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Booting without a floppy drive

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jgbishop

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I'd like to install and run the Maxtor Powermax software (for checking one of my hard drives), but I do not have a floppy drive in my system (I took it out when I installed all my new components).

How can I utilize software that thinks it should be booted from a floppy? Can I put it on a USB flash drive and boot using that? Or maybe on a CD? It seems a waste to burn a CD for a < 1MB program...
 
I say try the pen drive if you know that your motherboard will boot from the usb. It would be just like a cd, gotta write yea a boot.ini file.
 
It seems a waste to burn a CD for a < 1MB program...
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I'd try the USB drive first but if that doesn't work, then yeah it's a waste to burn a CD for < 1MB program, but blanks are ridiculously cheap these days! Burn something else on the CD that you feel like backing up to make yourself feel better about it. 😉
 
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