A digital friend who goes by the handle “alpha” uncovered a relatively obscure, but potentially useful, utility for Windows folks with software that’s stuck in the ’90s:
I don’t know about you, but in this day and age I hate it when a driver or a program demands to use your floppy drive in order to unpack itself or for a specific purpose during installation (SATA driver writers, I’m looking at you!) and all you want to do is get your grubby mitts on the files.
Pretty much none of my systems have a floppy drive on them – haven’t since the late ’90s – and while I have a USB floppy drive as a last resort, the physical disks themselves are pretty rare nowadays. so what are you to do when you need those driver files and the damn unpacker is demanding a floppy drive with no other option?
Up to the plate steps Virtual Floppy Drive, which allows you to mount a virtual floppy drive that you can create an image file to use or you can actually mount old floppy images to read straight off your HDD. This is similar to tool like daemon tools, but nowhere near as polished… but it gets the job done. 🙂
Uh… I still hate floppies, but I still love Floppy.
[tags]floppy disk, floppy drive, virtual drive[/tags]