Originally Posted by JFettig If your using newer windows, they make usb floppy drives wich may fix your problem? |
Ever tried to boot from one?
I guess new BOISes may know how to boot from USB floppies, but I have not seen any one that would.
I recently installed Windows Server 2003 on a floppy-less machine with a SCSI controller. At one moment, setup asked me to insert a floppy with SCSI driver. It was the year 2003 when the Server 2003 was engineered, so I did not even think twice before burning the driver files into a root directory of a CDR. You think it tried to read it? Yeah, right! That setup proggie asked me if I really think that was a floppy disk to roll it into a tight scroll and stick it and then install a real floppy... Sorry, I got a bit carried away. Microsoft recommended either making a custom installation CD by "slipstreaming" the original with the driver (I tried to imagine how this verb would have been formed... then took an attempt at finding its synonyms - "to gumshoegush" was perhaps the best), or to connect a floppy drive to the server. Nice. Did I already mention that this was the year 2003?
I found a floppy connector when took the box apart, and then I did not slipstream that day.