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urbecrisch:
Does anyone know where I can get a 3.5" 1.44MB SERIAL FLOPPY DISK DRIVE?

I'm trying to get an old touchscreen with CPU to work for a bartop and I recently replaced the HD.  The problem is that I need to boot an OS onto the HD but the only way is from a floppy serial port on the motherboard.

Does anyone have one of these lying around or knows somebody or someplace where I can get one?  I'm willing to pay for it of course.  It's the only thing preventing me from getting this bartop running.

Help!

Angry_Radish:
I may have some in a bin at work left over from some older dell laptops, PM me and I can let you know in the morning

urbecrisch:
PM sent Angry.  BTW, I'm a fellow Cheesehead!

paigeoliver:
That isn't the ONLY way, you can also stick the drive in another machine do a basic dos install on it (like the format C: /sys command from an old windows boot disk), and also copy the operating system install files onto the hard drive, then boot into DOS and install.

I did the exact same thing with the same sort of computer you are describing.

urbecrisch:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 16, 2008, 06:43:34 am ---That isn't the ONLY way, you can also stick the drive in another machine do a basic dos install on it (like the format C: /sys command from an old windows boot disk), and also copy the operating system install files onto the hard drive, then boot into DOS and install.

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Paige, was kind of monitor/system did you work on?

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