Saellite 300CDS: Broken floppy drive

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  Will there be another Windows coming out soon with the floppy drives and DVD players.

  Hello

  Disks: I don't think so. I always keep 25 floppy disks for Windows 95, should be a few thousand disks for Windows 10. Very, very, very expensive to store files and transport.

  Of DVD: would soon come out, new machines will have 10 Windows (who knows) pre-installed or downloaded. You can always find Windows 10 DVD in some countries where users will still have to use dial-up Modem.

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• PROTECTED P4000 - update the BIOS without a floppy drive

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  I have a P4000 protégé who, I believe, was initially purchased without floppy drive. Now that I'm the Win XP operating system upgrade I need to install more memory, and like many other forum members point out it will not work without a BIOS update.

  However the BIOS available on the site is for the installation of Tranditional only and requires a floppy drive (which I did not). Is it possible to obtain a version that runs under Windows, or find another way to start the traditional installation? The site seems to suggest that the installation of Windows is favored, but the software is not provided.

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  Hello Sir

  As much as I know upgrade memory is not dependent on the latest version of the BIOS, and if you use compatible module there are not any problem. Anyway, I'm not 100% sure but I think you can do the BIOS update using the SD card.

  If you have the time and opportunities please try it and let us know if it works.

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• Portege P3480CT does not support the CD and floppy drive

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  as far I know the Portege has it a USB floppy and a map of PC CD-Rom.

  Have you checked the Bios of your laptop, especially here the boot priority settings?

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• Satellite A500-17 x - recovery of Bios without a floppy drive

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  I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite A500-TX.

  My BIOS has been updated via the windows application, but the laptop has hung up and restarted (duh!). Now quite understandable, the laptop starts and doesn't show yet anything on the screen when powered on (I guess that the bios is damaged).

  I found several ways to reflash the bios by using a floppy drive, but the problem is that the laptop is not equipped with a floppy drive.

  Can anyone recommend sort reflash the bios with the floppy drive? Maybe by putting in the shape of the USB as a floppy drive and start? I tried to use the usb reflash via the method of phoenix

  .. .but does not.

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  > My BIOS has been updated via the windows application, but the laptop has hung up and restarted (duh!).
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  Even after C - MOS set up, system boot from HDD, no floppy drive, or a CD-ROM.

  Is there a specific setting to set these controls in the model of Satellite A-105?

  Hello

  Do you mean an external floppy drive and external drive CD-ROM or one which is integrated?

  If you want to boot from the internal CD-rom drive if you have 3 possibilities.

  1. change the boot order in the BIOS to CD player
  2. by pressing the C key immediately after starting the laptop
  3. by pressing the F12 key immediately after your laptop to go and choose the CD drive

  I think you should also be sure that you want to boot from the bootable CD.
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  Hello

  Battery CMOS is needed to keep the BIOS settings.
  It seems that the CMOS battery is empty if you need set the date and time always in the BIOS settings. But the CMOS battery has nothing to do with the floppy drive.

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  I need help to make a USB bootable floppy drive.
  My laptop 3480CT has not the traditional floppy drive instead, it uses a USB floppy drive and the bios has an option to boot from USB FDD.

  I would like to use a USB key to start (a Lexar Jumpdrive 32 MB 05dch 0080 h and GTX 1 GB 1516 h pid pid 8628 h), instead of the floppy. I want to load the boot XP on floppies, so I run recovery programs using chkdsk.

  I tried the usual suspects, the bootloader makebootfat and mkbt20 HP.
  I tried the demo version of the commercial product Flashboot.
  I photographed a floppy back 5.0 system on the USB key using the I-Setup demo.
  All failed including the specific option in the makebootfat images for FDD option and 3 different options of Flashboot.

  I ran
  http://Enos.itcollege.EE/~mkalme/Pahn/tut/tut.html

  Using Hexplorer ICY, I was able to confirm that the DOS5.0 on the boot sector pendrive is identical to the diskette.
  I could start in Dos5.0 from a floppy disk with drivers USB Panasonic and confirm that my Lexar was a system of 1.44 MB disk and command.com displayed in the directory. The GXT is not recognized by the Panasonic, nor BACK USB drivers to Duse 4.4 4.9. Another worrying indicator, it is my computer XP did not see all of the files on the pendrives, not command.com, or two hidden files (view all the hidden files option).

  I learned that Transcend a specific option that creates a bootable 1.44 mb floppy
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  Here is what I have gathered, corrections and suggestions are welcome.

