NT 3 Boot CD

[The_Flames]

Anyone  have any ideas of making some NT3 floppy disks into a boot cd? would a dump into a 386 dir and then using the nt4/ 2k  boot files work ?

I want to do this as I\'m scared that my NT3 floppies will become corrupt and I like to keep my bit of history. And having nt3 boot cd would be cool http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Space Between]

Im not sure what you mean??? would you be using these to actually setup NT3?? or just for zhit\'s and giggle\'s?? either way i guess it would work since NT3 is fat16...or is it?

[The_Flames]

it would be for fun mainly, but someday I may want to setup nt3 and show someone how OS\'s have progressed http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Space Between]

Im sure it will work. I know i had a DOS 4.? something disk that worked. I got it at a thrift store for .25usd...a quarter. It worked. With diskemu atleast. For some reasong it would NOT work in the A: drive though...it hung there for a few seconds and said Failure.  Made no sense but diskemu got it to boot. I made the image with dd right from the A:

good luck...sounds to me alittle like nostalgia is becoming a obssession :-)..im mean it\'s pretty bad to even have a option to setup DOS 6.22 from a CD!!!!! (o...btw that\'s a option on my disk :-P ..so i guess im in the same boat)

good luck actually finding drivers for it though. I mean that would be a miracle unless you had a old 8086 or some zhit. Still you would have to pray the drivers are on the HDD. I shouldnt say that because there is probably drivers for the ati Radeon 9700 pro for NT 3 out there made by some nut.

[Yukon]

I am in the same boat.

I think because all the files are named the same, perhaps using NT4/2000 image on the boot cd may work.

The only thing i can sugest is just trying it.

Copy all the files from the floppies onot your hard drive and make the boot cd from them files.  Put your floppies in a very safe place.

I have a download link for windows nt3.1 and I have both nt3.1 and 3.51 (better, can run office97 http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />) on my hard drive, but not yet installed them on anything.

Failing that,
try using the windows me boot file from this site, then use to boot to command prompt with cd-rom support (to load drivers etc) then run winnt.exe from the i386 folder?

perhaps you can edit the boot image to do this when you select to install windows from this cd in the boot menu?  Just then change Windows Millenium Edition to Windows NT 3.1/3.51 and it will look proper good and should work http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

post your email address and i will speak further to you on the subject via mail... if your interested http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[-I-]

What about USING NT3.5 of NT4.0 Drivers...
And YES THEY ARE COMPATIBLE (up to about 80% of the time)...
just change the .inf file to disregard the NT version nr.

[Big_Z]

Use winimage to create backup images of the floppies.