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DOS学习入门 & 精彩文章（教学室） » To learn DOS, I want to install a floppy drive (please recommend for everyone)

Floor1　trshlhyk	Posted 2006-09-24 09:23
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In the past, when buying a computer, I heard that floppy drives had been eliminated, so I didn't install one. Since I came to this forum, I have liked it. Although I still know nothing about DOS now, I personally feel that it is extremely inconvenient to learn DOS without a real floppy drive, so I want to install one. I don't know much about floppy drives. Please help me recommend a good one (internal). Thanks in advance!

Floor2　redtek	Posted 2006-09-24 10:42
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You can also install a virtual PC and freely do experiments and play in the virtual PC~ : )

Floor3　swkong	Posted 2006-09-24 11:47
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Yeah, install a virtual machine. Now floppy drives are really obsolete and not useful anymore. You think learning to use a virtual machine is really convenient. You can arbitrarily mess around with the system and not be afraid of causing any damage. How great it is

Floor4　dmgldd	Posted 2006-09-25 04:40
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Can you simulate a CD-ROM and a floppy drive?

Floor5　IceCrack	Posted 2006-09-25 06:04
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What exists in reality, exists in virtuality as well

Floor6　trshlhyk	Posted 2006-09-25 08:29
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Today I installed VMware Workstation and found that there is an A drive. My host doesn't have a floppy drive. How can I load a floppy disk image downloaded from the internet for this A drive?

Floor7　MYS	Posted 2006-09-25 09:50
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Download a floppy disk image file, and you can also burn it into a bootable CD. That's what I did, and it's very practical, allowing you to do many things.

Floor8　trshlhyk	Posted 2006-09-25 10:12
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Originally posted by MYS at 2006-9-25 09:50: Download a floppy disk image file and burn it to a bootable CD. I did it this way, and it's very practical, allowing you to do many things. But how to burn a floppy disk image to a bootable CD? Hehe! Am I too noob?

Floor9　GOTOmsdos	Posted 2006-09-25 10:27
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You don't need to burn it into a bootable CD; just load the floppy image in VM.

Floor11　tianzizhi	Posted 2006-10-01 16:03
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Without using software, directly create a virtual floppy drive using the command `subst a: d:\abc`. Note: `abc` is a folder, just put the things that need to be in the floppy drive in it.

Floor12　GOTOmsdos	Posted 2006-10-02 01:08
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Virtual machines are the best environment for DOS beginners! (Can perform operations such as partitioning, formatting, DEBUG reading and writing hard disk sectors, etc.) [ Last edited by GOTOmsdos on 2006-10-2 at 01:09 ]