Memtest86

[Kalessian]

God, I wish I could just use Linux to do this but none of my boxes have floppy drives.

I need a floppy disk, not a CD, with memtest86 on it. I lost mine. My only floppy drive machine with an OS right now is WinXP. I cannot make a memtest86 disk with it. It says that the memtest86 is a 16-bit DOS program and cannot be run under XP.

So I installed DOSBox. No go. I'm not good enough with it. I mounted the drives right, but the memtesprogram fails to see it as a drive...

This is extremely annoying, because I really want to see if I properly modded my 1.8 Duron's L2 cache.

Thanks in advance.

 

[mechBgon]

How about this idea, then:

1) Use WinXP to make a bootable DOS floppy

2) Put the Memtest86 floppy-creating utility on a second floppy

3) Have a third floppy handy

4) Boot from the bootable DOS floppy, then swap to the Memtest86-creation floppy, start it, and stick the blank floppy in there for it to write to


I don't know for a fact that step 4 works, but it wouldn't take long to find out. Good luck!

 

[Kalessian]

That's a great idea. You're right, all I should need is a Win98 boot disk, get the RAMdisk up, then switch over to the creation disk.

I was so mad I couldn't think straight.

Thanks.