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looking for hard drive fitness utility that doesnt require floppy

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benjamit

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i have an old but never used ibm drive that needs testing but the utility that ibm provides requires a floppy and wont take any subsitutes, no zip, cdr, etc

i can boot into dos by the cdrom but where can i get the utility to test the drive?

ps- i got rid off all the floppy drives from my systems
 
Can you make a win98 boot-cd using EZCDCreator or Nero and add the IBM utility to it? Once you boot to CD, run the drive test prog?(Exe. file?) Kinda guessing here, but maybe it would work.
 
You have to put the Drive Fitness Test on a bootable CDR. It works.
 
i know i can put the test file on a cd but the test file is an exe zip file that makes a boot floppy/test prog combo

i cant just extract the test app without having a floppy

as it stands now i have to decompress the file, make the floppy, copy the test app from the floppy to a bootable cd, and then i can test the drive

i am wondering if theres a better more direct way
 
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