Floppy drive not recognized

[Pilule]

It is a real floppy drive with the 34 pins flat cable and the 4 pins power cable. Ejecting the diskette and putting it back in doesn't do anything. As a matter of fact, even with the diskette removed I still "read" drive "A". That's why I have to uninstall and re-install the driver every time I change the diskette.

[mpack]

By "real floppy drive" I mean one that is connected to the floppy controller of your host. Yours is a USB mass storage device. It is not something which, say, a DOS PC would recognize as a floppy drive. Who knows what emulated signals the USB driver supports?

Using floppy image files should bypass any such potential issues. The USB drive is still a useful tool for imaging floppies.

[Pilule]

M. Mpack,

I'm not sure I follow. My Floppy Disk Drive is connected to the host computer and it's a "real" Floppy Disk Drive not a USB floppy???
My issue, the reason I want to run Windows XP, on a Windows 7 machine, is because the program I want to use only works on a 32 bits machine and I only have it on Floppys.
What I thing I'm going to do is, on that same machine, transfer my floppys on a CD, in Windows 7, and try to load the program in Windows XP through the CD drive. I spent hours trying to get the floppys to work, on the guest Windows XP, and I'm getting fed up.

[mpack]

I don't think I can explain it any better. USB != FDC.

[scottgus1]

Probably your best bet is to turn those floppies into images on your host, which you'd then load into your virtual floppy drive in your guest, or try to extract the full program from the floppies into a shared folder on the host and access that folder in the guest.

[scottgus1]

It is a real floppy drive with the 34 pins flat cable and the 4 pins power cable.

I don't think Pilule's floppy drive is USB. LouKingJr conjectured something earlier about if the drive was USB attached. Sounds to me like it's a real, old-school floppy drive.

[mpack]

I don't think Pilule's floppy drive is USB.

Ah, good point. That would explain the confusion.

[Pilule]

Probably your best bet is to turn those floppies into images on your host, which you'd then load into your virtual floppy drive in your guest, or try to extract the full program from the floppies into a shared folder on the host and access that folder in the guest.

I'm a little green with some of the terms, what is an "image on your host"?

Thanks

[mpack]

Floppy image file, as has already been discussed.