possible to assign drive letter A to HDD ?

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who knows ?
is there a solution fo virtual floppy based on HDD for programms that
require floppy ?

 

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You can do this with QSoft's ramdisk. I set mine to B:, but forget whether
the property sheet does this or you need to use regedit.

However, it shows up as Local Disk not Floppy Disk:
b: = \Device\Ramdisk
Media=Fixed, Sector=512B, Cylinders=8, Heads=2, Sectors=32, Total=256KB

"openmind.desk.pl" <80662270a@gazeta-dot-pl.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> who knows ?
> is there a solution fo virtual floppy based on HDD for programms that
> require floppy ?
>

 

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On 2005-04-29 12:28, openmind.desk.pl wrote:
> who knows ?
> is there a solution fo virtual floppy based on HDD for programms that
> require floppy ?
>

I guess it depends on what level the floppy access is done.
(I assume you use a windows based pc.)

There used to be a dos command SUBST that could make a driveletter
redirect to a directory but I haven't seen it in the later windows versions.

I think ASSIGN will change driveletters only, unless the program has
changed lately.

If you actually need to access floppy drive geometry, I don't know.

/Rolf

 

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Rolf Blom wrote:

> On 2005-04-29 12:28, openmind.desk.pl wrote:
>> who knows ?
>> is there a solution fo virtual floppy based on HDD for programms that
>> require floppy ?
>>
>
> I guess it depends on what level the floppy access is done.
> (I assume you use a windows based pc.)
>
> There used to be a dos command SUBST that could make a driveletter
> redirect to a directory but I haven't seen it in the later windows
> versions.

SUBST is present in Server 2003 and works fine, but it will not use a drive
letter that is already assigned to a device.

> I think ASSIGN will change driveletters only, unless the program has
> changed lately.

I don't believe that ASSIGN exists in any of the NT-derived Windows
variants.
>
> If you actually need to access floppy drive geometry, I don't know.
>
> /Rolf

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> who knows ?
> is there a solution fo virtual floppy based on HDD for programms that
> require floppy ?

VMware and alike give the best emulation.
But, which programs do you need it for?

Maybe SUBST or ramdrive are good enough?

 

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subst works fine for me

thank you very much, you really helped me

best regards, Piotr