdisks.com

Also you should look into an ide to sd card converter they are transparent to the host system and make things soooooo much easier.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?3&_nkw=40pin+ide+to+sd

 

[projectfixit]

Yes, this Pc supports 3.5 inch and 5.25-inch floppies. i have an assortment of both. i have a 3.5-inch usb reader/writer and a connection to the internet. I was asking where to download the ms-dos file and how to set it up on the floppy.

 

[cybo2001]

Yes, this Pc supports 3.5 inch and 5.25-inch floppies. i have an assortment of both. i have a 3.5-inch usb reader/writer and a connection to the internet. I was asking where to download the ms-dos file and how to set it up on the floppy.

Dude you're oooold school. Props. Please upload a screenshot once you get that OS running!

 

[TerryLaze]

Yes, this Pc supports 3.5 inch and 5.25-inch floppies. i have an assortment of both. i have a 3.5-inch usb reader/writer and a connection to the internet. I was asking where to download the ms-dos file and how to set it up on the floppy.

Yes, the first link I posted has all boot disks from DOS to windows.

You can use win32 disk imager to write the disks, be very very careful in choosing what device to write to, you can potentially destroy your data.

Win32 Disk Imager

Download Win32 Disk Imager for free. A Windows tool for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards . This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development...

sourceforge.net

 

[TerryLaze]

Sorry, wrong tool, this one is for floppies.
http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

 

[geofelt]

Try ebay.

 

[projectfixit]

Sorry, wrong tool, this one is for floppies.
http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/rawwritewin-0.7.zip

This is REALLY useful, thank you!

Try ebay.

I don't really want to spend money on this.