{"id":7235,"date":"2021-11-23T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7235"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T11:23:57","slug":"here-are-boot-disks-for-nt-3-51","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-nt\/here-are-boot-disks-for-nt-351\/23262.html","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Boot Disks For NT 3.51!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moderators: this could be good material to archive in case someone needs these disks in the future, or maybe mark this post &#8220;sticky&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>I found a link that has the boot disks for Windows NT 3.51.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825093002\/http:\/\/www.mpcdrivers.com\/downloads\/boot.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mpcdrivers.com\/downloads\/boot.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scroll to the last few links on the page and voila there are the boot disks needed to install NT 3.51!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825093002\/http:\/\/www.mpcdrivers.com\/sylvia\/Support\/Bootdisks\/ntdisk1.exe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first disk<\/a>\u00a0is 669KB, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825093002\/http:\/\/www.mpcdrivers.com\/sylvia\/Support\/Bootdisks\/ntDisk2.exe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second disk<\/a>\u00a0is 532KB, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825093002\/http:\/\/www.mpcdrivers.com\/sylvia\/Support\/Bootdisks\/ntDisk3.exe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last disk<\/a>\u00a0is 610KB.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the instructions on each page, as you need to create them using the command prompt.<\/p>\n<p>These particular files (according the the site):<b>&#8220;BIOS and Boot Disk Files:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;*By double clicking on the .exe file, some files will automatically install the necessary components to a floppy disk.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Other files will require you to go to a DOS Prompt and complete one of the following steps: *After downloading the file, go to a DOS prompt that corresponds to the directory you copied the file to and type FILENAME \/S A:, where FILENAME is the file you have downloaded. The file will then extract to your floppy drive (A:). If using NT the forcedos may be required; example &#8220;forcedos C:\\WINNT\\Profiles\\username\\Desktop\\95boot24.exe \/s a:&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>*After downloading the file, to extract them to a floppy disk with their directory structure intact, type FILENAME A: -D, where FILENAME is the actual name of the file you have downloaded.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I used to be able to access them on MPC Corp&#8217;s website but they went bankrupt and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825093002\/http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080223234557\/http:\/\/support.mpccorp.com\/downloads\/boot.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archived page<\/a>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t have the proper files. Even pulling up the archived page will only let you download &#8220;binary&#8221; 4KB files, dunno what that is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":5},"question-category":[71],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-nt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}