ASBRon 2 Bronze. I have a Similar Problem except it is on a I don't know if there is a Bios Setting or what but any help would be appreciated. In the menu, you'll see an option for USB Flash drive emulation type. Change this to floppy.
This will allow your USB floppy to be detected as a floppy. As for the mass storage cd, I'll try to get one of my internal Dell contacts to email you the OFT with instruction on creating it.
I hope that helps. If you can't find your Server Installation CD, you can download an. This is great for installing Windows. It makes the process painless and you don't have to do all the slipstreaming or USB pen drive work. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Run the following command to prepare your USB drive, and beware — all data stored on it will be lost:.
Save the file. The contents of the USB drive should now look like this:. When the prompt for pressing F6 comes up, please do so. See the following screenshots:.
As said, this even works with Windows Possibly even with Windows NT 4. I tried it with Windows Professional though, and it just works:. Just keep booting from the USB stick until setup is complete, so that the virtual floppy drive is present throughout all stages of the installation process.
For more information please refer to the [ USB mass storage specifications ]. The exact process that this solution goes through looks like this:. With nothing but your USB key, the drivers and the installation CD you can set up ancient Windows pretty much anywhere, as long as you still have an optical drive at least. The USB floppy thing — How to add non-supported drives. This requires copying the entire CD off to another Windows machine, modifying a small file and rebuilding a new ISO using [ nLite ] though.
Open it with your favorite text editor and locate the following part in the Section [HardwareIdsDatabase] :. Depending on your operating system, this may be found on totally different line numbers. SIF , like this:. SIF shown with an invalid non-floppy device here, but it works exactly like that with any unsupported real USB floppy drive.
But with that, you can now use any previously unsupported USB floppy drive for F6 driver installations. That may be especially true if you have to deal with lots of different machines with different SATA AHCI driver requirements or other storage controllers.
Building new ISOs using nLite over and over again can be time consuming after all. All rights reserved. I am re-building another machine with XP bit on it, and I have gone through the painstaking task of installing XP. I have done this several times and — as you know — the Windows XP bit CD install disc can take over an hour to install. Instead of the install CD and optical drive, is it possible to install XP from another hard drive?
If all the files on the install CD were copied across to a HD and the then run setup. Also, Could a USB drive containing all the install files be used some way like this? If it was done via USB 3 with its drivers, it would cut down the time dramatically.
I know this works for USB 2. As you mention in the USB 3. A virtual machine with a physical USB drive piped through to it should be good enough for a quick test I guess. Searching, I found a number of tricks to speed things up. Enter taskmgr, Processeses and right click setup. This cut down the time to approximately 25 minutes to get XP bit up and running. EXE and setup XP bit to another partition.
It did work but was problematic and I am still working on it. I am not too sure if it cut the time less than 25 minutes. I need to get away from floppy drives. This is not working, tried 2 different computers.
It starts from pendrive, loads the f6-images, ask to boot from CD, yes, windows-setups starts, but ALWAYS when setup starts to load files after the F6-question both machines immediately restart! I tried different usb-ports, pendrives, changed the optical drives, RAM, but it is always failing. I have Windows Pro on a thumb drive, how would I go about using a secondary thumb drive to boot up the necessary drivers to install Windows ? So you might want to do that instead.
If you still wish to insist on an F6 solution with two USB pen drives, please read on! Wednesday, December 19, AM. This CD was originally supplied along with the system.
If you do not have the media you can easily download ISO files from Dell's support website. The CD contains a Graphical Wizard which will help you answer questions for the installation of an Operating System and will supply all the drivers for the system during the installation process.
The downside of this method is you will be stuck with loads of Dell software you might not need or might not want. You can add a physical floppy device to your system, since this is the only media that can be used in Windows Server with F6 to install Mass Storage Controllers. Microsoft KnowledgeBase article explains this in great detail for both Windows Server and Windows Server Wednesday, December 19, PM.
Hi, I have a similar issue with a Dell Power Dege server on which i am trying to install Windows The option of extracting this RAID controller drivers to a floopy and pressing F6 during Win installations did not help either because i do not see Win option on the management CD from which to extract this controller driver. Please could you help me here.
Thankx Guy Moquet. Monday, February 1, PM. Microsoft in Microsoft KnowledgeBase article wrote:.
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