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Boot WinXP from USB | Make DOS from USB drive

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Floppy disk invented by IBM have now been largely superseded by flash drive these days as more PCs are removing the floppy drive support on their computer packages and now switching to a more reliable USB media devices. To mention some pros in using USB flash disk instead of the old floppy disk are:

1. Capacity – USB flash drives have larger storage (ranging from 64 MB to 256 GB or more) space than the 1.44MB FDD.
2. Speed – USB drives operates faster by reading up to 30mb per second and write about half of its reading speed.
3. Durability – USB devices are designed for multiple cycles of insertion and removal between the USB device and plug.
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