Part 1- Overview of Formatting Floppy Disk Part 4: How to Recover Data from Hard Drive after Format?.Part 3: How to Format Floppy Disk on Mac.Part 2: How to Format Floppy Disk in Windows 10/8/7.Part 1: Overview of Formatting Floppy Disk.Only use DP to slip drivers, do not use Nlite for this task. If you use other customizing software for other reasons than drivers such as Nlite, use Nlite first then driver packs Last or install problems will result. I don't change any of the default settings when using the software, just pick the driver packs you want to slipstream and create the ISO image. If you want All the drivers slipstreamed it will require a DVD burner to make the DVD and a DVD drive on the target installation PC. You can install other driver packs besides the "Mass Storage", but this will bloat the size of the XP install to DVD size, The only driver packs I suggest to slipstream are Use driver packs to slipstream "Mass storage" drivers into the XP CD. It's annoying having to slipstream the drivers onto Win XP setup CDs. And I think there might be a way to classify a USB device as a USB floppy drive.Īnyone ever been down this road and had any success? Which is how Windows often can tell the difference between a removable USB stick or an external hard drive.
I assume there's some sort of hardware "bit" that defines what class a USB device belongs to. I've tried creating a single partition on a USB stick of 1.44MB and formatting as FAT12 but Win XP setup wouldn't recognise this. If the BIOS believes it's a USB floppy drive, then Win XP setup should think there's a floppy disk attached and all I need to do is drop the AHCI drivers onto a USB stick!Īnyone know if anything like that is possible? Is there a way to reconfigure a USB stick so that it appears to the system as a USB floppy drive? With laptops these days, many have an option in the boot order of the BIOS to boot from a USB floppy drive and that got me thinking. I realise I could put the drive in IDE compatibility mode in the BIOS but I prefer to try and run with AHCI if possible. Every so often I need to install Win XP on a machine that has a SATA drive and have to go through the whole mess of finding a floppy drive for the AHCI drivers and hitting F6 during setup, or slipstreaming them onto the Windows XP installation media.
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