I have a floppy drive from a desktop I could pull from. But could I configure
a floppy drive to a laptop?

"Sharon F" wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:37:12 -0800, Ryan wrote:
>
> > There is no floppy. Just a DVD/CDRW drive. The recovery media doesn't really
> > allow any options. Basically, you just pop in the 1st CD and it start
> > recovering, then prompts for the 2nd & 3rd CD's.
>
> Sorry that you don't have a floppy - you could have used the floppy disk
> set to run the Recovery Console. Not having one is very common these days.
> Don't have one on my desktop either.
>
> Unfortunately, the limited abilities of your recovery media limit your
> choices of repair methods. You might call support for your laptop for
> suggestions. There's a slim chance they may be able to offer you
> alternatives but most likely they will refer you to using your recovery
> media. Can't hurt to ask...
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
>