Is it possible to force laptop to boot from external floppy drive?

[jakobkraft]

Am trying to flash firmware for laptop dvd-rom using a MS-startup floppy, but despite changing BIOS boot settings, it still won't boot from external floppy drive.

Is there a way to force it to boot from external floppy? Thanks in advance...!

 

[Mikey]

I dont believe you can. It depends on the bios really. If it has support for booting a floppy via usb, you're in luck. otherwise, you gotta boot via an internal floppy drive.

 

[stu1811]

I do it all the time on IBM laptops. Try hitting F12 or whatever ur bootmenu key is. Hopefully the floppy will show up.

 

[corkyg]

Only if your laptop BIOS supports USB boot. That's the only way to connect an external floppy today.