[mdlug] External Floppy Drive

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 20:35 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Peter Bart wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:39:21 -0500
> > Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > And for those of you wondering just
> > what the #%¡¿§*°½ßñ I'm up to, I'm attempting to load
> >  Windows XP onto a sata hard drive. The only point to
> > that being by beloved's SIMS  games will run. Apparently
> > XP cannot detect sata drives w/o having first loaded the
> > drivers. Off a  floppy drive no less. Since the Thinkpad
> > drives I still have won't work I thought I may as well
> > add to my travelling roadshow.
> 
> Have you tried VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen, Bochs, or anything
> else like that?
> 

	VM Ware Workstation 5, Wine. I think I may have made too many mistakes
setting up VM Ware, it was agonizingly slow. Wine didn't support Sims at
that time, and may not yet currently. 

Best Regards,

> 
> Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
> Peter The Plumber