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Nickthestick91
02-21-2006, 10:15 PM
For example, PartitionMagic and BootMagic tell me that it's highly reccommended to make rescue diskettes, but I don't have a floppy drive. I try to put in a blank CD, but it doesn't accept it. Are there any alternatives to this? Thanks in advance.

harrycary
02-22-2006, 02:19 AM
A jump drive should work just fine. Click the browse button and navigate to it.

Nickthestick91
02-22-2006, 02:48 AM
^ That's what I was thinking. Does this seem like a good deal?

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10381460&SearchEngine=DealTime&SearchTerm=10381460&Type=PE&Category=Comp&Gad=0&dcaid=15891

Thanks for the help. :)

Appzalien
02-23-2006, 03:00 AM
You can always get an external floppy that hooks up to your USB. They are more expensive than internal types but would be certain to work, Usb drives don't work on all machines and your bios has to be able to boot from Usb so check that before you buy. Sometimes a program like partition magic is setup to go to the A: drive and getting it on to a Usb device that gets a different drive letter may not be possible, check out their sites for Usb compatibility.