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Emulating Floppy with Flash Drive (Read 85 times)
Aug 10th, 2005 at 8:57pm

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My Battlefield 2 "patch" has serious podged things up big time, so I'm having to do yet another fresh install of XP.  Again I'm going to have to go through the nightmare of SATA support, but I really have no patience to be transplanting the floppy drive from my dad's PC to make things work.  I remember the topic of using a flash drive to install SATA/Mass Storage support in lieu of a floppy was brought up.  How is this pulled off?
 

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Reply #1 - Aug 12th, 2005 at 7:56pm

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One last try...

Here is the original post.  My attempts with Google have produced nothing.

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there is a way to emulate a floppy via a USB stick.

Its how I flash my BIOS'es and use boot 'disks' and not have floppy in my computer.
 

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Reply #2 - Aug 13th, 2005 at 6:37pm

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Sorry, I missed your post. I give you a summary of what i did.

I installed a special versian of MSDOS on the stick, like those you find in boot disks, BIOS flash utilities, etc. that boots a seperate MSDOS running in memory.

Then off that DOS, I run a program that emulates a floppy drive and voila, a floppy drive on USD stick. This is how I flash my BIOS's and boot from floppies. Keep in mind that XP never runs during any of this. Think of it as a kind of knoppix, it runs entirely off the usd stick and memory.

The actual process is more complicated then it sounds and is risky if you don't know what you are doing. How you would get it to work during an XP install is beyond me.
 

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Reply #3 - Aug 13th, 2005 at 7:13pm

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This is situation where an old floppy from the re-cyclers is handy to have lying around. Just quickly hang the drive from the cable and use it briefly, then disconnect it until next time you need one. It takes less than a minute to pull the side cover off and hook a floppy into the system.
 

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