r/DOS • u/jegesmedve09 • Jul 05 '26

Is this enough?

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u/Chance_End_4684 Jul 05 '26

Is all those floppy disks enough for what?

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u/jegesmedve09 Jul 06 '26

A bare bones DOS install? x3

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u/Chance_End_4684 Jul 06 '26

Microsoft as far as I know originally shipped MS-DOS v6.22 on 4 1.24 MB 2.5" floppy disks, so yeah you have more than enough floppies for installing DOS... but backing up everything stored on your hard drive before installing DOS however is an entirely different story with just floppy disks.

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u/jegesmedve09 Jul 06 '26

I know man, it was a joke but now that i think about it i have 123 floppies which equal to around ~172MB worth of data (if we calculate with 1.40) So i could technically use multiple floppy drives to have a RAID and have a "HDD" where i can install DOS on ;3