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    emulatin Floppy with USB drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by conejeitor, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. conejeitor

    conejeitor Notebook Evangelist

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    Still many programs out there that require a boot disk, will not use a USB drive, although most motherboards support booting from it.
    I wonder if there is a way to emulate it, make Windows (or any OS) believe that the USB drive is actually a floppy disk.
    Thanks.
     
    conejeitor, Jul 31, 2007
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