Comments on: Virtual Floppy Drive - Floppy Disk Imaging and Virtualization Part II

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:27:05 +0000

@Joe April 15th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I get this msg in Windows 7 64 bit too.
The same message is given for any and all runs which fail the VfdIsValidPlatform test, regardless of windows version.

For Windows 7 64 the program refuses to run because the IsWow64Process function returns TRUE.

So, i can’t undestand how Tong’s advice could help.

Tong Says:
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 pm
“It does work in windows 7 64.. hit f8 and disable signing of drivers…”

By: Livio

Livio — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:09:42 +0000

Thanks, very good … this is very helpful utility

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:03:24 +0000

I’m trying to get this to work in a 64 bit version of vista and I get the error message saying it does not run in ME and windows 98. How do I disable the signing of drivers on vista?

By: Rick Wicks

Rick Wicks — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:43:34 +0000

I can’t quite tell if this is what I need. I’ve done quite a bit of searching and can’t quite figure out what to do. I wonder if you can briefly tell me if I’m on the right track?

I’m trying to install Windows 2000 onto a Parallels (virtual) computer on an iMac. The Windows 2000 installation starts with 4 bootable floppy diskettes (or at least the first one is bootable, then it continues to the others) before continuing to the installation CD. But the iMac doesn’t have a floppy drive to get started on.

So I’m trying to create a virtual floppy drive, put images of the four floppy diskettes into it, and put it onto a CD. I’m hoping that then, when I try to install the system on Parallels in the iMac, it will recognize the bootable virtual floppy on the CD and get started from that. (Because, in Parallels, the iMac has no system to start with whatever.)

I’ve found programs for creating .img files but I don’t understand how to get them to make an image file from the bootable diskette. I found your programs but don’t really understand how they work for this purpose.

Sorry, I’m not very experienced at all this. Thanks for any suggestions!

By: Tong

Tong — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:37:07 +0000

It does work in windows 7 64.. hit f8 and disable signing of drivers. then run the program as admin.. ofcourse get the 64 version of vfd.sys

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:29:45 +0000

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? Suggestions?

By: Ameerlal

Ameerlal — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:17:52 +0000

Dear Sir,
I need make virtual floppy drive in my laptop which is opearting with Windows vista premium.This is i need to install Allen bradly Software .Please help me .

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:35:27 +0000

is good but it doesn’t work for 64 bits

By: Arturo

Arturo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:39:28 +0000

Dear Evan, thanks for the tip, I also had the error in Vista of Failed to install the VFD driver.
Access is denied. running as administrator fix it.

By: sdd

sdd — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:13:50 +0000