Virtual Floppy Drives

Modern computers do not come with floppy drives anymore which can turn out to be problematic if a software requires a floppy drive. This is usually software that has been written when floppy drives were more common and installed on every computer. Some older operating systems or software programs require a floppy drive for some of their functions.

Virtual floppy drives provide floppy drive functionality in Windows without the need to have a real floppy drive installed. They can be used to mount floppy drive images or use functions in software programs that want to write data to floppy drives.

Virtual Floppy Drive is probably one of the most popular tools to emulate a floppy drive. It is a portable software that is compatible with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 are supposed to work as well). The user can access both the command line or graphical user interface version of the program as both are provided.

It is possible to emulate one or two floppy drives support a wide variety of different media types from 160KB (5.25″) to 2.88MB (3.5″). The software supports file and RAM modes, persistent drive letters and integrates itself nicely into the Windows shell.

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9 Responses to “Virtual Floppy Drives”

1. Paul. says:

   January 20, 2009 at 7:12 pm

   Thanks a lot. Great app.

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2. David Bradley says:

   January 20, 2009 at 7:21 pm

   This won’t work before XP boots up though, I need a sys level virtual floppy! Oh, well…

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   • Martin says:

     January 20, 2009 at 7:40 pm

     You are right David, it will only work in Windows.

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3. jan says:

   January 20, 2009 at 9:55 pm

   Oh yes indeed, this is great software!
   I’ve described it in my userguide for recovering XP on a Dell-laptop in case the user installed Vista as the main operating system.
   See it over here: http://janennele.blogspot.com/2009/01/revert-back-from-vista-to-xp-on-dell.html

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4. neem says:

   January 21, 2009 at 6:57 am

   A note to Vista users : remember to run VFD as an Administrator (rt-click on vfd.exe and select “Run as Administrator”).. if you don’t do this.. the driver won’t install from the VFD control panel.

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5. rene gonzalez says:

   February 6, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   it won’t work on (64 bits – windows) the error “This driver has been blocked from loading” will appear.

   thank you for your time.

   Reply

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