Re: Are Floppy Drives A Necessity On Laptops?


"Box134" <box134@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Case in point... I used a bootable program called Memtest to detect a
> stick of bad RAM in my desktop, Next time it could be my laptop. Memtest
> has an iso image for floppy, it's so tiny it'd be a shame to use a CD for
> it.
>
> And you needn't constrain yourself, an Inspiron around our house has a
> modular floppy drive. You plug in the floppy or the second battery, as you
> wish. I suppose not all laptops have this.
>
> As for USB devices, I'm not sure you can boot from them. Maybe newer BIOS
> allow this?
>

Provided the BIOS has support, you can boot from USB floppy drives. You can
also boot from USB CD drives and USB hard drives (provided they have
priority over the permanent devices). If the BIOS supports it, you can also
boot from ZIP disks* and Firewire devices.

* I refer to the internal ZIP drives, external are either USB, Firewire or
SCSI which are handled as such.


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