I bought this old notebook a few days ago without a power supply. Fortunately, even though the sticker on the bottom of the device says something about a 22.5 V power supply, the notebook can run without any problems with voltages ranging from 12 V to 25 V, and it has a very standard connector. Fortunately, there was no problem supplying it.
It came with a 500 MB hard drive and Windows 98 pre-installed. However, the system was incredibly slow and booting alone took about 20 minutes. Initially, I wanted to install a fresh system on the old drive, but I immediately found out that this would not be possible because transferring the 1.4 MB DOS floppy image took an hour. Also, the drive overheated after a few minutes of intensive deleting or writing, so I realised it was almost certainly dead.
So I chose to take a step that I did not really like. I replaced the drive with a CF card in an IDE-to-CF adapter.
But the problems didn't end there. I tried many approaches to burn existing Windows 95 or Windows 98 HDD images, but they all failed to boot. I also tried setting up DOS on the drive with the Windows setup folder. Windows 98 wasn't able to start the installation process at all, but Windows 95 went through the whole installation process without any problems. However, after the first boot, the system does not start and complains about an IO error or problems with files.
It's strange that the installation did not throw any errors and finished correctly.
So, I have now decided to just install DOS and fill it with games. I hope I will also be able to make the sound device work, as the pre-installed Windows 98 did not have sound. According to information found online, there is no driver for Windows 98, but it should work with minimal adjustments under DOS. So, I will see.
Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog
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