Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:03:04 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Recover files with long file names in DOS
Matt, I have been following this thread about booting from the USB port, and I just happened to receive a free USB flash drive in the mail yesterday. In the package was a disk with a bunch of drivers on it and a portion of the manual reads as follows: USB Flash Disk User's Manual Table of Contents Introduction System Requirements Functions I. Install II. Formatting II-1 When Formatting II-2 Do Formatting III. Setting Password III-1 Basic Password Function III-2 Setting Your Own Password III-3 Log In With Password III-4 Change Your Password Iv. Making Bootable Disk V. Remove Disk Safely IV. Making Bootable Disk This function makes the device a booting disk. If you don't have any bootable solution, for example no CD and no floppy disk, you can use this device to boot computer. This program runs only under Win98. This function can be enabled during formatting this device. If you mark "Make Bootable Disk" and click "Formatting" button, this utility program save booting files from Win98 operation system for booting up your computer into this device. This bootable disk can be used when you boot your computer in DOS operation system. Each motherboard has its own design of BIOS. "USB Flash Disk" can make your system boot up in the status set 1st boot up condition with 'USB Zip' in the BIOS booting menu. Also we recommend that it will be better to format again your device after using bootable disk. This re-formatting can make your device safer and longer usage. The "making bootable disk" was the thing that caught my eye. It is only for WIN98SE, and it requires your BIOS to have a setting for using the USB device as bootable, but I have drivers for 5 different versions of this flash drive (I have no idea what version I have, I am using WIN2000 and it automatically detects it and loads a Microsoft driver for it; I did not have to use the disk at all). The USB flash drive is a "no name" unit from China. It came with advertising on it from a company I work with. If these drivers are of interest to you, I could send them to on a CD (there is 19Meg of files on it). I don't know if they would work with any other flash drive or not. Dick Sullivan -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:05 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Recover files with long file names in DOS I plugged my Dazzle ZIO CF adapter with the Microdrive into the EPR USB port, but when I booted the L100 from it, I got these error messages: "If your BIOS does not support USB booting, please contact your system or motherboard manufacturers for a possible BIOS upgrade." The L100's minumal BIOS just may not support USB in DOS through the EPR. Matt ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
