Hi all,

I have a question.
Some older motherboards do not support USB harddisks.
But a lot of them recognice a USB device formattet as Superfloppy.

So my question is: Has anybody sucessfull mount a USB device as Superfloppy with FAT32
and a size larger than 2 GByte?

Nice to hear from you
Dietmar

I have a 40GB 2.5" USB drive formatted that way.

Works for me.

Hi stormal,

can you please describe it,
how you did it?

Do you use linux or the DD tool for Windows?

Glad to hear that,
Dietmar

I used PartitionMagic.

But you should also be able to use the FreeDos Project's latest FDISK.EXE & FORMAT.EXE on a boot floppy.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Even Windows Me could be utilized.

I believe that up to 137GB can be supported.

Hi all,

I mean whether it is possible to use


mkdosfs -F32 -I /dev/sda


to format USB bootdevice complete as superfloppy.


Nice to hear from you
Dietmar

Hi all,

yes it is possible and XP recognices this drive without any partitionstable.

But it cant boot from, even not with a normal floppy, because there is no normal arcpath.

Nice to hear fro you
Dietmar

Dietmar,
for the superfloppy problem, you can have a look at makebootfat "special" MBR, see my post here:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=13784&st=44

But the problem about the ARCPATH remains.

What if one uses, as BartPE does, the SETUPLDR renamed as NTLDR ?

As far as I get it, SETUPLDR just boots from the current drive, disregarding the BOOT.INI and its ARCPATHS.

jaclaz