You may be confusing to extract image file (*.img) which is a boot image disk. Now you can using virtual floppy drive. You can mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents -- view, edit, rename, delete or create files on a virtual floppy, format a virtual floppy, launch a program on a virtual floppy... almost anything you can do with a real floppy.
Disk Drive Virtual designed for Windows NT / 2000 / XP
More Information About this :
- Super FAQ: NTFS compressed/encrypted files cannot be mounted directly. It is intentional to avoid the Windows cache manager dead lock.
- Super FAQ: Current VFD can not create image from or save to actual floppy disk. Use programs like WinImage or RawWriteWin for that purpose.
- Windows XP Explorer shows virtual drives as removable drives, not as floppy drives. Also it shows a 5.25" floppy icon if a virtual drive is A: or B:, and a removable drive icon otherwise. I'd say it's a bug of the Explorer. Other properly designed programs won't have any such problem.
- Windows XP Explorer sometimes doesn't respond properly when you add / change drive letters of virtual drives. I think it's also an Explorer bug, because the same thing happens when I change drive letters of a hard drive, a CD drive, etc. Restart the Explorer or, if that fails, log off and log on again and the the virtual drives will be recognized correctly.
- Windows NT/2000 FORMAT.EXE can format the following media:
160K, 180K, 320K, 360K, 640K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M
Windows NT/2000 Explorer can format the following media:
360K, 640K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M
Windows XP FORMAT.EXE and Explorer can format 1.44M media only.
Use VFD.EXE or VFDWIN.EXE to format media with size not listed above.
- Windows 2000/XP Explorer's check disk does not work with VFD drives.
Use command line CHKDSK.EXE instead.
- Changing a virtual media between 3.5" and 5.25" does not update the drive type display of the Explorer. It's just cosmetic. Any programs which have to distinguish them should recognize the drive type correctly.
- Some programs (especially old ones) assume floppy drives to be either A: or B:. If certain programs don't recognize a VFD drive, try changing the drive letter to A: or B:.
- Windows 2000/XP sometimes assign conflicting drive letters, especially with removable devices such as USB drives and network drives. If a VFD drive suddenly becomes unaccessible, try changing the drive letter.
- Conflict with swapfs (http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/) is reported by Suzu. (unconfirmed)
- Some users have reported gradual system slow down and eventual lock up while copying a large amount of data to/from virtual drives. (unconfirmed)
Useful programs to accompany the VFD
- http://www.winimage.com/ - Windows program to create floppy image files from real floppy disks, extract files from image files, create empty image files, write the image files on blank floppy disks, etc.
- http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm - a Windows program to create floppy image files from real floppy disks, and vice versa.
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