Booting up every leaked Windows 95/Chicago builds - 58 different hard drive seeking sounds!

Booting up and shutting down every leaked Pre-RTM Windows 95/Chicago beta builds on real hardware taking a quick look at them and listening to 58 hard drives sounds! (I used a different hard drive for every build!)
(These are all the leaked builds availlable from betaarchive as of June 2022, excluding 73f which is identical to 73g with a different bug report executable)
Used hardware is a Pentium I with 24MB of RAM, Vibra16 sound on the motherboard and a S3 Trio64V2 graphics adapter. (75MHz CPU for the parts recorded in March, 133MHz for those recorded in June)
Hard drive capacites range from 40MB to 6.4GB.
I started this idea back in March so some of the recordings are from back then. I had given up at the time, and came back to it in June.
This explains why the recordings differ in quality.
Was this a good idea? I don't know. It took a long time to make... If you are interested by Windows 95's history and/or you like the sounds of hard drives seeking then you may like it I guess.
If you really did find it interesting I may consider doing it for other OSes.
Do not question the order in which I used the drives, it doesn't make sense.

[@windisk1112]

WOW This must have taken so long to make! 10/10 video.

[@arnlol]

Yes it really did. Most of the installs were made in March, it took a few full days just to install all the builds. And then I needed to record them all and add all of them in the editing software, add the drive pictures, text etc... So yeah it took a bit of time, but since I like messing arround with old computers and hard drives it wasn't a big problem. Glad you liked it :)

[@windisk1112]

@@arnlol Yes this was relaxing ; )

[@uc8tv]

Yay! The Maxtor 90651U2 made an appearance! Windows 95 has changed a lot! Microsoft Chicago to Beta 1 to May test release to RTM!

[@tyta1]

Thank you for the nostalgia 🙂 The first drive in the video was actually designed by Tandon before WD bought them out.

[@arnlol]

Yes it is. As far as I understand they bought Tandon and slapped an integrated controller on the drive rather than them being MFM. I think these are some of the very first IDE drives. I do have a video of this exact drive that I made in 2021.

[@mikixyz123]

​@@arnlol hey, so recently I have found an mysterious WD-262 hard drive. There's no info about it. It is in a 5.25 inch backet, half height. Looks almost like the WD90344-A, but it has the strip going from the middle of the drive. (the circle part with 5 dots). On front it has a sticker that says: DRIVE TM-262 TYPE 6 FORMAT MFM It's listed as untested. Do you maybe have any info about it?? Thanks

[@arnlol]

@@mikixyz123 Well I don’t have any MFM drives, but from a quick search it appears to be a WD branded Tandom TM262 which would be a 20MB MFM drive. The WD39044-A also has the stripe under the circle at the middle, it’s just hidden by the drive’s label. Considering they both are from tondon designs I assume they are quite similar.

[@mikixyz123]

@@arnlol makes sense. The seller also has some rare drives, even a couple healthy MFM hard drives! From rare drives I found an Miniscribe drive, and a MFM drive from the brand "Cogito Systems". Also with the strip I meant that the WD-262 has the strip uncovered while the WD90344-A has the strip covered with an sticker.

[@iSnarkTV]

I love very vintage computers When hearing old HDD i knew it will my only ASMR vidéos

[@JOKU877]

Hey which hdd has the most space in the list. looking for 3 to 6gb to add into my desktop.

[@ArchangelTirael]

💡 Did you know... You can use long filenames when you save documents. You can even use spaces!

[@theredytper]

Can you please do a video of the Seagate ST31270A?

[@andic6676]

Mega!

[@Kali_Krause]

Is there going to be a Windows 98 beta version ? Surprised the ST-157A can hold that capacity for Windows Chicago beta

[@arnlol]

The ST-157A can even store the RTM version actually. It will refuse to install on it, but if you make a minimal install on something else then copy all the files it will fit. The early betas install just fine on it though, which is why the 40MB drives are towards the start before the builds grew larger. If this video is received well then maybe I will do Windows 98, but I would not expect that anytime soon. Even if I decide to go for it, the installs would take much more time to do compared to Windows 95 since 98 has a lot more files.

[@getlingganyooger]

can you test windows whistler and xp leaks ? and its a good video

[@arnlol]

If this video is received well, then maybe I will, but I wouldn't expect that anytime soon. I would probably go for Windows 98 first, and also installing all Whistler builds would probably take a very high amount of time and i'm not even sure if I have enough hard drives with sufficient storage space to do all the builds (Without using too modern ones which are very complicated to record since they are so quiet).

