Unable to boot from floppy

[FRG]

System is a Vaio laptop with Win XP

Floppy is attached via USB port

First boot device is set to FD in BIOS

Attempted to create and use a floppy to just boot the computer but when run
alert says no OS found.

Floppy does work as a boot disk in older computers where floppy drive is
interfaced to computer with a FDD cable.

Suggestions??

Thanks

 

[Kenny S]

Well the usb is perplexing things...
why dont you boot from the xp cdrom?

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Hope this Helps, let us know!
Kenny S
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[FRG]

Well the usb is perplexing things...
why dont you boot from the xp cdrom?

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Hope this Helps, let us know!
Kenny S
www.computerboom.net
Freeware and more!

Need floppy as I use Norton Ghost as a bk up. They need a DOS boot disk on a
FDD to cover a HD failure.

 

[LVTravel]

Unless your computer manual advises that the bios has drivers for your USB
floppy drive you can not use it to boot your computer. Only drives which
are installed in the machine or have a different interface from the
manufacturer of the computer can be used to boot from floppy. I have to
assume that this floppy drive is an aftermarket unit. To use it you need to
be in Windows XP with the USB drivers installed.

What you can do is to create a CD ROM boot disk with the appropriate drivers
installed for the CD ROM drive and also configure it for Ghost.

The reason it is saying no OS found is that it is not recognizing the floppy
drive.

 

[FRG]

Unless your computer manual advises that the bios has drivers for your USB
floppy drive you can not use it to boot your computer. Only drives which
are installed in the machine or have a different interface from the
manufacturer of the computer can be used to boot from floppy. I have to
assume that this floppy drive is an aftermarket unit. To use it you need to
be in Windows XP with the USB drivers installed.

What you can do is to create a CD ROM boot disk with the appropriate drivers
installed for the CD ROM drive and also configure it for Ghost.

The reason it is saying no OS found is that it is not recognizing the floppy
drive.

Thanks for the cure, I suspected as much but was not sure.

Regards

Frank

 

[Guest]

LVTravel - Is there a step-by-step instruction to create a XP Prof bootable CD?

Thanks.