  Interface USB the USB protocol specifications

  bInterfaceSubClass field specifies the Protocol
  01 order reduced block (RBC) a flash device
  UFI 04 a floppy drive floppy drive
  05 FDD SFF-8070i SFF-8070i command blocks however, funding may be in a different subclass for example RBC

  bInterfaceProtocol field specifies the transport protocol
  00 control/Bulk/Interrupt (CBI) with break of completion for FFD only
  01 CBI without interruption of completion for the FDD only
  transport in bulk only 50 h, including priming

  I don't know if the USB controller must imitate the FDD Protocol.

  Any ideas?

  Hello

  You cannot boot from the USB key.
  The BIOS of the laptop does not support something like that.
  Laptop factory supports and use different BIOS versions. As far as I know on this laptop Toshiba BIOS was installed.

  To my knowledge this BIOS does not support booting from the USB key, but only the HDD, ODD, LAN or USB - FDD.
  If you want to boot from USB FDD, you can create a bootable FDD floppy.
  Windows operating system creates the boot floppy drive when you right click on the connected floppy drive and select format. Then simply choose the option create MS-DOS startup disk start.

• Re-installation of 98. floppy drive and the CD Player do not work

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  I loaded 98 in our 3410 CT. 98 is installed, but the system has not picked up on our floppy (usb) and our cd. I know I have to get the drivers here, but how? The cd will not work because it has no driver present as is the case for the floppy drive. The boring bit, is that I have the driver on a separate disk. Any body has any suggestions.
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  [Edited by: admin on 26 June 05 20:52]

  Hello

  I'm not 100% sure here, but I think you can resolve your situation by enabling legacy mode USB FDD in BIOS (if not already done), and then boot from a drive to floppy BACK/Win9X and then copy the drivers to the HARD disk.

  Try this:

  -Turn on your 3480 but look out for the Toshiba logo!
  -When you see the logo very quickly press the ESC key several times (normally just 1 time will do, but that's if you know just WHEN to press it).
  -You will receive a message saying PRESS F1 key... Do this.
  -You are now in the BIOS. Look for a setting that says something like "Legacy USB FDD mode". Set it to "Enabled".
  -Also look around to make sure that the boot priority is set to FDD as first boot-unit.
  -Save the settings by pressing END, then answer Yes to the question "are you '.
  -To get a bootable BACK / Win9X floppy. Insert into the disk drive and start the machine from him.
  -Now manually copy the floppy drivers (unzip it first!) the floppy drive in a temporary directory on the HARD drive.
  -Copy the drivers (2 versions exist) and the driver on the CD while you're there.
  -Reboot, start Windows and enter the Devicemanager to update the missing drivers from the temp directory.

  TADA!

  Good luck!

  Tom

• Qosmio G30: How to add the driver RAID without floppy drive?

  I'll put win xp tomorrow, as far as I can remember I will be asked to insert a floppy with additional RAID/SCSI drivers - I guess I need some drivers for XP see my RAID stripe.

  I was able to download 'raid-drv-qog20-xp - 1380.zip', but I'm afraid to look if my laptop has a floppy drive... How can I add the driver did not have a floppy drive?

  Hello

  Maybe a stupid comment, but if you can buy Qosmio G30 I presume that you can also get a used floppy disk. I did this a few times with Vista and Qosmio G30 and it works well.

  Check eBay. You will get the drive used for a few euros. Otherway tries to create CDs and if the RAID drive must travel to ODD, I didn't try because I have a FDD, but you can test it on your Qosmio.

• I can start my F30 since an external floppy drive?

  I use Norton Ghost to clone a copy of my hard drive on my PC for disaster recovery and requires a m/c boot hard disk when I use Ghost. I want to do the same thing on my F30 but have no idea if I can configure the F30 to boot from an external floppy drive. If possible can someone please tell me how to change the boot sequence, as I have not any experience based laptops. Thank you very much.

  Hello

  I use Norton Ghost 2003, and I am very satisfied. It works under windows and you can create the image file on the second partition or even create DVDs of recovery immediately without using floppy. I can recommend it just for you.

  Back to your question: with your Qosmio model, you can use the floppy with follow-up part number PA3109U-3FDD drive. If I remember correctly, you can press the U button just after switching on the unit and the unit should start using floppy drive as first boot device.

• External USB floppy drive no longer works

  I have a model #: p6710f computer from HP running Windows 7 desktop.

  I myself bought an external Bytecc USB Portable diskette (Floppy) disk. Although it did not work initially, it began to work a week later after some updates on my computer running. The work of at least a year since then diskette drive.

  Now the last month, the floppy drive does not show in the list where you can find the C drive or the D drive. You can hear the floppy drive respond when it is first plugged in, but it does not show on the screen which you access.

  Is there anyone who is able to understand why the floppy USB drive won't work with my computer? What should I do to solve the problem?

