schmiew1 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) Hi AllI have a USB bootable pen drive..,. is there a way I can make this the A: drive instead of the C: drive when used as a bootup device ?CheersSteveC Edited May 21, 2007 by schmiew1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kof94 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Probably not since A: and B: are usually reserved for floppy drives. If you are booting to a PE you could probably hard code it to either of these though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike69 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 it depends if the bios detects the usb pen as a usb fdd (a:) or usb hdd (c:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kof94 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) I can't say I've ever seen a usb key detected as a fdd, only 'removable storage'/hdd. Saying that, there's no reason why it couldn't be, so it's a valid point. Edited May 21, 2007 by kof94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrayal Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Curiously, I have seen this a couple of times - a USB being recognised partially as a floppy. The driver for the rest of the stick was stored on the 'floppy' portion of the USB, I assume to ensure compatibility with all computers. That said, it was a while ago, and I never looked into it -sorry :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 On some motherboards, capable to boot to "super-floppy" type of device it is possible.You need to format the key WITHOUT a MBR.This way you would of course loose the capacity to boot from motherboards that NEED "HDD" formatting (with MBR).The only possible exception is the "special" MBR/bootsetor that makebootfat has, check here for some details:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...13784&st=44http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...0806&st=134If the problem is just drive lettering, depending on WHICH OS you are going to boot from the stick there might be other solutions.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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