HP Drive Key Boot Utility

I'm preparing to format my usb drive into an emulated floppy so I can install XP but I need to know one thing. Will I be able to format it back? Ie. Now it's FAT32 but once it's a "floppy drive" will I be able to change it back to FAT32 or is it now stuck thinking it's a floppy drive.

 

No format is permanent, you can always reformat.

However, unless you have a BIOS that maps any removable mass storage device as A: automatically, I'm reasonably certain you won't be able to use the USB drive for F6 drivers, if that's what you're trying to do. Using a utility to format a USB drive to emulate a floppy requires that you actually boot from the USB drive, in order for it to appear as A:. So you'd have to boot it with enough of an OS (DOS), including CD/DVD drivers to start the XP setup, as well as have enough space for the drivers you're trying to add. When you format a USB drive as a boot floppy, it only has the same space available as a regular floppy -- therefore you likely wouldn't have enough room for all this.

I'd be curious to know if you get it to work, but I'm skeptical.

 

Doesn't work, guess for now I'm just gonna clean install Vista. Oh well, maybe I'll go to the self-help and see if I can find a usb floppy drive for $5.