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Thread ID: 53146	2005-01-08 20:13:00	Floppy Install Disk needed, but no A drive	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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312180	2005-01-08 21:26:00	As there is no floppy, so no assigned A drive, have you tried labelinhg the usb drive as A. May need to uninstall and reinstall usb, or install it for a second time on a differnt port as A. Thanks bsssst. :) This sounds good. How :confused: do I do this - assign the USB drive as the A drive?	Strommer (42)
312181	2005-01-08 21:28:00	Look in the BIOS, and see if theres an option that says u can boot from a USB device (or can act as a floppy). Or a mass storage device. If so, enable it, save settings, then reboot. Does the USB flash drive actually get detected?? Appear in device manager? If so, what is it appearing as? And what OS is this??	Speedy Gonzales (78)
312182	2005-01-08 21:32:00	Thanks bsssst. :) This sounds good. How :confused: do I do this - assign the USB drive as the A drive? My comp, right click, manage, disk managment. or if reinstall/new install (USB) should give you an option to assign drive letter.	bsssst (1725)
312183	2005-01-08 21:43:00	Speedy - Sorry, forgot to say that the OS is WinXP Home.	Strommer (42)
312184	2005-01-08 21:46:00	My comp, right click, manage, disk managment. or if reinstall/new install (USB) should give you an option to assign drive letter. OK bsssst, this seems the way to go. Speedy's suggestion of going into the Bios and rebooting with the USB sounds too :illogical problematical. I'll give it a try later today , after I see if anything else comes up on this thread. :D	Strommer (42)
312185	2005-01-09 01:39:00	When all else fails, read the documentation ... :d There is a command SUBST which was introduced with W95 (to be a better ASSIGN (from DOS2 on). If causes the system to use a path as a device. :D I haven't got XP, but "subst XP" to Google gets the MS document as the first link. Just putting the floppy's files into the directory you make should. Another little trick which might be needed is to note the LABEL of the floppy. Sometimes people are sneaky and look at that to make sure it's the real legal floppy. :D Use the LABEL command to label the pseudo disk after you have done the SUBST command if that's the case. It will either work, or not. There are some commands you can't use on a SUBSTed drive, like format, scandisk ... You still have to get the files off the floppy. :D You still have to	Graham L (2)
312186	2005-01-09 10:26:00	Bssssst, Graham, et. al., I successfully assigned the USB drive as "A", and all is well. Actually, the support person in Auckland was not on holiday and responded to my email. Duh.... :p all I had to do was to insert the two __.dat files into the program 'manually' (via Programs on C drive). :D Anyway, the program is A-OK, pun intended. :cool: Thanks to all who posted. I have learned somthing once again on good old PF1.	Strommer (42)
312187	2005-01-09 13:14:00	Yup, cool . My advice would have been to save the floppy to a . IMA file, and mount it as A: . No doubt it would have worked, but hey - you did it without a problem :)	george12 (7)
312188	2005-01-09 19:27:00	Yup, cool . My advice would have been to save the floppy to a . IMA file, and mount it as A: . No doubt it would have worked, but hey - you did it without a problem :) OK, I am curious, George . What is an . IMA file (as compared to . DAT, of which I know next to nothing)?	Strommer (42)
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