Virtual Floppy Drive

on November 16, 2007 - 4 Comments
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Why would I need a virtual floppy drive? Many laptops and desktop computers are being built without the old handy floppy drive. But there are still some times when you need to use it. Some older programs still need to use a floppy drive and even some windows recovery features make use of a floppy drive.

This is also very useful for virtual machines such as VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC.

This free very useful program is called Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1. – website

Here is a quick overview and some screen shots.

Open the program, choose a drive 0 or drive 1.

Virtual Floppy 1

Click on Open, the browse to where you want to store your floppy disk image.

Virtual Floppy 2

Once you have the file name and location set, choose “Create”.

Virtual Floppy 4

There you have it. You now have a virtual floppy drive. You can also set the drive letter with the “Change” button.

Virtual Floppy 2

If you have any trouble, just stop and start the driver to “reset” things.

Virtual Floppy Reset

To download the software visit.

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

Enjoy!

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  1. what
    June 28, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    This program is —— in that I can’t run most auto extract dos programs to a: . I have to make a disk image…because the extracting exe does not detect this virtual —-. pissed.

  2. Workedforme!
    March 6, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Well, the tool worked for me. The order that I did things in was :
    On Drive tab, chose auto, clicked install and then start.
    Switched to Drive 0
    created my image, assigned the drive letter A (I had to do this specifically), then formatted, and voila, my Dell BIOS app found the floppy and extracted to the image.

    UBER useful tool.

    Cheers,

    Me.

  3. Luc
    June 15, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Yes, it worked for me too, but I can not change the disk (media) when sitting in drive A (command prompt A:>)

    We can change for the normal floppy right?

  4. Andreas
    February 16, 2010 at 3:26 am

    This is a great tool!
    I’m using it for batch automation from C# code, and it works like a charm. That is, until Gates & co created Windows 7. WHY?!?!

    Anyone who knows how to use this tool (VFD) or any other virtual floppy tool with a command line interface in windows 7?

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