Windows 7 UEFI Floppy drive won't show


  1. andreja6
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    Windows 7 UEFI Floppy drive won't show


    My computer is used for archiving old software from floppies and data recovery.
    I recently reinstalled 7 on this computer to support UEFI mode, but now I can't do one of my main tasks. When making backups, I MUST use the internal floppy. USB drives do not cut it. I can't however, since windows 7 UEFI apparently blocks floppies for no reason using a --no-floppy flag. Is there some way around this? This is a NECESSARY feature! I otherwise might as well just never update my desktop again
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  3. iko22
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    Hello andreja6

    Which motherboard are you using? Maybe the BIOS has an Enable legacy floppy option somewhere?
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  4. andreja6
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    It's an acer M4618G, the BIOS isn't the issue as it's visible in Linux. This is caused strictly by the windows UEFI loader forcing a -nofloppy flag to be set, and I want to know how to change this
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  6. RolandJS
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    andre, is it possible to roll-back to the previous noUEFI Windows 7?
    "...I MUST use the internal floppy. USB drives do not cut it..." I take this to mean external usb floppy drives do not work, correct? Earlier, I thought you meant usb flash drives, until I re-read the opening.
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  7. andreja6
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    RolandJS said:
    andre, is it possible to roll-back to the previous noUEFI Windows 7?
    "...I MUST use the internal floppy. USB drives do not cut it..." I take this to mean external usb floppy drives do not work, correct? Earlier, I thought you meant usb flash drives, until I re-read the opening.
    Sadly, I had to reinstall because I ended up irreversibly bricking the legacy BIOS one. I might be stuck with reinstalling in legacy mode if comes to that.
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