Virtual floppy failed to start the vfd driver

Can't really understand code, just some simple stuff. If someone can write me an example script it is greatly appreciated. Also I need to change the floppy during and installation, can I modify the script then and run it and it dismount the current image and remount the next image? Friday, July 17, AM. You have already given the obvious answer to your problem. Use VPC Sooner or later legacy support has to be droppped from the latest version.

For the floppy drive, that time is now. Yeah, I had that sinking feeling as soon as I saw there was absolutely no floppy support in the beta. From my perspective, that's a pity, and it will stop me from using the newest VM software, but I guess from the developers' perspective, this is probably champagne time! I guess my permanent workaround is to hang on to and keep using VPC Since that emulates pretty much everything that the new virtualisation code does I'm not interested in emulating anything later than XP x32 , that's the least-worst option.

Thanks for the honesty! Saturday, July 18, PM. What a complete snob. No that is NOT the obvious answer. You may as well be a Linux snob telling a person to go recompile their kernel for support of X or Y feature. You seem to be missing the core reason for Virtual PC in the first place. Namely legacy support. Also to simulate instances where you would need a floppy instead of a flash drive which still DOES occur in enterprise environments. That was done. Now I'm setting up a DOS 6.

And yet they left in COM support. The reality is that leaving the ability to mount either a real floppy drive or a virtual. Saturday, August 29, AM. You can attach a floppy, at boot time, by manually editting the VMC file, here is open Open your.

Monday, September 7, PM. I'm amazed that microsoft has hobbled, what was otherwise a great tool for legacy support. What is next? Serial ports? Parallel ports? I'm really surprised that you took a product to keep legacy systems running on modern machines, and started to kill it's ability to run legacy stuff. I'd really hate to have to buy VMWare, but I guess that is the 'real' solution going forward as clearly MS has no interest in Virtual PC as a legacy support role, but to just deal with the craptacular backwards compatability of Internet Explorer.

Wednesday, September 16, AM. Is that a floppy image file? I'd like to actually read the physical floppy. What application did you use to generate the floppy image? Friday, September 25, PM. You can always use winimage to create floppy images.

A better alternative as it would seem is SUN's virtualbox. They seem far more interested in supporting legacy apps then Microsoft. Saturday, September 26, PM. Seems odd for a product that clearly a key ingredient in legacy support.

I guess they really want to kill off anything older than Windows The only. So obviously since there is no such tag, there can be nothing within the non-existent tag. I don't know the basics of writing or running script either.

I have been trying all week to figure out how to mount a physical floppy drive, so that I can install two production programs that only install from a floppy drive. I have read all these posts and have tried what has been recommended, to no avail. Why does this have to be so hard for the average computer user? I installed Windows 7 64 bit, thinking that I could use the Windows XP Mode virtual machine to run my legacy production programs.

Boy, was I ever wrong. I can't imagine why Microsoft would provide a Windows XP virtual machine that doesn't have out-of-the-box floppy drive support. There has to be a number of computer users like myself that upgraded to Windows 7, thinking that the Microsoft Virtual Machine 7 would take care of us so we could run our legacy production programs.

Come on guys! That can't be too much to ask so that we can have floppy disk drive access. Thursday, November 12, AM. Look about halfway down in the Windows XP Mode. VMC file, you'll find the following. Of course, I agree this does not answer the question of how to simply attach to a physical floppy.

Thursday, November 12, PM. After opening this file again and closely looking at the contents, it mentioned the Windows XP Mode. I don't know why a search didn't find this. Using Notepad, I edited this file as described above by Matt Dean, and then saved the file. If I close the file and then reopen it in Notepad, the added text is still there. But after starting the virtual machine and then shutting it down, then the added text is gone from the Windows XP Mode.

Then I opened the Windows XP Mode virtual machine again and checked to see if the floppy drive mounted, which of course it didn't. So I then closed the virtual machine again. I reopened the Windows XP Mode. This added text stays in the Windows XP Mode. I am still getting the message "Please insert a disk into Drive A:. This is really strange. You may need to actually shutdown the VM instead of hibernate it. I know all the VM's have to be inactive. This works if I only need a single floppy image, but how do I change the disk when asked?

Thursday, November 19, PM. Well, this is only a band-aid, it's really simply not supported. Been there, done that, got the wasted afternoon and edited vmcs to prove it Then you'll have full virtual and physical floppy support, and you can even change virtual floppies on the fly.

I don't pretend to understand MS's attitude with the crippled and insanely limited "virtual" add-ins, but for folks like us who need a bit more than a pretty, shiny GUI, they're not going to do what we need them to. VPC is much, much more flexible, more robust, and it works.

I hope this helps. This is based on A being the drive letter of a genuine floppy drive. I stopped beating my head against that after figuring out the plain A solution. Sunday, November 22, AM. You might have some luck extracting the disk files using something like 7-zip if they are in a standard disk image format. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to use virtual floppy drive on windows 10 64 bit? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 2 months ago. Active 4 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 16k times. I want to install images of 1. These images come with a program called vfd. The install with vfd. The required vfd. This driver has been blocked from loading. I did this from a cmd. Any suggestions?? Improve this question. If the driver is not signed and you are using a bit version of Windows 10 then you will have to disabled driver enforcement to use unsigned drivers — Ramhound.

That is one route I'll follow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.