When the floppy is enabled in the bios, Vista shows me a floppy (A:) in my computer (it is not physically there). Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to explain exactly what I was doing, so maybe somebody could help. I still want to find out what to do to make VFD, ImDisk or any other virtual floppy software to work as it should (not just to copy files with Windows Explorer, but to work as if I had a physical floppy drive).ĭoes anyone know if I am doing something wrongwith VFD or ImDisk?ĭoes anyone know any other virtual floppy software that works in Vista?ĭoes anyone know a ramdisk software that works in Vista as a floppy? More than an hour of work for something that, supposedly, a virtual floppy like VFD or ImDisk should be enough to accomplish, and should take about 5 minutes.
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So, to sum up, I had to install Virtualbox and install XP as a guest, create an empty 1440 image, ran the ontrack floppy creator at the guest, save the modified floppy image, and check it at the host system. The content of the floppy image was correctly created. I saved the floppy image, closed Virtualbox and then re-open the 1440 floppy image created, but this time using ImDisk in the original Vista host. Then in the Virtualbox XP I ran the Ontrack floppy disk creator and it worked.
In the guest, I used a virtual floppy image (originally created as an empty 1440 floppy in the Vista host, using ImDisk in the host).
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While testing ImDisk, I also followed the directions about starting its service automatically for each boot, and checking that ImDisk device driver (at Windows device manager) was working.įor both VFD and ImDisk, I tried running them as administrator, and also in compatibility mode as XP, 2K and even Windows 98.įinally, I tried installing Virtualbox, with my vista system as host, and installed XP w/SP3 as guest. There are tons of ramdisk software, but I have no idea which one could work as a virtual floppy. Simply put, that's the way the program works.Ībout trying a ramdisk, using VFD or ImDisk I tried it, but it didn't work either. To "find another floppy creator program" sounds like "use UBCD without having to boot anything".
If that's the way a programmer wants to distribute its soft, and I want to use it, then I have to create the floppy. If I had a real floppy installed, the floppy creator would work. First, I'm not sure what do you mean by "find another floppy creator program".
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