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Old 08-27-2005, 11:41 PM
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Floppy not working
I have a floppy drive in my comp that i wanna use to upgrade my BIOS but it wont work! when i boot my computer up it gives me a an error message saying something about CRC error or something. it wont even work in windows! can anyone help? also can i boot from a USB Floppy Drive?
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Old 08-28-2005, 12:48 PM
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As far as I know, you cannot boot from an external drive. Does the regular drive work in another computer, or do you have an extra internal drive on hand? What exactly does the error say?
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