If you use an interface program like the disk emulator, you will have to jump through the hoops of using that to manually load the files through their interface. It formats the floppy to act like there are numerous floppy disc spaces on the USB, that is what the numbers correlate to. Its also used to put the files on to the USB. The Program I use to format the USB is called 'CNC Floppy Emulation Manager Tool V3.500'. That way you can use the selector on the front to pick what disk you want to be using and treat it like a physical disk (drag/drop files, etc). My TM-1 floppy drive died so I replaced with a USB. Put one in the machine and one in your computer.
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You could spend a while trying various bits of software to make it work, but given your comment about not being a computer person, I think you would be better off buying a pair of new ones.
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The manual for CNC Floppy Emulation Manager Tool that th90 mentioned says that it requires 7mb per disk and is compatible with floppy disk images. The one I linked above uses slightly more memory than the size of the disk itself because it is just writing to memory locations and ignoring all the metadata. The windows gui will only let you pick the file formats it thinks are your best options.ĭoing some more research on a variety of these emulators, there appear to be several methods in use to encode the different disks. Rufus ( Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way) is a good program for testing out various formatting options on a drive. You can use these virtual floppy disks to read/write files from your equipment or from your computer. The included USB flash drive in the package has virtual disks, each with the size of a floppy disk. Worth a try, although it may not apply to your situation.ĬhipThe FAT16 vs FAT32 is something that is likely to trip you up as well. Nalbantov N-Drive USB floppy emulator reads/writes on virtual disks the same way as a standard floppy drive reads/writes on floppy disks. It will only accept smaller drives (I think 2 gig or less) and must be formatted as FAT (16, though not labeled as such) rather than FAT-32 or NTFS. ANGGREK USB Floppy Drive Set With CD, FDD-UDD26720 ABS USB Floppy Drive Emulator With 720KB Floppy Drive,Traditional Floppy Drive Replacement For Industrial Control Devices,Plug And Pull NEW 1.44 MB Floppy Disk 3. I have an industrial-type single-board computer running a DOS variant that does USB drives.