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Virtual PC & USB floppy????
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nitram1203
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Jul 3, 2002, 08:35 PM
 
I am running Virtual PC (win95) on my tibook 400 and I cant install an application because the setup is on a floppy even though the program is on cd. The program requires that the floppy be installed in A drive while the cd is in the cd drive. I have copied the setup files over my network onto the tibooks harddrive but the setup wont complete because the setup files are not in A drive. If I buy a usb floppy drive, will Virtual PC recognize it as A drive? Any other ideas?
     
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Jul 3, 2002, 08:55 PM
 
The USB floppy would work, but if you're running VPC 5.0, you could just make a disk image and tell VPC to mount it as a floppy.
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Jul 4, 2002, 12:42 AM
 
I use a USB floppy with VPC and it does recognise the disk as the A: drive. However, it is desperately slow.

I have found that if the setup drives are encrypted then you will probably have a problem with either reading the disk or getting VPC to read it properly. You can try the disk utility to make an image and mount that image instead.
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