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I recently got a set of 770Z recovery discs from Bill Morrow that I wanted to use to recover my 770X. Bill didn't have the 770X specific discs but I figured that since the two models are so close hardware-wise that there would be little issue doing this.

However, when I booted the recovery disc, it flashed "Starting Windows 95..." like I had figured and then it restarted. It would continue doing this until I pulled the plug. I tired the discs in two other computers and the same thing happened.

There was a floppy image on the recovery disc that I pulled and wrote to a floppy and the same thing happened. My best guess is that it's looking for some certain hardware configuration that it isn't finding so it kills the process? I've been trying to modify the autoexec.bat and config.sys files on the boot floppy but I haven't gotten anywhere yet.

If anyone knows any tricks or has the 770x boot floppy image, that would be great. The discs from Bill are definitely written correctly.

I've used the 600X Win2K recovery CD's successfully with the 770X, but the 600X Win98 Recovery fails during the OS customization part and will blue screen after a reboot.
If you are trying to do Win95, it may be failing due to a real mode driver version difference between the X and Z models.

Thats interesting about the 600x recovery discs. The recovery disc I have is Windows 98. I can get slightly further by running the batch files off of the CD after booting from a different floppy but still nowhere close to getting the OS installed.

I've always had to install Win98/98SE on the 770X from retail media and install drivers later by hand, but of course I don't have the correct recovery media either.

The main reason I wanted it was to get my hands on the video capture software since I have the DEVA card

Yeah, me too. I have not been able to get the movie playback/decoder to work on W2K. There are several long threads here regarding the subject.