Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:19 am
Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1 is very self explanatory.
It enables you to create and mount a virtual floppy drive on your NT/2000/XP/Vista machine. You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents -- view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a virtual floppy, launch a program on a virtual floppy... almost anything you can do with a real floppy.
Hardly any machines these days come with floppy drives but quite often older programs and drivers will require a floppy drive.
Example: If you're reinstalling a laptop with a SATA drive you'll need the driver for it. You'll head on over to the driver website and download the .exe file only to find it requires a floppy drive to extract to. Run Virtual Floppy Drive and let it run.
Tried and tested today and runs as portable. It does create a shortcut into the windows pre-fetch folder however so does almost everything. No entries in the registry as far as I can gather.
Admittedly it's not a program you'll use everyday but I've had a few occassions to use a floppy drive in desktops/laptops that don't have them and this program saved the day.
VFD21.zip Download Here
VFD Website Here
It enables you to create and mount a virtual floppy drive on your NT/2000/XP/Vista machine. You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents -- view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a virtual floppy, launch a program on a virtual floppy... almost anything you can do with a real floppy.
Hardly any machines these days come with floppy drives but quite often older programs and drivers will require a floppy drive.
Example: If you're reinstalling a laptop with a SATA drive you'll need the driver for it. You'll head on over to the driver website and download the .exe file only to find it requires a floppy drive to extract to. Run Virtual Floppy Drive and let it run.
Tried and tested today and runs as portable. It does create a shortcut into the windows pre-fetch folder however so does almost everything. No entries in the registry as far as I can gather.
Admittedly it's not a program you'll use everyday but I've had a few occassions to use a floppy drive in desktops/laptops that don't have them and this program saved the day.
VFD21.zip Download Here
VFD Website Here