Fri 16 Nov 2007
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.
Click on Open, the browse to where you want to store your floppy disk image.
Once you have the file name and location set, choose “Create”.
There you have it. You now have a virtual floppy drive. You can also set the drive letter with the “Change” button.
If you have any trouble, just stop and start the driver to “reset” things.
To download the software visit.
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.htmlÂ
Enjoy!
June 28th, 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.