Re: Running Utilities that require Floppy Drives on Laptops

Put your memory stick in the usb slot and it will show as e:???. right click
on "My Comupter" and choose "Manage". Click on "Disk Managment" and right
click your mem stick choose "change drive letters and paths" set letter as
A:.

Reboot and your mem stick is now a:

Dan

"Snake Eyes" <youngbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AnVGe.199524$x96.95088@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ATTN: Gurus....
>
> I have a laptop with NO floppy drive. Most of the backup and drive clone
> utilities require a floppy boot disk.
>
> Bootable CD ROM processes have been around for years, but the developers
> of Disaster Recovery, Backup and Cloning software still insist on bootable
> floppies???
>
> There is a utility that will boot off of a CD ROM and then allow you to
> run your floppy utilites, kind of faking the software out.
>
> I have tried mapping my A Drive to my 512 MB memory stick, but no luck.
>
> I know I can get a just buy a USB floppy, but it just erks me, because
> this is the only time I would use it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Snake Eyes
>


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