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[Highspeedmac]

Ok, I am working on a Bootdisk.

I have 2 PC's. 1 Desktop and 1 Notebook.

The notebook has no Floppy drive.

My wife uses the desktop which has a floppy drive.

She got mad at me because the work I am doing

I need to use her desktop, for the floppy drive.

She says I am hogging the PC.

Ok, now, what I want to know is there a way that

I can emulate a fake floppy on the notebook.

Some type of software that will allow me to mount

a floppy image as a working A: drive and then

unmount it when I don't want it any more, with out

rebooting the PC.

This way I can work on the Boot floppy while I am

at the notebook and then use NERO to make a bootable

CD out of the floppy in the fake floppy drive. Then I can take

the bootable CD to my wife PC just to test it.

Oh yea, I am using Windows Xp Home SP1

Thank's For Your Time And Responses In Advance

[HyDeNCiTy]

I think u can boot from that CD... I believe u can cause I was able to do it on mine... Maybe u have to change the boot sequence on ur machine...

[Highspeedmac]

HyDeNCiTy, Thanks for your reply.

I think you may have mis-understood what I am saying.

I have no problem booting from the CD On my Notebook.

What I am trying to do is find A software That can make a

virtual A: drive on my Notebook PC. So I can Mount A Floppy

Image.

[HyDeNCiTy]

Oh My bad... yes I did mis-understand... I'm sorry..

[Highspeedmac]

No Problem

Thanks

[XtremeMaC]

i don't get your question

but let me reply as far as i understood

ok go grab virtual pc or vmware

then by using any iso program (ultraiso, winiso, magiciso, etc) make a bootable image of the bootable record.

then open up either vpc or vmware to test the boot. u won't need a floppy like this.

other than that if u're trying to put the bootable floppy into a cd so it boots refer to www.nu2.nu (bart's)

[Skyfrog]

You can use WinImage to open, extract or add files from and create floppy disk images if that is what you need.

[Highspeedmac]

I'm sorry for not explaining myself Correctly.

I have a Notebook PC with no Floppy drive.

Is there a Software that I could use to Mount A Virtual Floppy

Drive in Windows Xp.

Thanks Again.

[Highspeedmac]

I think I found what I am looking for.

Virtual Floppy Driver:

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#top

Again, sorry for not explaining myself Correctly Before.

And Thank you for your help and Suggestion.

[LiquidSage]

i also have a lappy w/o a floppy. trust me, get a usb floppy drive. in the meantime, i would use RamDiskNT. It can emulate a 2.88/1.44 and other sizes as well. Virtual PC is VERY picky about floppies so i would not really bother with that as a good alternative.

[Highspeedmac]

RamDisk is a very useful App.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Virtual Floppy Driver is smaller and does exactly what I need it to .

And yes I will get a USB Floppy Soon.

[Aaron]

Didn't know USB Floppy drives existed! Good to know, will get one myself soon!

[XtremeMaC]

probably bc u never cared about having a usb floppy

last thing i'm gonna put on my usb's

[Aaron]

I've got 10 USB ports (4 from mobo, 4 from extension card, and 2 at the front), and only 3 are in use. Saves having to put an internal floppy in the PC when its not going to be used much

[pup]

@AaronXP

Name me 1 good reason why you need a floppy drive?

They're slow. They can't store anything bigger than a small Word document, they lose data whenever you walk past an Industrial Strength Magnet (happens more often than you would think), and CDs only cost 10p a pop. Heck, DVDs are now under £1.