What is the best way to install Windows on a system without a Floppy drive, when RAID drivers are required for the installation? I'm specifically trying to get Windows 2003r2 64bit onto a rack-mount server that can't have a floppy drive installed. Do I need to go through slipstreaming an install disk (and if so, can that be done on a...
I still have a large number of floppies. On some of them there probably is source code I don't want to lose. I also don't want to take look at each one individually, as that's going to take a lot of time. What software would be best for copying all data to a hard disk, preferably while creating an index at the same time? I would also be...
Following up on the "How do I code and compile an Amiga application?" question, what development applications and build process is required to boot an Amiga application from a floppy disk? Update: Pointed out by jesup, taken from Amiga RKM Devices: The Amiga trackdisk device directly drives the disk, controls the disk motors, re...
On Windows (XP-7), is there a reliable way of programatically differentiating between USB floppy drives and USB flash drives in C++? At the moment, I'm using WMI to get updates when new Win32_LogicalDisk instances are detected, and then using the DriveType attribute of the LogicalDisk object to figure out a basic type. This works quite ...
I've already done a part of my OS in Assembly, but now I want to build a own bootloader for it too instead of using GRUB. When I was developing my test OS in Assembly I remember that I boot it like this: org 0x7c00 bits 16 ; OS Kernel Here times 510 - ($-$$) db 0 dw 0xAA55 This I've already know. Now I want to use this and execute t...
I wonder if there is an API to distinguish floppy and flash disk in windows, C++ And is it possible to link a flash disk to A:\? Many Thanks！ ...
Hello all, I'm trying to recognize drives types by looping around DriveInfo.GetDrives() result. But for both USB and floppy I get the same DriveType.Removable value. How can I distinguish between them? Thanks! BP ...
I am going through BrokenThorn Operating System Development Series. I am trying to create virtual floppy using steps provided there. Steps are : We will use VFD to create a virtual floppy image to copy our OS to. This will explain how to use it. Open vfdwin.exe. Under the Driver tab, Click the Start button. Thi...