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Ok I know it's possible to do this and there's heaps of resources on the internet, but what letter does it get recognised as ?
eg If a machine has no floppy and you boot it using a bootable USB drive is letter A: ?
Because if not, and you need to install SATA drivers by pressing F6 during setup, it asks for them on A: and with no floppy that's a bit hard ?
I found this cool link and tried it out on my OLD Creative MP3 player.
It went throuhg the process of formatting as floppy emulation etc.
But when I tried to boot with it, it didn't detect it as and emulated floppy.
Maybe the MP3 player can't be used and it has to be a dedicated USB key.
Since it is says it is a floppy emulation then I guess that means it is seen as A: much like a bootable CD that does floppy emulation.
Just a couple of thoughts ...
Is your motherboard BIOS capable of being set to boot from a USB device?
If your using a floppy drive A: emulation, is your BIOS's Floppy Drive A: set as a 3-1/2" 1.44MB and Enabled?
Tried it on a machine at work that has a floppy drive in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpywareDr
It is capable to boot from USB device.
I didn't check but presumambly since it has a floppy drive in it, then the BIOS setting is correct.
I'm more inclined to think that my MP3 player is not designed to be used as a boot device.
Is the MP3 player assigned a drive letter (in My Computer)?
Is any part of this article helpful?Langa Letter: XP On Your Thumb Drive
Fred Langa offers a step-by-step and illustrated guide on how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive.
http://www.informationweek.com/windo...leID=177102101
Well it seems that it might have had something to do with the machine already having a floppy drive.
I tried it on my new machine I got last Wednesday that has no floppy drive and it booted up from my USB MP3 player with no problem.
I found two different utilities on HP site.
One set the USB drive as C:.
Another set it up as A:, but limited the size to 1.44Mb which was a bit of a waste of my 1.5Gb MP3 player.
The final one was using MKBT which worked like a gem and basically allows you to modify the files on the "A:" drive just like a floppy as opposed to a bootable CD Rom running floppy emulation where all the files are protected.
Needless to say if I try booting my work PC it gets and error as there is a real floppy present and the BIOS doesn't have an option to disable it.
Well swap the existing floppy in the BIOS to B then and BE SURE to enable both A and B in BIOS.
See if that works. Should it seems to me.
I'll try it.
I was more interested in egtting the USB to boot as a floppy because my new Dell sysetm didn't come with a floppy as we chose an internal media card reader instead.
There is no option to sawp the A: to B: in the BIOS.
When I ahev some time I'll disconnect the physical floppy in my work machine and see if it makes a difference.