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How to make the USB Flash Drive to boot as Floppy assigned to A:?
I got a SanDisk Cruzer mini USB Flash Drive. Does anyone know how to
partition the flash drive to make it simulate one floppy drive, one hard drive? In this case, if we make the flash drive bootable, the BIOS can recognize the flash drive as A: drive and C: drive and choose one of it to boot. |
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On 2 Jan 2005 11:43:59 -0800 Not alowing their prejudice to rule their
future "Joseph" wrote : I got a SanDisk Cruzer mini USB Flash Drive. Does anyone know how to partition the flash drive to make it simulate one floppy drive, one hard drive? In this case, if we make the flash drive bootable, the BIOS can recognize the flash drive as A: drive and C: drive and choose one of it to boot. Nice challenge.Would take a lot of thunking.As the Flash drive may not be allowed in a BIOS as a Bootable option?Now there's a start of the problems :P Game-on -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free original songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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The following paragraphs are what I know about how to create a bootable
USB flash drive as a USB hard drive. I'm still searching about how to create a bootable USB flash drive as a USB floppy drive. If anyone knows, please share your idea. If your BIOS support booting from USB devices such as USB floppy drive, USB hard drive, or USB cd-rom, etc, and your USB flash drive doesn't restrict you to write on the 0 sector, you can make your USB flash drive bootable as USB hard drive. Most of the recent BIOS and USB flash drive support this. There is a good tool, http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/20306.html You can make a bootable floppy or cdrom first, and use the above hp tool to format and create a bootable usb flash drive based on your bootable floppy or cd-rom. The following sites have some bootable floppy disks that support network, cd-rom, modulized booting, etc. They are MS-DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, etc. mode. http://www.allbootdisks.com http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ |
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"Joseph" wrote in message oups.com... I got a SanDisk Cruzer mini USB Flash Drive. Does anyone know how to partition the flash drive to make it simulate one floppy drive, one hard drive? In this case, if we make the flash drive bootable, the BIOS can recognize the flash drive as A: drive and C: drive and choose one of it to boot. I had to find a utility that would format the USB drive to be bootable. HP has one that seems to work with most memory sticks... Try Googling for "HPUSBF.EXE" or "HPUSBFW.EXE" or something called "DriveKey" |
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