Comments on: Virtual Floppy Drives

By: esjabe

esjabe — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:23:32 +0000

It is a great little app. Unfortunately for users trying to convert OS/2 fix-pack images with LOADDSKF may be out of luck, An error of “media not supported” arises in this case. This means having to wait for the files to transfer to a USB Floppy then wait for UltraISO to to grind out the .ima image… instead of the lightening speed of the virtual floppy. Ugh! Only 35 more to go…

If you’ve got a better solution for me… I’d love to hear it.

By: chronoix

chronoix — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:21:01 +0000

you circumvent this by downloading Virtual PC windows XP mode for Windows 7 and installing/using it under that.

By: FG

FG — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:06:25 +0000

How do you circumvent this?

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Another Nail in the Floppy Drives Coffin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:13:31 +0000

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:25:24 +0000

The “driver has been blocked” message is not due to 64-bit, but because Windows 7 refuses to install drivers from authors who do not pay Microsoft. There are ways to circumvent this, but even then it does not work as VFS has an internal check that automatically quits the program if it is run on a 64-bit system.

By: Saiod

Saiod — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:02:10 +0000

ik it is nice

By: rene gonzalez

rene gonzalez — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:09:56 +0000

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

thank you for your time.

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By: Add Virtual Floppy Drives to Vista and XP machines

Add Virtual Floppy Drives to Vista and XP machines — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:20:32 +0000

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By: neem

neem — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:57:32 +0000

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.

By: jan

jan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:55:48 +0000

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

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:40:13 +0000

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

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By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:21:53 +0000

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

By: Paul.

Paul. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:12:49 +0000

Thanks a lot. Great app.