Booting from a pen drive

[JCB]

I recently removed my floppy drive from my comp as I no longer use it. I plan on reinstalling windows XP soon and have 2 HD's in a raid 0 config. When you boot from the cd during windows XP installation it asks you for drivers if you plan on using a raid config. It looks to the floppy drive for the drivers. I was wondering if there were any way you could install these drivers from a usb pen drive so I wont have to plug my floppy back in. Is this at all possible?
Thanks in advance!

[mrmister1]

I may be possible if your motherboard supports USB before it boots to Windows. You got to check to make sure that it des before you try.

[JCB]

I have checked and my mobo does support booting from a USB pen drive. I dont think that will help me with my situation though. The title of this thread is kind of misleading, Im not actually booting from the drive. Im not sure what I should have titled it

[glc]

It will only work if the pen drive is recognized as the "A" drive.

I'd open the PC up and temporarily reinstall the floppy drive - you don't have to stick it in the rack, just prop it up somehow and connect the cables - and re-enable the floppy in the bios.

[ogrerocks]

I had to do the same thing for a friends PC. Just goes to show that you should still have a floppy drive.

[JCB]

Originally Posted by glc It will only work if the pen drive is recognized as the "A" drive. I'd open the PC up and temporarily reinstall the floppy drive - you don't have to stick it in the rack, just prop it up somehow and connect the cables - and re-enable the floppy in the bios.

Is it even possible to have the pen drive recognized as the "A" drive?

Originally Posted by ogrerocks I had to do the same thing for a friends PC. Just goes to show that you should still have a floppy drive.

I personally recomend that people keep their floppys until the time comes when the are COMPLETLEY no longer needed. I have switched over to SATA HD's so my cable clutter is at a minimum and pulled out the floppy mainly for this reason.