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I have recently bought a usb hard drive from ebay, but it has a floppy disk to assist with the setup but I do not have a floopy slot on my pc. any ideas how I can set this up as my pc cannot set it up automatically thanks

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I would think that the usb device would be plug and play. Meaning you dont need to install anything. I know many flash drives and other devices are plug and play yet they come with additional software to have features. Try plugging your usb device in, wait 10 - 15 seconds and see if anything comes up. If not then I guess you could use a school computer or a friends computer or any that has a floppy drive, put contents of floppy onto said computer then email it back or burn on cd or something.

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  My advice, assuming you have a CD or CD/DVD slot on your PC, is to go to a friend or a computer store and get them to copy the floppy disk on to a CD. Then you could use it in place of the floppy disk.

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