interesting floppy feature

[Zealous]

i just picked up a sony floppy drive of an auction (not ebay) and when i go through dos and access the drive when there are no floppies in it, it shows a boot disk, complete with fdisk format.com himem.sys everything is there, i was wondering is this a normal feature? i haven't used a floppy in a long time thanks to my burner, more importantly is there a way to make it boot off the floppy without a floppy in it?

[muno]

Post a picture of dir a: =) (In dos)
-M

[hallam2003]

I suppose that there could be, but i've never heard of it. Is it a farily new one? you say you got it at an aution, was it new? oh well, never hear of it, post a picture.


Hallam

[Bovon]

Hmmm...donno...maybe try a different floppy disk in the drive, and see if what it reads is different?. I am not aware of any floppy drives that have cache onboard...thats the only thing I can think of that could retain data from some former floppy disk that had that boot disk info on it.

Silly question I suppose, but you HAVE tried another disk in it, to know for certain there is not a diskette stuck inside...

[vintron]

look in your strtup files to c if u are loading some kind of "RamDrives". That happens and these are usually identified as A or B: