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USB Floppy Drive not working in Win7 Ultimate x64
Hi guys.
I'm new to the forum but I've read through this thread ( USB Floppy Drive driver error ) and posted there as well but no response as yet, but it's an old thread so hence why I'm making this one.
I've a problem with getting hold of a vista sfloppy.sys file though. Can anyone tell me which version of vista I need for it / how to get it / or simply attach the file to a reply?
I've just finished trying the last suggestion now (installing xp vm and running the floppy as a virtual drive) - but it says the same messages that windows 7 does. Even if it did work it seems a little redundant to have to install our work software on a vm just to use a floppy drive.
The messages I get are as follows:
When I double click the drive in my computer:
The disk needs to be formatted. (Even if it works fine in a normal drive it will say this).
When I click format in the message above it says:
Windows cannot format the disk.
When I try using command line format it does the following:
Insert new disk for drive B:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is RAW.
The new file system is FAT.
Verifying 1.44M
(Then it starts at 0% and after about 5-10 seconds displays the next line)
Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.
At least it's more informative than the windows formatter (which is useless for floppy disks anyway in my experience).
The floppy drive shows up in my computer but NOT in disk management.
I'm doing this on my PC at home which is running the same version of windows as our work computers (Windows 7 Ultimate x64). All the computers are consistent in their error messages.
Really need to get this working because I work with fairly dated industrial machines that only read floppy disks and we've just purchased a new PC which does not have the floppy IDE port on the mobo. If we can't read & write to floppy disks on the work pc there is no point in even having it and we will have just wasted $600 odd dollars.
Also, our old PC (which has a normal IDE floppy drive) is becoming unreliable due to age and overheating - hence why we spent the money on a new PC in the first place.
It's worth noting that the manufacturer of the industrial machines we use does have a USB adapter that you plug a flash drive into and put the other end (which is a floppy disk) into the machine but they want $600 for that too and we think that's a little unreasonable. Also, a newer machine that uses flash drives instead of floppy disks will cost at least $70,000 plus taxes so we'd prefer not to have to buy one!!!
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
bioNuke