thank you harry,
i will look into these options.
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Indera
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Don't just live life.
Live life well.
: You can use a couple of different approaches.
: 1) Use a virtual floppy drive. This is a small driver that will emulate a
: floppy drive. If it is set as persistent you can use it from the Windows
log
: on screen. However it won't be available before windows loads.
:
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/bootdiscs/vfloppy.zip
:
: Extract to C:\ then open the folder called vfloppy and run "vfdwin.exe" to
: create your drive. You don't have to do much other than run the file and
: click the Install and then Start buttons. This will create a virtual
floppy
: identified by drive letter B. It will be a 5 1/4 drive but that doesn't
: matter. Now you have to load the drive with an image of a floppy to save
to.
: This is done from the command line. Go to Start->Run and browse to
: C:\vfloppy and use this syntax:
: C:\vfloppy\vfd.exe open b: blank.ima
:
: If all goes well you will have a drive with letter B loaded with a blank
: floppy that you can then run the password wizard on. Just change the
: location from 3 1/2 to 5 1/4. Save the password file. when you boo the
: computer you should be able to access this floppy providing you keep it
: persistent.
:
: To unload the floppy use the following from the command line
: C:\vfloppy\vfd.exe close b: blank.ima
:
: Use vfdwin.exe to manage the device.
:
: 2) Use a USB Thumb drive. The benefit is that it is a physical drive and
you
: will be able to open this drive before Windows loads. You will need to set
: it up to be recognized as a floppy drive. Read both pages here
:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1676
: You can create a bootable USB drive providing you have
: 1) BIOS that supports booting USB drive. You don't need the BIOS to boot
USB
: if you only want to use this for the password file
: 2) A tool that will correctly format the USB drive (link on 2nd page of
: above article or here
:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html )
: 3) bootable files (either image or floppy) to copy to the formatted USB
: drive . You can obtain bootable images from Plato's site here
:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
:
:
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:
: Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
:
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
:
:
: : > hello,
: >
: > i tried using this wizard, but it requests a floppy drive, which i don't
: > have on my laptop.
: > is there a way to use this wizard if you do not have a floppy drive?
: > i tried using a usb drive, but it wasn't recognized by the wizard.
: > any help would be greatly appreciated.
: >
: > thank you.
: > --
: > Indera
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: > Don't just live life.
: > Live life well.
: >
: >
: >
:
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