  Thank you for your response. Uninstalling the driver, restart the computer, and then reinstall the process... I had already tried this a few days ago. Although the computer recognizes drive as new hardware and load the driver, I was not yet able to access the disk. But here's the strange thing...

  My office is where I got this problem. Yesterday, I connect the floppy drive for my laptop for the first time. The laptop recognized as new hardware and load the driver. I was able to use the floppy drive on the laptop. Out of curiosity, I disconnect the floppy (USB connection) of the laptop drive and reconnect to the desktop computer. The Office has recognized as new hardware and load the driver. I am now able to use the floppy drive on the desktop. Weird that it is... my question to get the floppy drive on the Office to work is now resolved.

• Solution: The USB floppy drive is not recognized during installation of XP of RAID

  Hello

  This Solution is for notebooks Qosmio with RAID driver during (manual installation of windows)

  I found the Solution to this problem,

  [When you install Microsoft Windows XP by using a floppy drive USB on a player who]
  requires a driver during the installation, the USB floppy drive is not recognized in all
  installation. When Windows XP searches the driver of the second time, he will not be able to see
  the floppy USB drive drive and prompts the user for the driver (RAID) again.
  The installation will never reach this point. ]

  Solution:

  This is a limitation of Microsoft, the Floppy Drive are do not appear in the file Windows 'txtsetup.sif.

  Simply change the floppy drive in another brand and avoid Usb 2.0 external Usb floppy plus old 1 Try
  Also note the back of drive sometimes they write (no bootable) avoid this also

  I personally Test this and it does not work it is "IBM Portable floppy drive" drive silver
  P/N 27L 4226, FRU P/N 05K 9283 TEAC CORPORATION MODEL NO. FD-05PUB

  The following USB floppy drives are listed in the file "txtsetup.sif" and are supported:

  Device ID = VID: 057B and PID: 0000 for external floppy USB SONY drive, Sony 09K 9835 part number

  Device ID = VID: 0644 and PID: 0000 for floppy drive to the external USB, TEAC, IBM replacement part number (FRU) 13N6752

  USB\VID_03EE & PID_6901; Mitsumi USB floppy drive

  USB\VID_057B & PID_0000; Floppy drive USB YEData, Sony part number 09K 9835

  USB\VID_0644 & PID_0000; Floppy drive USB TEAC 27L 4226, FRU 05K 9283 IBM option part number

  The following USB floppy drives are not listed in the txtsetup.sif file and are not supported:

  USB\VID_03F0 & PID_2001; HP
  USB\VID_054C & PID_002C; Sony
  USB\VID_057B & PID_0001; YEData
  USB\VID_0409 & PID_0040; NEC
  USB\VID_0424 & PID_0FDC; SMSC

  If you want manual of Installation of Windows Xp Media Center Edition 2005
  then check out my discussion here

  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16498

  Thank you for the very interesting topic.
  I think that it s an enemy of information all of you who have the same problem.

  Thanks ;)

• External USB floppy drive for Satellite Pro M70

  I just bought a Satellite Pro M70 Centrino Mobile 750 to replace my Satellite 5105 - S702, which exposes the same type of problems of corruption/crash video display described elsewhere in these forums.

  I need an external floppy drive, and the site of the Toshiba shop specifies an external USB Floppy Drive Ref. PA3109E-3FDD.

  However, I have an external drive USB Floppy, Réf. PA3109U-1FDD, I bought for the satellite 5105-S702 about 4 years ago.

  5105-S702 has USB 1.1 ports and satellite Pro M70 has USB2 ports.

  Issues related to the:

  PA3109U-1FDD will work with the satellite Pro M70?

  There are likely to be problems of compatibility, driver issues or any probability/possibility of damage to the Sat ProM70?

  Would appreciate any advice.

  Thank you

  AlanCB

  Hi Alan

  I really don? t know why you ask if the floppy drive will not work. Why you don? t he try? As far as I know, it should work and you should not buy a new one.

  Just for info: a few months ago, I saw the Toshiba FDD drives with part number PX? And these drives are not bootable but on the lower side, there is a label with this information.

  Anyway, you can use your other more ancient. According to the specification tested for MS M70 is FDD Drive Kit PA3109U-1FDD (your one).

  Good luck

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  In the system properties Device Manager I want to change the settings of the floppydiskdrive (FDD). This is currently the station A:.
  I plugged in an external floppy drive and want this device as A: station.

  How can I change the current drive letter assignment?
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  Steef

  Hello Steef

  As far as I know, it cannot be changed. Each internal floppy drive has A drive letter. Each external device becomes first available letter after later used in Windows Explorer in my computer.

  Good bye