How to Add a Floppy Drive to a Vista Computer

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Tip 1 - Removing floppy drive icon from My computer and send to menu

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by dmtr 007 | permalink

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]

Tip 2 - Hide Drives from Your Computer in Windows 7 or Vista

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Boudewijn van Rijnsoever | permalink

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]

Tip 3 - How to copy a floppy disk to a CD.

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Emma Carr | permalink

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]

Tip 4 - Format a floppy disk

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by PAUL JOVICK | permalink

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]

Tip 5 - Getting the Iomega USB floppy drive to work with Win Vista, Win 7, Win 8

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by G Parrott | permalink

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]