USB Floppy Drive and BIOS

[Sandman]

Not many reasons to bother with the lowly 1.44mb floppy but I want to have
one available in an emergency, so I bought a USB external floppy drive. My
question; If I don't have an internal floppy drive mounted, can I disable
FDD in my BIOS, so at boot, there is no 'search' for it and still plugin the
USB floppy on an 'as needed' basis only, or do i have to leave drive enabled
in BIOS?.....
Follow me? Thanks for any direction on this....

 

[Richard Urban]

The floppy drive search in the bios is only for a drive physically connected
through a floppy cable. It does not detect USB floppy drives. Disable
everything that has to do with the old floppy drive.

The USB floppy drive is covered under other USB devices, other boot devices
or something along those lines.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Sandman]

Thanks for the quick and direct reply, Crusty.. I appreciate it muchly,
answers my question...

 

[Plato]

one available in an emergency, so I bought a USB external floppy drive. My
question; If I don't have an internal floppy drive mounted, can I disable
FDD in my BIOS, so at boot, there is no 'search' for it and still plugin the

Yep

 

[Darrell S]

The ability to boot to a floppy used to be necessary if something was wrong
with your hard drive preventing boot up. You could then put a bootable
floppy in the internal drive and boot to it and try to remedy the problem.

With most XP computers you can set up your BIOS to first look to a bootable
CD and then to C: drive. That way, if you cannot boot to C: you can put
your WinXP CD in the CD drive and boot to it. Then you have much more
ability to correct the problem then you used to be able to do only using a
bootable floppy.

 

[Sandman]

Thanks, already understand that.. My question was not about booting or
fdisking from floppy, but about not using an installed floppy, but a USB
floppy in its' place, just in the event I might need the floppy drive for
something (doubt it tho') With flash thumb drives so ubiquitous, who needs a
floppy anyway.

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

It depends of your BIOS. Mine (an ACER C-110-CTi TabletPC Notebook)
can boot to a non-ACER floppy drive connected to the USB port.

Not many reasons to bother with the lowly 1.44mb floppy but I want to have
one available in an emergency, so I bought a USB external floppy drive. My
question; If I don't have an internal floppy drive mounted, can I disable
FDD in my BIOS, so at boot, there is no 'search' for it and still pluginthe
USB floppy on an 'as needed' basis only, or do i have to leave drive enabled
in BIOS?.....
Follow me? Thanks for any direction on this....

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!