mrbret Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Does anyone have an external 3.5" floppy drive with USB connector I could use for an hour or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectorvictor Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Sorry no dice. Thats one of the few things I dont have.What you need that for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hey Mr Bret. I do have one. Want to come pick it up tomorrow night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 That would be cool Satan. I am off work from 8:30am & back in at 10pm.I'll be heading over to see Stefan (with the R1-LE) about 7pm. He is pretty close to Kickstand pub area.Where do you live? just PM me if you like, i'll be on here till 8:30 now.I need it to try a boot disk on a friends PC that is one of the HP slimline things with no 3.5" drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB12Ss Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Could you just save yourself some grief and use a CD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectorvictor Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Could you just save yourself some grief and use a CD?+1.. I have a burner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 I thought of that but it does not seem as easy as doing it with the 3.5" drive. I guess the PC looks at the 3.5 drive before the hard drive but not so with the CD-ROM.From what I can find you need to change the BIOS setting or something & I dont want to mess about to much with all that.They are getting the PC replaced under by HP & they just need a couple of files off there before they send it back to HP.I wish I could just plug a USB cable from my PC to that one & copy stuff that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benyen Soljax Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 the bios settings you have to change are fairly simple. you just want it to recognize the cd as the boot disk instead of the floppy. much les hassle than tgetting a floppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB12Ss Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 It might not read the USB floppy from boot... I'd just go in and adjust the BIOS... 20 seconds... max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 If you can PM me the step by step of how to do it with a CD then that would be cool.Assume I have the stuff that would be on the 3.5 disk on a CD already, then what............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benyen Soljax Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 well what exactly are you booting from the floppy? usually people just change the bios to boot up windows install disk. to change the boot drive, you need to go into bios using whatever key they tell you to press, usually the delete key. a blue screen will come up with some options and menus and things. what youre looking for is the option where it specifies the primary boot device. its usually on one of the major menus like "system" or so. i havent been in my bios for a while so i forget the terminology. so when you find the primary boot device it will usually say "floppy", another indicator that you found the correct option. the floppy will also be referred to as "1.44" disk drive" sometimes so watch out. you simply change that option to CDROM and save and quit and voila. it should recognize when you have a CD inserted during boot and tell you to press any key to boot from disk. then you press any key. depending on what youre trying to do will determine what you need to do with the data from the floppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectorvictor Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 well what exactly are you booting from the floppy? usually people just change the bios to boot up windows install disk. to change the boot drive, you need to go into bios using whatever key they tell you to press, usually the delete key. a blue screen will come up with some options and menus and things. what youre looking for is the option where it specifies the primary boot device. its usually on one of the major menus like "system" or so. i havent been in my bios for a while so i forget the terminology. so when you find the primary boot device it will usually say "floppy", another indicator that you found the correct option. the floppy will also be referred to as "1.44" disk drive" sometimes so watch out. you simply change that option to CDROM and save and quit and voila. it should recognize when you have a CD inserted during boot and tell you to press any key to boot from disk. then you press any key. depending on what youre trying to do will determine what you need to do with the data from the floppy.Sorry I have to... Where's the "any" key:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benyen Soljax Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Sorry I have to... Where's the "any" key:lol:good job *pat pat*need me to pack your lunch tomorrow for school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB12Ss Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 If I remember correctly, to access the BIOS on an HP machine you hit F2 at the initial boot screen. Not sure about the newer ones, but the old HP's had like 5 main menu options... One of them should be "BOOT". Select that one by using the arrow keys, then you should be able to adjust the boot priority... Save and exit... You should be coolio at that point... Of course, only if you are using a bootable CD... That's a whole other conversation though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbret Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Bootable CD??Can i not just copy the stuff from a 3.5" disk (when you format & create a boot disk) onto the CD-ROM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB12Ss Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Any burning program that doesn't suck monkey balls should have an option for creating a bootable CD. Nero that comes with everything has it... It's just an option when you create a CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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