Highspeedmac Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 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 doingI 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 thatI can emulate a fake floppy on the notebook.Some type of software that will allow me to mounta floppy image as a working A: drive and thenunmount it when I don't want it any more, with outrebooting the PC.This way I can work on the Boot floppy while I amat the notebook and then use NERO to make a bootableCD out of the floppy in the fake floppy drive. Then I can takethe bootable CD to my wife PC just to test it. Oh yea, I am using Windows Xp Home SP1Thank's For Your Time And Responses In Advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyDeNCiTy Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highspeedmac Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 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 avirtual A: drive on my Notebook PC. So I can Mount A FloppyImage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyDeNCiTy Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Oh My bad... yes I did mis-understand... I'm sorry.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highspeedmac Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 No Problem Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 i don't get your questionbut let me reply as far as i understoodok go grab virtual pc or vmwarethen 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyfrog Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 You can use WinImage to open, extract or add files from and create floppy disk images if that is what you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highspeedmac Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 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 FloppyDrive in Windows Xp. Thanks Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highspeedmac Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 I think I found what I am looking for. Virtual Floppy Driver:http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#topAgain, sorry for not explaining myself Correctly Before.And Thank you for your help and Suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSage Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highspeedmac Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Didn't know USB Floppy drives existed! Good to know, will get one myself soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 probably bc u never cared about having a usb floppylast thing i'm gonna put on my usb's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pup Posted April 17, 2004 Share Posted April 17, 2004 @AaronXPName 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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