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From: "Jim McQueeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: M/Bs
I whole-heartily agree about FDD's being dead!
I bought a new laptop, two years ago, that came with a USB FDD. The FDD
is still in the sealed plastic bag it came in; It's never been used...
My workaround for computers that do not have a floppy drive is --
You really thought I would go to the trouble of hooking up a floppy drive
using a data cable and then having to go into Setup and configure the BIOS
to see it etc. etc. ??
No. I have a USB floppy drive and all I have to do is plug it in and I can
boot to the floppy drive or access the floppy drive to read and/or write.
Now don't ask me why some computers simply do not want to boot to certain
bootable CD's that other computers will boot to. I do not have to take time
to figure all that out when I have a USB floppy drive and the same data I
need on a bootable floppy disk.
For speed and simplicity, where the going is easy I prefer to boot to a
bootable CD than a bootable floppy disk. Having and using aces in the hole
is a quick way to keep things moving. It is the hard drive manufacturer's
bootable hard drive utility CD's that certain computers often do not boot to
and I use a floppy. Those same computers boot easily to the Windows Home OEM
CD. So it is not that the computer refuses to boot to all bootable CD's.
Chuck
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