Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-09 Thread Pierre LaMontagne
From: bbla...@home.nl > Partition & format it as FAT32 with Windows tools like RUFUS or > RMprepUSB. > Then boot from this bootable USB Flash Drive. That's about > all the legacy > emulation a BIOS will do. Booting from harddisk/floppy > then trying to get > access to USB Flash Drives is troubl

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Rugxulo schreef op 8-5-2013 23:16: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Pierre LaMontagne > wrote: >> >> You're right though, I have 3 modern PCs with Win 7 on them, none of which >> have a floppy drive controller. Something like this still has some legacy controllers/connectors/headers: h

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > You're right though, I have 3 modern PCs with Win 7 on them, none of which > have a floppy drive controller. Almost none of them have it pre-installed these days. I bought a Sony USB-hosted floppy drive, and it works (in DOS), but

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Evans
Uhci is another fancy way to say USB controller On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > From: rugx...@gmail.com > > > Since you already mentioned "very old floppies", does this mean some > > of your machines don't have (the appropriately-sized) floppy drives? > > Yes, exactly.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Pierre LaMontagne
From: rugx...@gmail.com > Since you already mentioned "very old floppies", does this mean some> of your > machines don't have (the appropriately-sized) floppy drives? Yes, exactly. I didn't elaborate earlier, but that is the case. By floppies, I'm referring to the 3.5" 1.44mb ones although, I