How to Add a Floppy Drive to a Vista Computer

submit to reddit

Submit Your Tip

How to Add a Floppy Drive to a Vista Computer – This is a place for the community to provide tips and advice on How to Add a Floppy Drive to a Vista Computer. This topic was created by Amielle Lake and the tips are provided by the community. The tips you add here can be your own or referred from another site. The best tips are then ranked at the top when up-voted by members of the community.

Votes

Tips

1
- Vote
Tip 1
Removing floppy drive icon from My computer and send to menu More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by dmtr 007 | permalink
Vote
I don't have a floppy drive and still my computer shows floppy drive in My computer as well as in Send To menu [Right click - >send to-> Desktop or Floppy drive] So how do I remove or hide this

For further reading: http://superuser.com/questions/204812/removing-floppy-drive-icon-from-my-computer-and-send-to-menu ^[1]

1
- Vote
Tip 2
Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows 7 or Vista More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Boudewijn van Rijnsoever | permalink
Vote
If you’ve got drives in My Computer that you never access, such as a USB Flash drive that you are using solely for ReadyBoost, a floppy drive, or a network drive only used for a particular piece of software, then you might want to simply hide the drive from your computer.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/hide-drives-from-your-computer-in-windows-vista/ ^[2]

1
- Vote
Tip 3
How to copy a floppy disk to a CD. More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Emma Carr | permalink
Vote
Steps on how to copy a floppy disk to a CD. Highly recommended if you have any old important floppy diskettes.

For further reading: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001368.htm ^[3]

1
- Vote
Tip 4
Format a floppy disk More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by PAUL JOVICK | permalink
Vote
Format a floppy disk so you can copy files to it.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/format-a-floppy-disk ^[4]

1
- Vote
Tip 5
Getting the Iomega USB floppy drive to work with Win Vista, Win 7, Win 8 More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by G Parrott | permalink
Vote
Getting the Iomega USB floppy drive to work with Win Vista, Win 7, Win 8. Here are some simple steps to get your Iomega drive to work with Windows 7 (or later)

For further reading: http://www.techgeekandmore.com/2009/12/11/hardware-getting-the-iomega-usb-floppy-drive-to-work-with-windows-vista-and-windows-7/ ^[5]

About Author

More by Amielle Lake

No more topics...

About This Topic

Category: Fun | 9 years, 5 month(s) ago

21.2k+ Reads

5 Tips

5 Votes

1 Likes

1 Saved

Contributors

G Parrott, Boudewijn van Rijnsoever, dmtr 007, Emma Carr, PAUL JOVICK

References & Citations

1. http://superuser.com/questions/204812/removing-floppy-drive-icon-from-my-computer-and-send-to-menu

2. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/hide-drives-from-your-computer-in-windows-vista/

3. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001368.htm

4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/format-a-floppy-disk

5. http://www.techgeekandmore.com/2009/12/11/hardware-getting-the-iomega-usb-floppy-drive-to-work-with-windows-vista-and-windows-7/