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Hello,

I have a problem I'm not sure anyone knows about yet. I'm on Windows 7 (yes, the pre-release) 64-bit and trying to use Virtual Floppy Drive. However, with both the GUI and the console version, I get the error:
At first, I figured it was because it's 64-bit, so I downloaded the 64-bit version of the floppy driver. No success however. Has anyone had this problem already and been able to solve it?

If there is no fix, I guess I could try to build it from source and try and fix it.

Thanks in advance,
Creature

Get dual-boot with XP, the best is TinyXP. Do your works on it

well
im not sure if it is the same, but i can use VFD (virtual floppy drive) on win 7 ( 32 bit)
the name of the once i use is: Virtual floppy drive for windows 2.1

i got some trouble writing, but after change permissions i could.

KMT dk

Well, I tried compatibility mode, run as administrator, the console version, installing the 64-bit version. All except compiling it myself.

Creature wrote:Hello,

At first, I figured it was because it's 64-bit, so I downloaded the 64-bit version of the floppy driver. No success however. Has anyone had this problem already and been able to solve it?

If there is no fix, I guess I could try to build it from source and try and fix it.

Thanks in advance,
Creature

I use Windows XP x64, and had the same problem. Eventually I found a Total Commander addon that comes with it's x64 driver, and can actually mount floppy images. Also you could try FileDisk64, but I have had issues with it when run from a non-administrator user account.

Or you can use something OS-independent, like mtools. Downside is that you don't get a GUI that way

Sounds like all x64 version of Windows have that problem. Maybe it's the requirement of x64 versions that EVERY device drivers must have digital signature.
And of course, VDF doesn't have it. So, stick with x86, or find a real floppy driver

I tried turning off the signature check, no success however. So I guess I'll just have to go with another solution like mtools or something command line since compiling VFD simply doesn't work (it seemed to me headers are plainly missing).

Hehe...

VFD website wrote:Note !!! This version works only on 32 bit systems !!!

The driver you need can be found here.

Hope that helps.

Well, thanks for trying but I already tried that , no success. However, I eventually found peace in using WinImage, even though it's commercial. The command line allows pretty much the same as VFD and it allows mounting (even though the latter doesn't work).

Too bad the Virtual Floppy Drive project is close to dead. It was a nice project and its source was public, so I hope someone will eventually create something similar based off the original source.

I actually am working on something that way.
I downloaded the microsoft DDK and i am working on a virtual flopppy driver and much more
(i am sick and tired of using those imaging tools whee you have to pay like winimage)
I am still at start since i am also doing some work on filter drivers but i will get everyone informed of the ongoing progress in due time.

get the x64 .sys for VFD here
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#64bit
backup & replace the original x86 .sys file

reboot pc pressing F8 during boot
select the last (bottom) option
"disable driver signing"

i still got the driver signing warn message
but...it worked for me

the other cmd prompt methods and group policy edit did not work

i found this solution digging through some technet articles
funny all the similar programs that were created having nearly the same install instructions
except one ms tech put this little blurb in their instructions
i think it was for an http virtual method
anyways...good luck...carry on

Well the topic is over one year old (in the meantime I switched to simply using mkisofs for CD's rather than floppies). I'm aware that there is an x64 fix, but IMHO a proper program/driver shouldn't require all kinds of workarounds to get it working. But then again, the project seems pretty much dead anyways.

I use it constantly under Windows XP 32-bit, so I can say it works as expected.

From what I understood, the workarounds in the source code for 64-bit compilation were just minor adjustments and bypass the restrictions of Windows to install unsigned drivers.

You can see the story here:

http://levicki.net/articles/stories/200 ... _patch.php

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#64bit

There's also a driver called IMDisk which can mount both floppy, hard disk and CD images.