pen drive as floppy

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liquid_snake

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hello
is there any way to use usb pen drive as floppy drive specially when booting
as for cd may be emulated as floppy when using it 98 startup disk
plz let me know
all i want to do is back my xp installation & floppy is asked at the end
since they r not much durable any solution

& i cant convert my c: from ntfs to fat32 using partition magic 8
a task is scheduled for the purpose but nothing happens
 

Sukhdeep Singh

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liquid_snake said:
hello
is there any way to use usb pen drive as floppy drive specially when booting
as for cd may be emulated as floppy when using it 98 startup disk
plz let me know
all i want to do is back my xp installation & floppy is asked at the end
since they r not much durable any solution

& i cant convert my c: from ntfs to fat32 using partition magic 8
a task is scheduled for the purpose but nothing happens

1. You can make Pen Drive Bootable but you cannot emulate it as Floopy AFAIK.
2. Download Ultimate Boot CD or Hiren Disk. Use thse Boot Disks and try to convert using Dos based Partition Managers :)
 

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I think a certain Linux distro(can't remember which one), stored on a pen drive, can work similar to a bootable startup disk. Dunno if something similar can be done with any versions of Windows.
 

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Apollo said:
I think a certain Linux distro(can't remember which one), stored on a pen drive, can work similar to a bootable startup disk. Dunno if something similar can be done with any versions of Windows.

Yes, like i said....you can make Pen Drive bootable with Dos, Linux and there is Warez version of XP for Bootable USB
 
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liquid_snake

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hi sukhdeep
plz tell me hoe to make the pen drive bootable in dos
will be very thankful to u
 

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liquid_snake said:
hi sukhdeep
plz tell me hoe to make the pen drive bootable in dos
will be very thankful to u

Download here : *www.mediafire.com/?7wwkitwd7cr
 

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It depends on your mobo. Some mobos support pen drive booting and some don't. Refer to ur manual.
 
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liquid_snake

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sukhdeepsinghkohli said:
Download here : *www.mediafire.com/?7wwkitwd7cr

That worked & it was fabulous
thanks a lot
one more thing
now a days floppies are hard to be kept for long so use a image creator to backup ur floppy
any way thanks
 
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