Hardware How to make USB show up as a Floppy drive

[Dominator211]

I have an old lappy and I recently upgraded the HDD but when I reinstall windows it only loads in 640x800 16bit color

I was able to track down the drivers but they require a Floppy disk to install. This PC does not have a Floppy drive and it only had a DVD ROM drive. Is there a way to emulate a floppy drive with a USB or force the drivers to install. and yes i tried cloning but nothing has come to my use.

 

[6adget]

Go to the laptop manufacturer website. then to support, then drivers. download the drivers from there. If your laptop didn't come with a floppy drive then they won't be required to install them from a floppy drive if you get them from there.

 

[gamesquest1]

I would imagine you could use something like this to mount the image file and have it show up as a floppy drive
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vfd/

 

[mollekemiel]

u kan use the subst command from a dos command prompt to assign a map to a drive letter

windows key + R -> type: cmd
now u have the command window

type: "subst a: c:\adrive"

remove with : "subst a: /D" (or after reboot its also removed)