Re: Format a 256M USB drive as a floppy diskette
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:51:22 -0300
Man-wai Chang wrote:
John John wrote:
If you are wanting to do this because of the F6 driver issue the answer is that it won't work.
yes, it's intended for the F6 thing.
I am using HP USB Tool to set the Sony 256MB as a floppy diskette. WinXP could recognize it as a floppy when pressing F6 during installation. Even the BIOS could detect the USB stick as a floppy drive.
But HP's tool is proprietary. I was thinking about an open-sourced, Micro4oft or whatever tool.
I suppose there should be a standard for this kind of thing....
The drivers *must* be supplied on a floppy diskette. The setup program will not accept them from any other media source.
Limited OEM driver support is available with F6 during Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 setup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314859
You may be able to use a USB floppy drive but only a handful of drives are supported for F6 driver installation:
A connected USB floppy disk drive does not work when you press F6 to install mass storage drivers during the Windows XP installation process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196
Another alternative is to incorporate (slipstream) the drivers into the installation cd.
John
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