My Vaio PIII notebook has just crashed and I have lost my last backup data disc. Have recovered some of my data by booting with the standard Me startup/rescue floppy and copied some files back to a blank floppy. Some files are tiffs and too big for a floppy some am thinking about another software solution before paying through the nose to have a hardware solution - harddisk removal. Am aware that latest machines have a USB storage device boot option so code must exist which can be added to my Me rescue disc or any later dos start disc with the USB port enabled so that I can boot from floppy and copy over data to the external disk. Anyone know of this solution or why their isn't one?

http://83.67.55.228/bootable.htm Though is aimed at the CODI Flash Device the principal is the same for all USB Mass Storage Devices. If you require USB CDROM Support look thru the recent posts in the DOS Standalone forum. Also by using the SEAERCH FUNCTION you can look for posts by MADMAXUSB who has undertaken a lot of DOS USB testing. DO NOT BAN THE MESSENGER

Also, If there aren't many tiffs you can pkzip them across multiple floppies. [not fun] Or you can laplink the laptop to another box. Cable chould be well under $20. HTH M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.