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Lord Vetinari
Flightless Bird
"Zootal" <nospam@spam.zootal.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9D0CE0641FC04nospamspamzootalnosp@216.196.97.131...
>> Floppy works fine here, but I'm using a USB drive, not an internal
>> drive.
>>
>> To tell the truth, I didn't know computers had floppy controllers any
>> more
>>
>> Maybe you can solve the USB stick problem...I can't, sorry.
>>
>
> I haven't yet had a board that didn't have a floppy controller - I'm sure
> they are there, but all of mine have them. Booting from a USB stick is not
> as realiable as booting from a floppy - ie. booting from a floppy always
> works. I have one board that won't boot from a USB stick if IDE0 is
> connected. I have another that only works if the USB stick is in a certain
> port. It's kinda like plug and pray...um...plug and play - it mostly works
> but is still quirky.
>
> I'm getting the idea that this is not a common problem - lucky me! I just
> boot to XP to do the floppy writes I needed - I just needed to make some
> partition magic boot disks. Boot to XP, run the PM floppy disk maker,
> reboot back to Win7, end of story. Six months from now I'll try to write
> something to a floppy disk and then remember, oh yeah, can't do that from
> Win7...<gg>...
Me, I just boot into Ubuntu, if I need to mess with partitions. Win7
doesn't do much with the Linux partitions....
news:Xns9D0CE0641FC04nospamspamzootalnosp@216.196.97.131...
>> Floppy works fine here, but I'm using a USB drive, not an internal
>> drive.
>>
>> To tell the truth, I didn't know computers had floppy controllers any
>> more
>>
>> Maybe you can solve the USB stick problem...I can't, sorry.
>>
>
> I haven't yet had a board that didn't have a floppy controller - I'm sure
> they are there, but all of mine have them. Booting from a USB stick is not
> as realiable as booting from a floppy - ie. booting from a floppy always
> works. I have one board that won't boot from a USB stick if IDE0 is
> connected. I have another that only works if the USB stick is in a certain
> port. It's kinda like plug and pray...um...plug and play - it mostly works
> but is still quirky.
>
> I'm getting the idea that this is not a common problem - lucky me! I just
> boot to XP to do the floppy writes I needed - I just needed to make some
> partition magic boot disks. Boot to XP, run the PM floppy disk maker,
> reboot back to Win7, end of story. Six months from now I'll try to write
> something to a floppy disk and then remember, oh yeah, can't do that from
> Win7...<gg>...
Me, I just boot into Ubuntu, if I need to mess with partitions. Win7
doesn't do much with the Linux partitions....