So, over the last few days, I’ve had some issues with my convertible notebook. I’m not going to go into details other than I believe I have a bad hard disk…but in the troubleshooting process, I discovered a very cool utility called the “Virtual Floppy Drive.” Today, you will have a very difficult time finding a computer (notebook, really) that has an internal floppy…unless you specifically ordered it that way. Well, good news – the Virtual Floppy Drive will emulate any type of floppy media and create the appropriate drive A or drive B. It also has the ability to mount a floppy image. This is nice when you have that driver that requires a blank formatted floppy disk – simply load up the app, tell it to mount drive A as a 1.44mb floppy drive and away you go. I used it and then copied the contents of the new A drive to my USB drive. This is a great utility!
Download: Virtual Floppy Drive 2.1
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Sweet… says I.
Interestingly enough I see an add at the top of this article saying that I can buy 20 floppy disks, 3.5″ or 5.25″,for $9.95, What a deal!!! That means for the price of 100 CD-Rs I could have 30MB of space… man, I wodner if they do bulk orders, I’m all over this deal.
Wow – that is a great deal…lol No, seriously — I really wish vendors would just make the move and have everything available as an ISO. I don’t care if it’s only 2.5 Megabytes of data, I’ll gladly put it on one of my cheap CD-R’s, instead of wasting time with 2 floppies.