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Creating a Bootdisk for a usb drive without a floppy drive

by Kiser71 Aug 17, 2005 9:40AM PDT

Does anyone know how to create a boot disk without having a floppy drive? My laptop lacks a floppy drive and I am attempting to make my flash drive bootable. I am using the supplied software that comes with the 1 gig Corsair Voyager. It requires that I define a folder that has a floppy image, but after I've downloaded a Win 98 image and try to run it, the 98 image prompts me to insert a floppy, which I don't have, and when I try to select the folder containing the 98 image with the supplied Corsair utility it won't recognize it as a bootable source.

Any suggestions?

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Creating a Bootdisk for a usb drive without a floppy

by MrLatin Sep 3, 2005 3:20AM PDT

Do a search in google for - bootable flash drives - there are quite a few suggestions and utilities ...
but before you bother... make sure your motherboard supports booting from usb ... that will be an option in your BIOS setup ... the same place you set it to check for a CD before your A drive or hard drive ... Hope this helps

MrLatin