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Stinkerton18 Moderator -------- Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 97 Likes: 75 |
Jan 30, 2024 - #1
Hey fellow PC users! A long time ago, two decades at this point, I took the time to put together a bootable CD with the world's most convoluted series of nested DOS config.sys/autoexec.bat menus to get access to some commonly used utilities, speed up loading an OEM install of Win95/98/ME/2000/XP, etc.
BackgroundComprised of software available circa 2000-2003 era, this CD was used a lot at the computer repair shop I worked at to do:
The CD itself also had a pretty large collection of DOS utilities (from the "Windows 98" version of DOS, essentially 7.0) like:
All of this was crammed in just over 1/2 of a standard 650MB CD. There was even a folder with all of the boot files to put onto a standard 1.44MB floppy in case you had a system that wouldn't boot CDs directly. It's been a CD I've used quite a bit for many years.
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phunguss Active Tinkerer Stillwater, MN -------- Joined: Dec 24, 2023 Posts: 513 Likes: 441 |
Jan 30, 2024 - #2
Petter Nordahl-Hagen NT password reset tool?
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Stinkerton18 Moderator -------- Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 97 Likes: 75 |
Jan 30, 2024 - #3
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phunguss Active Tinkerer Stillwater, MN -------- Joined: Dec 24, 2023 Posts: 513 Likes: 441 |
Jan 30, 2024 - #4
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Stinkerton18 Moderator -------- Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 97 Likes: 75 |
Jan 30, 2024 - #5
:p I am kinda curious what tools are out there though, and it's not like I won't need to investigate boot chain loading anyways. |
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Stinkerton18 Moderator -------- Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 97 Likes: 75 |
Jan 31, 2024 - #6
Moved this thread as I figured it was better suited to the Lab->Software section.
I'm also debating now if "ADHD scope creep" might be worthwhile here. A lot of the features are pretty self-contained or easily chainable, like IDE/SCSI booting to a command prompt with CDROM drivers loaded. It would be fairly easy to make it modular and have a "choose your own adventure" style menu. |
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Stinkerton18 Moderator -------- Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 97 Likes: 75 |
May 14, 2024 - #7
Good grief, I've let this lament way too long. I finished the bigger uplift with cleaning some sections up, removing old/no longer relevant menu options, and adding greatly expanded SCSI card/CD/removable drive support and have been using it for a little while now. Here it is in all its glory.
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