VMware and virtual floppy drives

Did not know where to put this, but the thing is I don't have a floppy drive on my computers, which means that I can't do the ASR exercises. I can mount a virtual drive in Windows, that is not a problem at all, but the problem is that I can't get the virtual machines bios to read from that virtual floppy drive. Its only accesible in windows.

Does anyone have experience with virtual floppy drives and Vmware?

Btw, I can't use USB floppy drives in VMware, it won't load those drives at all.

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dynamik

If you edit your VM settings and go to the floppy drive, or simply double-click the floppy drive icon in the lower right, you can choose to have it use an image. You can either supply an image or have it create a blank one for you.

Dracula28

Thanks, I'm looking into it now.

Komkommer

If you have an old computer laying around (or from a friend), remove the floppy drive and cable and use it for your VMware computer. That's how I practised ASR. Don't forget NOT to use the windows explorer on the REAL computer you use for VMware. Or it will conflict. I haven't tried Dracula28's solution.