I’ve done that too, because many PC’s can’t be booted up from a Flash Drive. PS: If you have a CD burning program like “Nero”, you can create a bootable CD from a Bootable Flash Drive. I have several Flash Drives set up with programs that I used to use from a Floppy Disk. The nice thing is, you can add and remove programs and files from the Flash Drive just like you would the floppy disk, only most Flash Drives are much larger. Then once you format the Flash drive, using the boot files from the Floppy, copy the rest of the files from the Floppy Disk to the Flash Drive. Next you need a little utility from HP that allows you to format a Flash Drive, utilizing the 3 boot files from the floppy. Of course you need a PC with a floppy drive to read the original floppy disks. It IS a multi-step process but it’s not really difficult. I’ve been doing what you ask, for several years now. I don’t want to burn a disk image of each floppy I have to a CD/DVD, so what possibilities are there of using a USB stick to boot the various programs and what would I have to reconfigure to get it to work? Some give this advice, some give that advice – it’s difficult to know how to find my way through this forest. What I’d like is to have some way of transferring the data currently on various bootable floppies to a USB stick so I can still boot these programs in an XP SP3 machine without a floppy drive. This topic comes and bites me in the bum periodically. It might cost to get the modern version but that’s the trade-off you would need to consider Maybe there are modern versions of those programs you can install on the XP SP3 PC or even onto a flash drive What are the programs and how many are there? However, without an imaging program/procedure I do not see how that can be accomplished Then see what it would take to transfer the programs & data to a bootable USB flash drive from there
That way you can at least use those floppy disks with their programs & data as you have been providing they are compatible with XP Or buy an external floppy drive to connect to the XP SP3 computer Remove the floppy drive from that computer and install it into the XP SP3 computer or connect it externally Since you say you don’t want to burn a disk image of each floppy to a CD that tells me you still have the PC on which you can use those floppy disks so would you consider the following ideas? I haven’t been able to figure out yet how you could transfer bootable programs on floppy disks onto a bootable USB flash drive without an imaging program/procedure
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