Hard drive copyer without fdd

[Samstoned]

everthing I read about needs a floppy drive to make a boot disc for cd-rom
what about no FDD
all the subjects that I have read about
show how to make boot cd-rom
but you still need a FDD
I need to put my main OS on a scsi drive
from ata.

 

[RealBlackStuff]

For a small investment (about €12.-/£8.-/$15.-) you can buy yourself that floppy-drive. End of misery.

 

[Samstoned]

I have no room in machine for drive
I kinda have about 5 spare floppy drives hang'n around
thanks.but thats no real answer
thought I could get intelligent answer at this forum.
or maybe I was to vague
I want to find a program that does NOT NEED
to use a floppy drive in the process of making a boot cd

 

[MrGaribaldi]

There are several options...

1. Buy a USB FDD... I've been thinking about doing this myself, since I too has no dfd atm...

2. Download a linux distro cd-image, and burn that. Most of these are bootable, and give you access to quite powerful tools.

3. Borrow a windows cd from a friend. (This is perfectly legal as long as you remember to switch to your own non-bootable cd before installing. ) W98 is a good choice for this

4. Use this description to create a bootable cd-rom. (Note, I haven't tried it myself, but it didn't mention any req for a FDD, so...)

Hope this helps

 

[Nodsu]

1: you can use a virtual floppy drive to make your bootable CD with appropriate drivers and programs.

2: You can use some Linux based bootable CD like Knoppix.

3: You could just reinstall your main OS.

And look at my sig if you need to see some intellectual stuff

 

[poertner_1274]

Why not just remove something from your computer and put a floppy drive in for the time being until you get everything sorted out. That seems like the easiest solution.

 

[Rick]

Drive Image uses a bootable CD, without the muss and fuss of floppy disks.

Not sure exactly what you want though...

 

[Samstoned]

follow up
talked with sysmatic tech says they are
trying to get company to write in new code to allow for writing to cd iso image
bart has a version of windows PE
that may due the trick
have not tryed getting to many calls on lost passwords
If anyone knows where I can dwnld a version of windows PE
all my thanks
L. Grumpy1




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