![]() ![]() I've tried creating a single partition on a USB stick of 1.44MB and formatting as FAT12 but Win XP setup wouldn't recognise this. If the BIOS believes it's a USB floppy drive, then Win XP setup should think there's a floppy disk attached and all I need to do is drop the AHCI drivers onto a USB stick!Īnyone know if anything like that is possible? Is there a way to reconfigure a USB stick so that it appears to the system as a USB floppy drive? With laptops these days, many have an option in the boot order of the BIOS to boot from a USB floppy drive and that got me thinking. ![]() I realise I could put the drive in IDE compatibility mode in the BIOS but I prefer to try and run with AHCI if possible. Every so often I need to install Win XP on a machine that has a SATA drive and have to go through the whole mess of finding a floppy drive for the AHCI drivers and hitting F6 during setup, or slipstreaming them onto the Windows XP installation media. ![]()
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