Floppy Emulator Software Win 7 64

The main download page for Virtual Floppy Drive is. It supports Windows 7 64-bit. But there are comments on the Sourceforge page saying it does not work in Windows 7 64bit. One user (toantu) found a way and posted a comment further down. • First copy the content of virtual floppy folder to C: temp. • Download, install.

I recenlty gave him a new computer with windows 7 sp1 64bit (He was running windo. Home > Windows > Windows 7. Recommended Floppy Drive to Run on Win7 SP1 64bit. There are SD to floppy adapters that are direct replacements. There is also a USB to floppy emulator. Look on eBay. Do insure the original software remains available.

Right click and choose run with administrator, select enable test mode, reboot, run it again with administrator, select sign a system file, type in C: temp vfd.sys • Go to C: temp folder, right click vfd.exe, choose properties, go to compatibility tab, select run this program in compatibility mode for XP and also select run this as an administrator, select driver tab, select browse, select vfd.sys, press install and start. Go to drive0 tab, select change, choose A for your drive, OK. Now select open/create, click create and hopefully your drive will be activated in Windows 7 64-bit. You must run all of the above with administrator right by the way, and make sure you have 64-bit version of 2 files vfd.dll & vfd.sys. As was previously stated, ImDisk does work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I tried VFD, and it works great in 32-bit, but it does not work in 64-bit. I have even tried Critical0's fix and it doesn't work either, even though I am on an AMD machine. I am using a new six-core Black Edition CPU.

I tried ImDisk, and it works great if you follow the directions to the letter. Do not venture off his directions. Once you get the command prompt in administrator mode, you're good to go, and it will stay working from that point on.

Also, it runs it as a service, rather than via some icon on your desktop, I like that much better than VFD anyhow. This way, it's always there if I want it, and I can run more than two virtual floppies or even CDs/DVDs. I used to use VFD all the time, so I know what I'm doing. I am a computer tech and an operating system creator, which is why I needed virtual floppies. From there, I can take the floppy image and use it on a CD or whatever I want from there to boot off.

I'm new to the forum but I've read through this thread ( ) and posted there as well but no response as yet, but it's an old thread so hence why I'm making this one. I've a problem with getting hold of a vista sfloppy.sys file though.

Can anyone tell me which version of vista I need for it / how to get it / or simply attach the file to a reply? I've just finished trying the last suggestion now (installing xp vm and running the floppy as a virtual drive) - but it says the same messages that windows 7 does. Even if it did work it seems a little redundant to have to install our work software on a vm just to use a floppy drive. The messages I get are as follows: When I double click the drive in my computer: The disk needs to be formatted. (Even if it works fine in a normal drive it will say this). When I click format in the message above it says: Windows cannot format the disk. When I try using command line format it does the following: Insert new disk for drive B: and press ENTER when ready.

The type of the file system is RAW. The new file system is FAT. Verifying 1.44M (Then it starts at 0% and after about 5-10 seconds displays the next line) Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.

At least it's more informative than the windows formatter (which is useless for floppy disks anyway in my experience). The floppy drive shows up in my computer but NOT in disk management. I'm doing this on my PC at home which is running the same version of windows as our work computers (Windows 7 Ultimate x64). All the computers are consistent in their error messages.

Really need to get this working because I work with fairly dated industrial machines that only read floppy disks and we've just purchased a new PC which does not have the floppy IDE port on the mobo. If we can't read & write to floppy disks on the work pc there is no point in even having it and we will have just wasted $600 odd dollars.

Also, our old PC (which has a normal IDE floppy drive) is becoming unreliable due to age and overheating - hence why we spent the money on a new PC in the first place. It's worth noting that the manufacturer of the industrial machines we use does have a USB adapter that you plug a flash drive into and put the other end (which is a floppy disk) into the machine but they want $600 for that too and we think that's a little unreasonable. Also, a newer machine that uses flash drives instead of floppy disks will cost at least $70,000 plus taxes so we'd prefer not to have to buy one!!! Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.