Virtual Floppy Drive programs?

[Peegee]

can't your bios let you use an USB mass storage device as a 'floppy'? Or maybe there is a way to make the BIOS make the OS think the SATA device is a PATA device?

I see a lot of sata -> pata suggestions online but the bios version on this pc doesn't allow it.

I think I will spring for a usb diskette drive tonight if worse comes to worse

update: I'm giving this a try. Basically use knoppix to copy back any bad files that might be on the laptop hard drive.

Need to get windows to run scandisk though. Hopefully can do this via knoppix' command line.


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Can't run scandisk, but thinking about copying windows dlls over to laptop drive (this would be so much easier if it were a sata drive for a pc). I booted up knoppix but the hard disk [sda1] isn't letting me write to it. I tried to toggle that option but nothing happens.

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Got it to work (had to unplug and replug in my usb drive a few times, and test internal copying within the hard drive to get it to work). Copying windows dlls now

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lol -- A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer - Error code: 0x80070002

Tried a few fixes -- nothing seems to work.

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Still on the same problem, more or less. Now there's no error msg but windows doesn't log on just as before.

The computer has an oem partition I cannot access. Shouldn't there typically be a recovery console button during post? None comes up.

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Finally installed windows and can log in! Now to see if I can set the oem to allow the 'system recovery' to work (would be easier to do than to reinstall drivers)

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