Emulate A: drive

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Hi all!

I have a notebook with Windows XP Professional.
This notebook has no A: drive.


I have a ( stupid ) program that needs to save a file in A: drive.

Is there any way to emulate A: drive, so the file could be saved on local
disk?


Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Hi all!

I have a notebook with Windows XP Professional.
This notebook has no A: drive.

I have a ( stupid ) program that needs to save a file in A: drive.

Is there any way to emulate A: drive, so the file could be saved on local
disk?
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The subst command may work for you. Ex:

md c:\a_drive
subst a: c:\a_drive
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Tom,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunelly, it does not work.
Any more ideas?


Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Joaquim said:
Tom,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunelly, it does not work.
Any more ideas?


Best regards,
Joaquim.
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How about buying a usb floppy drive? They aren't very expensive. Maybe
you even have a friend with one you could "test drive" first before
buying one.

Malke
 
Malke,

Thanks for your reply.
I don't want to buy a USB drive, because I don't want to carry more things
on my notebook bag and this situation only occurs from 3 months to 3 months.


Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Is there a setting or option in the program that will allow the default save
location to be changed ?
What program is it ?
 
Tom,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunelly, it does not work.
Any more ideas?
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Do you get an error? I need to know more on why subst doesn't work in
order to offer a better recommendation. The subst command gives you an A:
drive if done the way I mentioned. So there must be something additional
that the program needs.
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Sorry, I guess not it works fine for me. Then when you do not want the a
drive anymore you just delete the foder c:\a_drive
 
Ronk,

Thanks for your reply.
The program is from a bank and it does not allow us to change the location.


Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

I don't get any error, but when the program is saving the file, it goes
looping and never finishes it.
Usually, it saves faster - when there is a A: drive -.


Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

I don't get any error, but when the program is saving the file, it goes
looping and never finishes it.
Usually, it saves faster - when there is a A: drive -.
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It almost sounds like it is trying to directly right to the floppy drive
instead of using the API's provided by the OS. If that is the case, there
may not be much you can do other than getting a floppy drive.

There are some software utilities available that emulate a floppy drive,
you might have luck with one of them. I have never used any of these
personally so cannot vouch for their effectiveness or stability. If you
find one that works, it would be beneficial to all if you would post the
results back to this thread. Here are two that I have bookmarked:

Virtual Floppy Driver
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

FileDisk (near the bottom at)
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
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Tom,


Thanks again for your reply.

I've tryed your first suggestion and it works just fine.

The process is as follow:

1) I've downloaded the Zip file from:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

2) Created a Folder and extracted the files in to this folder:
vfd.exe
vfd.sys
vfdwin.exe

3) Then, we have to start the driver, from a cmd window:
vfd start

4) Mount the ( virtual ) Drive:
vfd mount <A_File_Name> /144

5) Then, we must format A: drive

6) That's it - now we have a A: drive.


Best regards,
Joaquim.
 
Tom,

Thanks again for your reply.

I've tryed your first suggestion and it works just fine.
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Excellent, thanks for the report on the results. I played with that one a
little after I posted and it looks nice. The win version has a clean
interface that is not too cluttered.
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Tom Porterfield said:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:27:10 -0800, Joaquim Macedo wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I have a notebook with Windows XP Professional.
> This notebook has no A: drive.
>
> I have a ( stupid ) program that needs to save a file in A: drive.
>
> Is there any way to emulate A: drive, so the file could be saved on local
> disk?

The subst command may work for you. Ex:

md c:\a_drive
subst a: c:\a_drive
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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Thank You very much for this information. I had an old game that I wanted to play and it only could be installed with a machine that had a "A" Drive. Your command worked perfectly. I am running Windows 7 Professional.
 
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