- #USE IMGBURN TO CREATE FLOPPY IMAGE FOR BOCHS INSTALL#
- #USE IMGBURN TO CREATE FLOPPY IMAGE FOR BOCHS UPGRADE#
If you just want to move files, try Winimage. So, if running intel-based software from floppy disk images in a 32-bit Windows 10 environment is a problem for you, Oracle VM VirtualBox (at least at the time of writing) seems to solve it. Attaching a disk image in ImDisk Last word
#USE IMGBURN TO CREATE FLOPPY IMAGE FOR BOCHS INSTALL#
Close the above program and install and run the HP Drive Key Boot Utility. Select the Device and the File system from the drop down menus and click start. Not only can it read "PC-type" floppy images but also CD-ROMS and hard drives.įigure 2. Install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and run the program. It creates a virtual drive and assigns a letter to it. If you want to have a floppy drive image attached to your modern OS though and have software interact with it, ImDisk is a good choice. In fact, since I first published this, I've managed to get all these OS packages running in my VirtualBox:Ī Windows environment for every occasion! What if I want to just write files to and from a floppy disk image? MS-DOS seems to be the simplest OS that VM VirtualBox supports and there are no "Guest additions" or extension packs for it.but at least it provides 3.5 inch floppy disk support which is what I was looking for. Choosing a disk image in an MS-DOS machine in VM VirtualBox It's simple to use, intuitive and has floppy disk image support that handles *.vfd and *.ima formats, both of which I create and use with Winimage.įigure 1. VMWare Workstation, which was only available for 64-bit environments), and/or they didn't support floppy disk images. There are certainly virtualisation alternatives around, but many seemed too industrial from my kind of use (e.g. I tried various workarounds like this one, but they didn't work for me. Problem was, Windows 10 doesn't support Virtual PC 2007. In Windows 7 I would use Virtual PC 2007 to do this. I often need to run and or/check old MS-DOS software in floppy disk images.
#USE IMGBURN TO CREATE FLOPPY IMAGE FOR BOCHS UPGRADE#
The upgrade went smoothly except for 1 problem. At this point, a file called 'teaching.img' was created in my current directory and is ready to be used as an image file for a Bochs session. Just recently I upgraded one of my computers from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The following line should appear in your bochsrc : ata0-master: typedisk, path'teaching.img', modeflat, cylinders20, heads16, spt63. Reading Floppy Disk images in Windows 10 (and running the software within!) Introduction
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