External usb floppy drive

[Daniel L. Snyder]

I have a program that was initially installed under Windows 98, probably
originally with VPC4. The program installed with a CD, but had to be
authorized with a floppy disk using an Authorization Manager that came
with the application. Worked fine and dandy.

The same application/Windows environment has been used successfully
through upgrades to VPC 6 and now 7 on a variety of machines including
an iMac and a Powerbook. Just did whatver MacOS upgrades, installed new
versions of VPC then updated the Windows98 VPC disk image without
reinstalling/unauthorizing/reauthorizing the application.

The problem is that I recently migrated to an intel based MacBook Pro.
I am using Parallels, but it apparently will run Windows 98 but the
Parallels Transported does not port Windows98. So I am using Windows
2000 (because that is necessary for some new applications) and
reinstalled prior software, and was able to move data. However I cannot
use the program that needs authorization. The iMac (running VPC 7) and
the Powerbook Titanium (running VPC 6) does not "see" my floppy drive
when running Windows98. Hence I cannot unauthorize the original
installations (my last authorization codes, none are left on the floppy).

Parallels running Windows 2000 seems to recognize the floppy drive - so
I am hopeful that I can successfully authorize the app. But I am stuck
on getting the older setups to see and use the external USB floppy
drives.

Is there any trick to getting these VPC 6/7 enviornments running
Windows98 to access my floppy drive?

Thanks.

[Fred Horvat]

Maybe you have to go into VPC Menu Bar on top and under DRIVES select
CAPTURE FLOPPY? It's been a while since I used a floppy under VPC.

On 6/10/08 1:45 PM, in article
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[Courtney Goodin]

This is because Windows 98 did not support Universal USB Disk IO drivers.
Each manufacturer had to write proprietary drivers to work with 98.
If your USB floppy drive manufacturer had Win 98 drivers that may work. But
the best solution is to use Windows XP. It has full support for USB2 and
Universal Storage devices via USB without any proprietary drivers.

----------Courtney

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[Fred Horvat]

True to a point but the Mac OS has USB drivers and has always worked for me
with my LS-120 Drive. Mac OS always has made that external USB floppy drive
look and feel like an internal floppy drive on all my Macs with Mac OS 8.51
on a G3 iMac all the way to current OSX 10.4.11 G5 PowerMac. Also with VPC
3 to current 7.03. This has been for any OS I have thrown at it.

DOS
Windows 98
NeXTStep 3.3
OpenStep 4.2
OS/2 Warp 4
Linux - many flavors
FreeBSD
BeOS
Zeta
XP
Windows 2000
And more

You may have to when running VPC in the menu select DRIVES and then Capture
Floppy.

Lastly you can always make an image of the floppy disk similar to creating
an ISO of a CD and mount that file. I do this for my Windows 98 Boot
Floppy. This way when I want to FDISK a drive or format it raw I use this
instead of hooking up the USB floppy drive.

On 6/21/08 10:56 AM, in article etbXI860...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,