If you still have a computer from the era when they all included floppy drives, then most likely the floppy drive is dead. Why? Because they are pieces of #^#@, and fill up with dust, and because they have a mean-time-before-failure equal to the time between your buying it and your needing it desperately minus 5 minutes (like when you have to use a “third party driver” to install windows on an SATA drive or similar and the setup of course demands it be on a floppy even though everything is on CD’s these days).
Well, this program won’t help you during Windows setup, but it could help you in other situations (which are also automatically stupid) where you may need the computer to think it has a floppy drive.
One good example is installing Asus drivers (for motherboards at least). Now I like Asus, but they are complete morons when it comes to drives and their website. Downloading anything from their website is slower than swimming to China and getting the hard copy yourself. Their motherboards have a great feature where you can flash a BIOS from a CD (and I think also the Internet once you have Windows installed), yet some of their drivers are executables which will only extract to a floppy disk. Talk about retarted, especially when it’s an ethernet driver.
In the case of my K8N-DL it was the RAID driver. I think in my PC-DL Deluxe it was something more annoying like the on-board NIC. In any case, it pissed me the hell off, but Virtual Floppy will save you when you have Windows installed already. It will create a fake drive that Windows and all stupid programs that demand one will see it as a floppy drive. You can fake a variety of disk sizes, too.
It’s indispensable if you like Asus motherboards.
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