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Virtual Floppy Disk Driver

Version:

6.0

Release date:

Thursday, 10 May, 2018

License:

Freeware

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Lars Erdmann

Michael Fraenkel, Brian Martin, Daniela Engert

Provides a virtual Floppy Disk. Useful especially when dealing with diskette images, e.g. when creating bootable CDs, and to unpack floppy images from IBM fixpaks.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder.

Add:

DEVICE=x:\destination_folder_path\vfdisk.sys

to Config.sys and create a program object for FCTRLPM.EXE.

See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Virtual Floppy Disk Driver v. 6.0 (10/5/2018, Lars Erdmann)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/vfdisk60.zip
Virtual Floppy Disk Driver v. 5.0 (1/5/2017)	Readme/What's new	VFDISK 5.0: This is an update of VFDISK 3.0. If you have problems where vfdisk.sys fails to load on a system with many device drivers loaded then this update is for you. Also some cosmetics: VFDISK.SYS now registers with resource manager (run "rmview.exe /D"), it reports 1 media supported via its device driver header (if you look with Theseus). If it fails to load for any reason (invalid parameters etc.) it will do so silently without waiting for a key press to continue boot. Lars Erdmann
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/vfdisk50.zip	local copy