William L. Maltby spake the following on 7/31/2006 9:07 AM: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:58 -0700, Bruno S. Delbono wrote: >> * on the Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:54:02AM -0400, William L. Maltby was tippering: >>>> <snip> > >>> And from the old days, I wonder if this still works. >>> >>> boot from anything (usually a floppy) and do >>> >>> fdisk /mbr >> One needs a Win 9x or DOS for this to work. These days, fixmbr works equally >> well on Windows XP. > > Yep. Maybe it is time to toss the floppies for my Win95? I wonder if the > media is still good? In a box in a cool place. I doubt I load them on > anything again and I don't want to trust the media for anything actually > useful. > > I'm hanging on to Win98 though until I am convinced that WinXP is > actually better ... couple more years! ;-) XP might not be better, but as of now, it is the only one of the two that is still supported. To be real off-topic, has any one else tried Windows 3.1 on a current machine .. just for nostalgia? Talk about a fast OS! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!