PC wont boot from floppy

[cojer]

build a pc out of old hardware. Trying to boot from a startup floppy so I can fdisk, but I can't get it to boot from any disk. The floppy will read for ~7 seconds but then will stop and the PC will try to boot from the next device. there is no option to turn boot from other device off or have it boot from only floppy. I have tried 2 different drives, including one I know works fine. I will try a different cable see if that works.

 

[upec]

You might have to change BIOS and change boot order.

 

[Crashman]

Does the light come on, then go out?

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[cojer]

yea, light comes on for 7 sec while it tries to read, then goes out.

 

[Crashman]

Are you sure the floppy disk is in perfect condition? These things have an extraordinarily high failure rate as they age, and haven't been produced in a long time.

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[Crashman]

BTW, I no longer boot off floppies, I've used the Win98 CD to boot up new systems for several years now.

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[Rob423]

quick question...........you know those USB mem drives.... can you boot off of one of those bad boys?

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
200gb WD 8mb cache..
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

 

[Crashman]

I know Asus supports it, my P4C800-E can. But figuring out how to make a USB device bootable...

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<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[Crashman]

HAH, I just made an old 16MB flash card (non-bootable) on my flash card device (non-bootable)...BOOTABLE AS A Win98SE FLOPPY WITH 16MB OF SPACE! w00t!

w00t w00t!

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[cojer]

how did you do that? This mobo is old -> p2 bx6 chipset. has usb ports tho..

I have tried 2 different floppys that I know work. I tried booting off the CD drive but i think both drives I have tried are old and broken.

 

[Crashman]

you can't boot off USB because your BIOS doesn't support it.

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<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>