OnTrack Disk Manager - Installation and then living with it

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I had an idea that I would attempt to rebuild the first computer that I bought for myself, meaning that I would scour the Internet looking for the exact same motherboard and graphics card that I had back then. Turns out that not many went out of their way to save the cheapest of hardware known to the depths of the 90s, using it came with some rather interesting limitations as well - it was one of few Pentium-era motherboards that didn't work properly with more than a 504MB hard-drive.

Back then that was solved using Ontrack Disk Manager as that was included, join me for a new basement adventure as we get that installed - and - ultimately try to figure out how to get data in and out of a compact flash card with a filesystem no longer recognizable by Windows. There may be better ways, but this is the one I know about.

For more in-depth information about the limitations that caused the 504MB limit, see the referenced article at http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/bioslim.htm by J. Steunebrink.

Software needed:
Ontrack Disk Manager (https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ontrack-disk-manager.html)
Win32 Disk Imager (https://win32diskimager.org/)
PCem (https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/)

00:00 Introduction
00:24 Why I needed it
01:44 First backup
02:11 Ontrack installation
04:36 Installing DOS 6.22
05:55 Second backup
06:47 PCem
07:54 Setting up virtual machine
10:00 Migrating old data
12:25 Formatting logical partitions
13:15 Getting files in and out
17:50 Writing data back to CF
18:25 Testing it out
19:30 Outro