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#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator driver#
#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator software#

Some sort of external power supply, as the GoTek/HxC will not be willing to live from the USB power supply.

Newer USB floppy drives no longer have this as I have learned from answers to this question. I don't think they're still made, so you would need to source one from eBay.

An old Floppy-to-USB adapter that was used to connect "real" floppies over USB.

A GoTek or HxC that behaves like a "real" floppy.

There are, however, components on the market that should allow you to build that from scratch: I don't think anyone sells something like that in one piece. The HxC devices mentioned by are probably what you want. And many motherboard chipsets already have a Super I/O chip or equivalent that acts as a floppy controller, and already appears in those locations. Really doing this would at least require a direct connection to the ISA or PCI/PCI-E bus.

#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator software#

It may be possible for a device or software to hook into BIOS routines that read/write to the floppy, but by the time you get to that prompt in the Windows XP installer, Windows is already running and not using the BIOS to read/write to devices. USB keyboards and mice look like PS/2 device to DOS and BIOS by a sleight of hand called "System Management Mode" - unfortunately this is part of BIOS/UEFI firmware and not easily/publicly available to operating systems to customize. So they cannot appear at the x86 I/O addresses where something expecting a traditional floppy would be trying to read/write. USB peripherals talk to a USB controller, but do not otherwise have a connection to the system bus. Reading and writing to these ports was how you talked to the floppy drive. The traditional PC floppy drive was an ISA device and appeared on specific I/O ports (0x3F0 to 0x3F6 IIRC).

#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator driver#

There's no way a USB anything can transparently emulate a floppy drive without a driver being preinstalled.