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

By: Xantes

Xantes — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:02:50 +0000

Other than boot-able floppy disks I see no reason whatsoever of imaging a floppy disk! Whatever not boot-able can be copied - as with copy and paste - all the files from the floppy drive to any other copyable medium: HDD, SSD, flash drives, etc.!

By: anon

anon — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:26:08 +0000

Found this post in a search. I finally found a fix for Windows 7 64bit users should anyone need it.

Levicki tech spot
http://levicki.net/articles/stories/2007/08/17/The_story_of_the_vfdwin_21_64-bit_driver_patch.php

By: booter

booter — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:03:55 +0000

I want to make a bootable image file and then boot from it as a virtual floppy drive by adding an entry in boot.ini. I tried using the image created by VFD, but I can’t get it to boot. Does anyone know how to get it to work?

By: Neelesh

Neelesh — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:23:28 +0000

I am using windows 7 x64 and VFD is not working, displaying compatibility issue. Is there any way I can create a virtual floppy drive in my system? Please tell.

By: Shijaz Abdulla

Shijaz Abdulla — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:06:09 +0000

The links is dead. Here is one that works:
http://www.pendriveapps.com/goto/VirtualFloppyDrive/783/2

By: gauravfunky2001

gauravfunky2001 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:33:30 +0000

i don’t have a option of create file on control panel. so tell me how to save a file on virtual floppy drive.

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!