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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

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 [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 6th, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Copy and run Floppy Boot Disks from USB

Ghacks got slashdotted yesterday and I had to enable caching to make the site run fluent as usual. I’am sorry if you experienced troubles connecting to my website, those should be solved by now. When I was installing Windows XP on my new computer that had only SATA drives I had to use a floppy disk to load the SATA drivers because Windows did not have them onboard at that time. I had to buy a floppy drive, floppy disks and create a bootdisk and load the drivers from that disk during setup.

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Categories: Tools

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