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Offline Fabio

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USB floppy Booting
« on: June 03, 2005, 03:47:38 PM »
I just got a usb floppy and i want to load my SATA drivers from it so i can install windows... but windows only looks for drive a:.

Any one know how to change this so i can load of the new drive?
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Offline Nimby

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USB floppy Booting
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2005, 05:42:18 PM »
Does your motherboard support booting from USB devices?

if it doesn't, you're sorta screwed.
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USB floppy Booting
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2005, 10:59:04 AM »
It does.... but im not booting from a floopy... rather a X64 cd...

I need to know if its possible to load SATA drivers from the usb drive.
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USB floppy Booting
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2005, 11:58:12 AM »
why not just use a normal FDC floppy drive?

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USB floppy Booting
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2005, 12:20:00 PM »
lost old one... but its all good now i just went and got one for 3$
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