[Coco] Making coco and dragon disks on a modern windows pc

[Robert Gault]

Stephen,

I'm using a WindowsXP SP3 system with a 3.5" floppy. VCC is v2.01 and WINDOWS\systwm32\fdrawcmd.sys 
is version 1.0.1.11 .

I don't know what the limit is on versions of Windows and VCC. There may be info on Simon Owen's 
site if it still exits.

Robert

Stephen Fischer wrote:
> Robert, what version(s) of Windows allows you to do this.
>
> I remember that MSFT stopped this at some point.
>
> I have a Windows XP laptop with a 3.5" drive that I think would work but I doubt my W7 HTPC(s) would
> allow writing 256 Byte sectors if I had a drive to install, the last 3.5" drive was killed years ago.
>
> SHF
>
> Note! I must change a BIOS setting to boot W10 32 Bit, and replace the system disk with different
> drive to boot W10 64 Bit after changing the BIOS setting.
>
> MSFT is getting very nasty to stop the computers being taken over.
>
> On 6/3/2019 3:58 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>> VCC can be used to work with real floppy drives on a Windows PC if you install the fdrawcmd.sys
>> (simonowen.com) .
>>
>> As an alternative, you would have to use Drivewire to transfer a .dsk image mounted on the PC to a
>> disk on your Coco/Dragon.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> rietveld rietveld wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. Can anyone recommend a program that will let me write. Dsk and. Vdk images to physical 3 1/2
>>> disks on my window machine
>>>
>>> I just picked up a 3 1/2 drive for my Tano dragon and would like to use real disks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.hi.
>>>
>>
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