[@pocoyomickey_YT]

do you have unleaked builds?

[@ninteenth]

Timestamps for People Who Wanna Navigate T0 Their Favorite Hard drives. 0:00/ 58s Western Digital WD93044-A ??:?? 73f ??? ??? (not included due to : only one difference in winbug to 73g) 1:03/ 73g Maxtor 7540AV 2:31/ 81/ Seagate ST-157A 4:28/ 89e Seagate ST351A/X 5:59/ 90c Seagate ST3144A 7:19/ 99/ Seagate ST3145A 9:45/ 116 Western Digital Caviar 280 ??:?? 121 ??? ??? (not included due to : not leaked at the time of release) 10:55 122 Seagate ST3096A 12:14 180 Conner CFS210A 13:02 189 Seagate ST-1102A 14:15 216 Maxtor 7131AT 15:15 222 Conner CP30254 16:16 224 Seagate ST3290A 17:13 225 Seagate ST3295A 18:14 263 Seagate ST3391A 19:14 267 Seagate ST3491A 20:14 275 Conner CFS541A 21:00 285 Seagate ST3660A 21:50 286 Seagate ST3630A (not included due to : owner forgot it existed.) 22:37 302 Seagate ST3850A ??:?? 306 ??? ??? (not included due to : not leaked at the time of this video being published) 23:31 310 Seagate ST3250A 24:28 311 Seagate ST-1144A 25:34 314 Seagate ST3120A 26:31 318 Seagate ST3195A 27:43 323 Maxtor 7850AV 28:50 324 Seagate ST3243A 29:40 328 Quantum Fireball 1080AT 30:22 331 Seagate ST31270A 31:03 337 Samsung SHD-3062A 32:03 342 Seagate ST31276A 32:45 345 JTS Champ C1300-2AF 33:28 347 Quantum Bigfoot 2110AT 34:28 405 Seagate ST32122A 35:11 411 Seagate ST32132A 35:54 420 Western Digital Caviar 22500 36:42 431 Seagate ST33210A 37:26 435 Maxtor 90320D2 38:12 440 Quantum Fireball EX4.2AT 38:52 445 Seagate ST34311A 39:30 450 Fujitsu MPD3043AT 40:11 456 Seagate ST34321A 40:46 462 Western Digital Caviar 64AA 41:19 468 Fujitsu MPD3064AT 41:53 474 Seagate ST32120A 42:29 480 Maxtor 90651U2 43:03 484 Western Digital Caviar 2635 43:40 490 Maxtor 7213AT 44:26 499 Western Digital Caviar 2120 45:20 501 Western Digital Caviar 2200 45:59 708 Western Digital Caviar 2250 46:43 720 Western Digital Caviar 2340 47:25 810 Quantum Fireball 640AT 47:59 812 Western Digital Caviar 2420 48:37 818 Western Digital Caviar 2540 49:14 842 Western Digital Caviar 2700 49:49 950 r2 Quantum Fireball EX6.4AT 50:19 950 r3 JTS Nordic N1620-3AR 51:00 950 rtm Western Digital Caviar

[@danielckw0206]

Why there are so many hdd, are they being used in Microsoft?

[@arnlol]

No I just decided to install each build on a different drive, but it doesn't matter. I have enough drives to install each build on a different one rather than wipe and install all the builds on the same one, which also makes my life easier, I can just intall all the builds then record them all once done with the installations.

[@ComputerBoyTheEntertainer]

@@arnlol Wait, the OS is installed inside the hard drive? never knew that or am i just wrong

[@MyComputerStudios_]

20:15 this conner drive is the second one you have right? you may not wanted to format the first one.

[@arnlol]

Yes it is the other one that I didn’t use in the main video of this drive model. The other one is the one I usually use on the PI and as you said I did not want to format it especially since I have two of those.

[@MyComputerStudios_]

@@arnlol at 2:31 why did you use the ST157A with worn bearings?

[@arnlol]

@@MyComputerStudios_ Originally I used both, but when I came back to it I decided I would do no duplicate drive models. The 73g build was on the other ST-157A but was really slow to load, so I replaced this one with the Maxtor 7540 (which I used on an early build because of the drive’s issues, as the first partition is only about 60MB) as 81 on the noisier ST-157A didn’t take nearly as long to start up.

[@MyComputerStudios_]

@@arnlol did you try swapping PCBs on the ST157As?

[@musicmarkv8457]

Outdated!!!!!!!