Old system, please recommend an external storage device for booting - China DOS Union Forum

Pentium II, the motherboard has IDE, USB, ISA, PCI
Want to tinker (pure DOS 3.3, 5.0, 6.22, 7.1, Win3.1, Win95). Choose an electronic medium for drive C, and use a mechanical hard drive for drive D.
Please recommend a boot disk solution and briefly explain the reason.
Solution 1: CF card + IDE converter
　　　　How to expose the slot outside the case (like a graphics card plug)? It's convenient to change the CF card. Otherwise, you can only leave the case baffle open for a long time.
Solution 2: USB flash drive, SD card, flash (mobile phone) card
　　　　Is the motherboard supported? Can the machine boot?

Floor1　proof	Posted 2019-08-29 18:36
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Pentium II, the motherboard has IDE, USB, ISA, PCI Want to tinker (pure DOS 3.3, 5.0, 6.22, 7.1, Win3.1, Win95). Choose an electronic medium for drive C, and use a mechanical hard drive for drive D. Please recommend a boot disk solution and briefly explain the reason. Solution 1: CF card + IDE converter 　　　　How to expose the slot outside the case (like a graphics card plug)? It's convenient to change the CF card. Otherwise, you can only leave the case baffle open for a long time. Solution 2: USB flash drive, SD card, flash (mobile phone) card 　　　　Is the motherboard supported? Can the machine boot?

Floor2　proof	Posted 2019-08-30 20:06
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Further Steps Plan Three: tf/SD Card to IDE Treat the common and inexpensive tf card (mobile phone card) as the main hard disk (boot disk). If DOS and Windows can be normally booted, it will surpass other solutions. More convenient than CF card. Is there such a possibility?

Floor3　zhiguo7908	Posted 2020-04-07 21:10
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