Choose a program to emulate the floppy drive?

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IrkDesigner2012-11-19 06:35:24

IrkDesigner, 2012-11-19 06:35:24

It's no secret that in the homeland of elephants, many government agencies still use floppy disks to store key information. All my adult life I've used VFD (Virtual Floppy Drive), a free emulator that works with floppy images, to work with floppy disks. But I ran into the brakes of this software on certain PCs. Please tell me free analogues of this program?

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icobra, 2012-11-19
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There is such an option ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver FDD floppy drive emulator in Windows 7 there is also a link to the official page.

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ninacarrot, 2012-11-19
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Under Windows, as far as I remember, I used the share-ware version of WinImage. A floppy disk emulator was attached to it, but I just don’t remember which one - it seems to be just ImDisk. On Linux, I use dd, mount, and mtools to manipulate floppy images. If it's important for you to simply save the entire floppy, extract data from it, or modify it, then dd+mtools is fine (there are also versions for Windows).
If floppy emulation is required for DOS programs, qemu or dosbox can be used.