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How to make my Dell Support drive b:\ ...bios update ?
I have installed an additional floppy drive, and a new cable for both floppy drives since dell was kind enough to include a defective cable (only supporting one drive). I even had to aquire an extra power-plug (connector) to power the drive since there was no extra such plug included inside the computer.
Does anyone know how to upchuck the bios of a dell dimension 8200 , 2002 model, so that it will support drive b:\, because it will not appear in any windows versions, and it will not light up a second during booting, like the other one (a:\) does.
I'm getting real tired of all the things the dell motherboard and bios does not seem to support, but this... THIS.. takes the cake...
The thing is; when the bios does not support more than one floppy drive, b:\ that is normally assigned to this "secondary" floppy drive, will not work in any windows/dos/whatever. Maby BSD systems may go around the bios, but I would like my second floppy drive to work with windows.
Message Edited by eltwerk on 12-08-2002 11:27 AM
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Posted December 8th, 2002 15:00
What difference does the drive letter make? It shouldn't matter if it's drive F, G, H, Z, etc, unless you are trying to do something that the hardware of software won't do.
With XP, you are no longer in a DOS based graphical operating system and the rules have changed.
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Posted December 8th, 2002 17:00
Have you gone into BIOS setup (F2 during initial boot screen) to see whether you can change settings on the floppy drives? The secondary may be set to disable; if so, you should be able to change it. If you have already tried that to no avail, then I guess you are stuck, unless you want to try upgrading to the Intel version of the BIOS for your motherboard. But, I am not at all certain that that would work if the proprietary idiocy that causes the problem is motherboard based rather than BIOS based.393
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Posted December 9th, 2002 03:00
Newer dell systems do not support a 2nd floppy drive. There is no bios flash to fix that. The reason? floppies are a dead technology. you can configure most workstations or laptop without one. You can get 128 MbUSB pen drives that hold more data than 100 floppies for about 50 bucks that are reusable forever. floppies wear out. Newest zip drives have a capacity of 750 Mb. allmost every sys shipping has a cd burner over 600 floppies worth of info. dvd +rw under $200 bucks now their disks hold 4.7 Gb. and all can be made bootable. bios flashes on the new systems are done without a floppy. all you do is dload the file run the program and reboot automatically flashes the bios. You probably will not even see floppies within 2 years. And if you do you will pay for them dearly. Why support a technology that is over 10 yrs old. In the computer world any technology that old shoulda been phased out 8 yrs ago.
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Posted December 9th, 2002 04:00
Re: that cheap usb storage ? where can I find it ?
I live in Norway right now, and I would like such an usb storage of small size, is there a web-site that can ship this thing to norway, what excactly is it called ? usb pen or more like a key ?
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Posted December 9th, 2002 05:00
there are multiple sellers on ebay that will ship worldwide heres the first one I found http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2076693656 just do a search for usb pen drive
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Posted December 8th, 2002 15:00