Sep 21, 2019  Hi I'm running windows 10 and have just purchased a 3.5 inch USB floppy disk drive. The computer can finally find the unit but cannot read the inserted disk. The message I get is that A: is not. Rslogix 500 installation and crack create Virtual floppy drive windows 10 64 and 32bit Real Working - Duration: 4:57. Computer Geek 17,735 views.

Title says it all. I am looking for some software that will allow me to mount a floppy disk image (*.img) as a virtual floppy drive...similar I suppose to mounting an ISO image to a virtual optical drive.

I have tried a few things but nothing seems to work.

Edit: I am using Windows 98 (...old, I know!)

2 Answers

I have used Virtual Floppy Drive in the past. Im fairly certain it supports .img files.

Floppy Disk Image Windows 10 For Deployment

Try FileDisk (also comes bundled with WinImage):

FileDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks. A console application is included that let you dynamically mount and unmount files. An example of use for this driver is if you have made plans spending the weekend writing a RAID driver for NT but find you are short of disks. FileDisk can also use CD/DVD images.

Windows 10 Floppy Disk Driver

FileDisk will use sparse files as disk images if the underlying file system supports it. A sparse file is a file where suficiently large blocks of zeros aren't allocated disk space. To see how much disk space a file actually uses right click on the file and choose Properties. If you for example create a sparse file of 4GB, mount it in FileDisk and format it to NTFS, it will only take up 24MB on disk but look like a normal disk of 4GB. When you copy files to it the used disk space will automatically increase.

Usage:

Floppy Disk Image Creator

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