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Step back into the mid-90s with me as I revisit the Quantum Bigfoot 1GB hard drive - a controversial leap in storage technology. In this video, I install it into my HIGHSCREEN Colani Tower PC, only to face a surprise bluescreen on Windows 3.11. It's a tale of retro tech, problem-solving, and a little trip down memory lane as I'm restoring the HIGHSCREEN Colani Tower closer to my Dad's original configuration back in the days. I'm THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, and this is my story! 00:00 Intro 00:40 About the Quantum Bigfoot Hard Drive 05:22 Installing the Quantum Bigfoot Hard Drive 06:10 The Bigfoot in Action 07:01 Fixing the Windows 3.11 FastDisk Driver Bluescreen 09:57 Conclusion / Next on TPC To support TPC, check out all my options on https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuale Stutz @alishamanuelastutz Christian Zerrahn @JARVIS1187 David Shell @TheMinocula Waseem al sammane @wsammane THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: HMK @hmichaelkraut7968 John DiLiberto @JohnMDiLiberto Jack Rosenthal @JackRosenthal1 Matthew Veety @MatthewVeety MS-DOS Manfred @msdosm4nfred Steven Glogger @sglogger xcalibur839 @xcalibur839 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2024 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see links). Theme Music composed by Abdallah El-Ghannam. https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam Additional music featured by rootkitty https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty Links: Quantum Bigfoot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot https://theretroweb.com/harddrives/1130 https://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/bigfoot_datasheet.pdf History of Hard Drives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives https://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.computers/c/UmJ3MMtbwEI https://web.archive.org/web/20120210214102/http://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/timeline_50_years_of_hard_drives.html Other Hard Drives for Comparison: BM 3380: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fireball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Barracuda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxtor About IDE Hard Drives in general, and CHS + LBA addressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#x86_BIOS_size_limitations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector Pricelist References: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3mzsci/1995_pc_hard_drive_and_optical_drive_price_list/#lightbox https://archive.org/details/pc-magazine-best-products-of-1994-jan-1995/page/n257/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/vobis-denkzettel-1993-05-21/Vobis%20Denkzettel%201993-00-00/ About the Windows 3.x FastDisk Driver / WDCTRL: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.ms-windows.misc/c/5F5ldNchjCg https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=80163 https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-to-please-wdctrl/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_disk_access https://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm https://github.com/Tony814/OntrackWMod http://web.archive.org/web/20210506185314/http://www.mdgx.com/files/32FBDA.ZIP http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2070&menustate=0