This fix will add support for USB floppy disks in the text mode portion of Windows Setup, and allow you to load F6 drivers.
This fix should work on Windows 2000 and up.
I have only tested it with a Sony USB floppy drive on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 x64

EDIT: Thanks go out to everyone who has added more drives to this fix.

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Windows Setup F6 USB Floppy Drive Fix

Create your Storage device driver disk and open textsetup.oem
Add the following lines to the bottom of [HardwareIds.scsi.(device name)]
If this section does not exist you must create it!
If your USB floppy drive still does not work, look for the hardware ID in the floppy drive driver's .inf file, and make sure any legacy floppy drives are disabled in the bios.



Here is an example file



This post has been edited by spiff: Oct 31 2006, 12:50 PM

Hi guys,

I tried this solution with a USB KEY and it doesn't work at all ! It's weird because the USB KEY use exactly the same principle.

1) - Get the USB\VID adress :

With Devcon I list all the " hardware ID's of devices. " with the command line : Devcon /hwids * > OUT.TXT

#-----------------------------------------------------#

USB\VID_0930&PID_6540F8125605192D91E
Name: USB Mass Storage Device
Hardware ID's:
USB\Vid_0930&Pid_6540&Rev_0200
USB\Vid_0930&Pid_6540

#-----------------------------------------------------#

2) - Add the new ID within the " txtsetup.oem "

#--The following lines give additional USB floppy support

id = "USB\VID_03F0&PID_2001", "usbstor" #--HP
id = "USB\VID_054C&PID_002C", "usbstor" #--Sony
id = "USB\VID_057B&PID_0001", "usbstor" #--Y-E Data
id = "USB\VID_0409&PID_0040", "usbstor" #--NEC
id = "USB\VID_0424&PID_0FDC", "usbstor" #--SMSC
id = "USB\VID_08BD&PID_1100", "usbstor" #--Iomega
id = "USB\VID_055D&PID_2020", "usbstor" #--Samsung
id = "USB\Vid_0930&Pid_6540", "usbstor" #--MY USB KEY *

3) - Go to the BIOS configuration and enable the floppy emulation over the USB KEY

On theory everything is fine, except the fact that it doesn't work , any ideas ?