On 27 September 2017 at 18:29, allison via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Everyone forgets Norton Utilities... Well, no! Still use it, in fact. I have a copy of the last DOS version. A low-priority project of mine is that I am trying to make a running VirtualBox VM with PC-DOS 7.1. Not 7.01, but the version from the IBM Server Scripting Toolkit, with LBA and FAT32 support. My plan, if I can, is to get a few of the significant GUIs & my favourite apps running. FreeGEM, ViewMax, GEOS, DOSShell, DESQview & DESQview/X. And maybe MS Word 6, PC Outline, WordPerfect 6. Some stuff I could do actual productive work in, even now. But only a little bit of PC DOS 7.1 was released -- no SETVER, no SYS, no FORMAT, etc. So making a bootable disk is proving tricky. Norton is helping but only slightly. No full success yet: only a bootable floppy image, nothing more. But I don't remember NU doing low-levels. I know NDD could do sector testing and surface analysis, but only on DOS-formatted volumes, IIRC. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053
