Can't remove iso partition from USB.

BamaInArk · Mar 9, 2024

I have an MSI Z790 motherboard that came with one of those flash drives however mine is just a normally formatted one and appears to be a 16 GB version. It has the MSI ISO file on it for the Drivers. Plugging it in does not auto mount the ISO for me. From the looks of it I can simply delete the included ISO file and reuse the flash drive.
Wonder if they changed something with later models?

Berton · Mar 9, 2024

Winuser said:
Not exactly the same thing but this has me thinking about all of the free AOL floppy disk I use to reuse.

We are showing our age, I recall those 3.5" disks and having to put tape over the hole where the switch should have been or the black tape on the notch on the 5.25" disks so as to reuse them.

Winuser · Mar 9, 2024

Berton said:
We are showing our age, I recall those 3.5" disks and having to put tape over the hole where the switch should have been or the black tape on the notch on the 5.25" disks so as to reuse them.

Did you ever use the punch tool on a 5.25" disk so you could use both sides? Those were the Good Old Days...(not)

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Berton · Mar 9, 2024

Winuser said:
Did you ever use the punch tool on a 5.25" disk so you could use both sides? Those were the Good Old Days...(not) .

But we were learning and doing, it was my next career.

Winuser · Mar 10, 2024

Berton said:
But we were learning and doing, it was my next career.

Yes we where learning and tech was advancing. My very first computer was a Atari 800XL. My first external drive used a cassette tape and I had to remember the counter number when using it. It was such a huge improvement when they released the 5.25" drive. I eventually upgraded to two 5.25" drives. My first printer used stubby ink pens for the ink cartridges. Typing this just gave me a nightmare attack about my first printer on my very first Windows computer. It was a Dot Matrix printer and it really PO'd my wife when I used it because it was so noisy. To make her happy and to keep myself out of the dog house I did my best to only use it when she wasn't around.

Bree · Mar 10, 2024

Sqrly said:
This one just happens to be short enough to fit in the usb port in the Accord with the door closed but long enough to easily remove.

If you want 'small' get a micro SD card and a USB adapter like this one.....

Amazon | SanDisk MobileMate USB 3.0 microSD Card Reader

idgat · Mar 10, 2024

I have recollections in a previous life of encountering USB drives that came with software embedded in a ROM chip that could not be accessed.

IIRC there was a pirate patch available that enabled the user to "flash the flash" to remove the files. Being ROM they didn't take up space on the drive itself but appeared in Explorer whenever plugged in. Bloody annoying.

That idea didn't go down too well, and consequently didn't last long.

Berton · Mar 10, 2024

Winuser said:
Yes we where learning and tech was advancing. My very first computer was a Atari 800XL. My first external drive used a cassette tape and I had to remember the counter number when using it. It was such a huge improvement when they released the 5.25" drive. I eventually upgraded to two 5.25" drives. My first printer used stubby ink pens for the ink cartridges. Typing this just gave me a nightmare attack about my first printer on my very first Windows computer. It was a Dot Matrix printer and it really PO'd my wife when I used it because it was so noisy. To make her happy and to keep myself out of the dog house I did my best to only use it when she wasn't around.

Much fun, my first was a Hewitt-Rand AMD 80386-40MHz CPU, 4MB RAM and 120MB HDD with a 14" CRT monitor. with a Panasonic 2124 Dot-Matrix printer with the Color-ribbon kit with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1. As I recall the whole setup was a bit over $3000USD in '92. Then I added the Colorado Memory tape backup which had a parallel-port pass-through for adding a CD drive.

steveg · Mar 10, 2024

Berton said:
Much fun, my first was a Hewitt-Rand AMD 80386-40MHz CPU, 4MB RAM and 120MB HDD with a 14" CRT monitor. with a Panasonic 2124 Dot-Matrix printer with the Color-ribbon kit with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1. As I recall the whole setup was a bit over $3000USD in '92. Then I added the Colorado Memory tape backup which had a parallel-port pass-through for adding a CD drive.

My first experience was when the Air Force bought a bunch of Z-120's back in early 80's for mostly office work and databases. Started me off on the whole MS-DOS learning experience, formatting, installing system, chkdsk, etc.

Berton · Mar 10, 2024

steveg said:
My first experience was when the Air Force bought a bunch of Z-120's back in early 80's for mostly office work and databases. Started me off on the whole MS-DOS learning experience, formatting, installing system, chkdsk, etc.

Were those the 8" floppy disks? I never had to work with them.

steveg · Mar 10, 2024

Berton said:
Were those the 8" floppy disks? I never had to work with them.

Ours had 5.25" floppy.

TechnoMage2021 · Mar 10, 2024

When I was in the Commodore 64 business, back in the early 80's, I would install a little toggle switch on the C-1541 disk drives, to Bypass the Write Protect feature, so we could use both sides of an otherwise one sided disk. NO disk notcher required!
I also did read/write head re-alignments on those drives, along with installing my own design 'Quiet Stop' to keep the drive from knocking itself out of alignment.
Those were some FUN times.
I still have my C-64, three monitors, and several C-1541 disk drives, but I'm missing the monitor cables. :tears:

Thanks for the little trip down memory lane.
TM

Kees · Mar 10, 2024

I have been working quite a lot with 8 inch floppy disks. The old Wang text system, converting via Intermedia conversion machine (based on MS-DOS) into a typographical system (Linotype). The book-layout system Linotype 7000 was based on those floppy disks as well (totally different formatting). Have been on a hardware course for that in Cheltenham...

At home, I used a Commodore 64 (with C-1541 disk drive) too, like @TechnoMage2021 just told, but I threw them away a long time ago when I bought my first MS-DOS personal computer (with 10 MByte hard disk!).

SIW2 · Mar 10, 2024

@TechnoMage2021

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DELL-ghost-imaging

bobkn · Mar 10, 2024

Kees said:
I have been working quite a lot with 8 inch floppy disks. The old Wang text system, converting via Intermedia conversion machine (based on MS-DOS) into a typographical system (Linotype). The book-layout system Linotype 7000 was based on those floppy disks as well (totally different formatting). Have been on a hardware course for that in Cheltenham...

At home, I used a Commodore 64 (with C-1541 disk drive) too, like @TechnoMage2021 just told, but I threw them away a long time ago when I bought my first MS-DOS personal computer (with 10 MByte hard disk!).

8" floppies?

Have they retained data for 40 years? I'm impressed.

garlin · Mar 10, 2024

steveg said:
My first experience was when the Air Force bought a bunch of Z-120's back in early 80's for mostly office work and databases. Started me off on the whole MS-DOS learning experience, formatting, installing system, chkdsk, etc.

USAF retired 8" floppies from the Minuteman ICBM launch control systems back in 2019. yeah....