Windows boot without floppy

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By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. Accept Learn more…. SIF shown with an invalid non-floppy device here, but it works exactly like that with any unsupported real USB floppy drive.

But with that, you can now use any previously unsupported USB floppy drive for F6 driver installations. That may be especially true if you have to deal with lots of different machines with different SATA AHCI driver requirements or other storage controllers.

Building new ISOs using nLite over and over again can be time consuming after all. All rights reserved. I am re-building another machine with XP bit on it, and I have gone through the painstaking task of installing XP. I have done this several times and — as you know — the Windows XP bit CD install disc can take over an hour to install. Instead of the install CD and optical drive, is it possible to install XP from another hard drive?

If all the files on the install CD were copied across to a HD and the then run setup. Also, Could a USB drive containing all the install files be used some way like this? If it was done via USB 3 with its drivers, it would cut down the time dramatically. I know this works for USB 2. As you mention in the USB 3. A virtual machine with a physical USB drive piped through to it should be good enough for a quick test I guess. Searching, I found a number of tricks to speed things up.

Enter taskmgr, Processeses and right click setup. This cut down the time to approximately 25 minutes to get XP bit up and running. EXE and setup XP bit to another partition.

It did work but was problematic and I am still working on it. I am not too sure if it cut the time less than 25 minutes. I need to get away from floppy drives. This is not working, tried 2 different computers. It starts from pendrive, loads the f6-images, ask to boot from CD, yes, windows-setups starts, but ALWAYS when setup starts to load files after the F6-question both machines immediately restart!

I tried different usb-ports, pendrives, changed the optical drives, RAM, but it is always failing. I have Windows Pro on a thumb drive, how would I go about using a secondary thumb drive to boot up the necessary drivers to install Windows ?

So you might want to do that instead. If you still wish to insist on an F6 solution with two USB pen drives, please read on! One idea to solve this is to replace the BCDL boot loader with yet another syslinux one. That one would be booted by a corresponding boot track loading ldlinux. Unpack that.

On Linux, check which device node the drive has e. The command shown above will allow you to identify your USB disk, but the disk id at the end is decimal, not hexadecimal.

On top of that, it might be a negative number Windows wrongly interprets larger numbers as signed integers instead of unsigned ones.

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