Resurrecting a P1-133 for a friend's use. Has some IBM 1.5 GB C-drive and a 16 GB Maxtor - apparently designed for streaming video ['designed' ??]. I thought the 1.5 sounded like a stepper -from '96 though?- subjectively slow, running Beast-98 w/ 64 MB. SpinRite proved it: 26 mSec random access; half the Maxtor speed on burst test; 1/3 the speed on sustained xfer. (Maxtor clocked 12 mSec random) IBM OK for archiving and disconnecting.

So I used yours & Thane's neat scheme, wiped the Maxtor and moved the stuff over - though I decided on a nice acronym: /s/h/r/e/c/k/ after scoping the /? file. Worked like a charm for 10,0xx files. Tomorrow will do the swap. I noted that: if you just copy Xcopy32.exe (and .mod) to a floppy -- you get an attenuated switch listing, without the handy ones; guess you need a win32 api running for the fancy Boolean?

Thanks folks !! Saved lots of time. I bloody well didn't want to run through all that finding CDs, reconfig blah blah - when it has all the stuff needed for this minimal user, installed by an ept person.

If anybody has a Pentium1-166 CPU lying about, will pay in Euros or $.. (is there faster, for that pin-grid socket?) - I paid no attention to the 233s etc. so dunno when sockets got changed. Like to recapture the Ferrari Hayes Optima [RIP Hayes..] from this pedestrian use and stick in a Beast-modem card from somewhere; I imagine not a good plan for a P-133. Maybe not even for a -166?

PS ident - it's an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N mother, and a newer Promise Ultra33 HD ctrlr. (The IBM isn't ATA; Maxtor is) 4 slots filled with 16M 72-pin SIMMs, Fast Page or EDO. I doubt anyone has 4 x 32M ones lying about. On to Mozilla


Ashton
Her previous: 486-66 with 14.4 modem.. hey, some people ain't got no dough.
I love saving stuff from premature burial along with last November's crop; this one donated by a decent sort - a UQC here, even ;-)