Hi Joseph,
I cannot speak to freedos itself, I run MS Dos 7.1 exclusively on my p3
computer.
Still, when I wish to use my external USB drive, it serves as my backup
method, indeed I uncomment the dos USB driver I run in my config.sys
file, turn of my machine, attach the drive, and power it on again.
I prefer doing a cold boot, rather than a warm boot.
The os then recognizes the USB drive as the next drive letter.
For example, as I have two drives each split in half my USB drive begins
as drive g.
If this is confusing, just ask.
best,
Karen
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021, joseph turco wrote:
hello all,
i'm looking at installing freeDOS on an older (XP era) computer. I'm sorry
for my ignorance, but i'm trying to figure out usb support. I read
somewhere that USB drives are not read by the OS while it's already booted,
but WILL read USB drives if it's inserted upon boot. Is this correct? Many
thanks ahead of time. I plan to get a floppy drive for the computer (found
one for sale for 10 bucks) so that I won't rely on USB drives, but I need
it to get QBASIC on the system.
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