The solution is much more weird than any such modification actually.īut this time around, I won’t dive into the technical details up front, but simply give you the solution first. My original attempts to modify the Windows CD itself were all unsuccessful, and today I believe that it is hardly possible to just talk setup into accepting USB pendrives as floppies, unless your systems BIOS can actively mask the pendrive as such. And yesterday, I finally found the solution. What I always wanted to do was to find a way to just use some USB pendrive for this, like it’s possible with newer Windows systems. While adding non-supported USB floppies to any installation disc is possible when using (see farther below), sometimes you may not want to build your own image or maybe you don’t have any floppies available, USB included. This is a problem I’ve wanted to solve for quite some time now: How to install older Windows on systems with an AHCI SATA or maybe SCSI or SAS controller, when there is no floppy drive and Windows setup won’t recognize any hard drive? Usually, you’ll have to press F6 during the early setup sequence, and then provide the drivers with either a real floppy, or a USB floppy drive that’s on the hardware compatibility list (not all USB floppies work).
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