i need to install drivers but i cant format my floppy disk

If you have access to a different machine with a floppy disk you could make the physical disk images and then copy them to a raw disk image afterwards. VBox has the ability to boot from a virtual floppy disk so once you have the diskettes in that format, it should be easy. They are in loaddskf format but I am fairly sure that this is just a raw diskette image with a header that you could probably strip off with dd and copy the rest to a raw floppy disk image file. There are floppy disk images of the boot diskettes on the CD that you have. First, I dont have anymore these floppy disks and secondly, my pc doesnt offer a floppy disk drive How can I install now OS/2? Any kind of help I would appreciate a lot Virtual Box offers OS/2 support, but for installing OS/2 I would need normally some floppy disks with the CD ROM drivers. I have an installtion CD for OS/2 Warp v4. I use the Virtual Box Software Version 2.1 on Linux Ubuntu Hardy Heron and I would like to mess around again with OS/2. had best see if his mobby will format and have both a Mouse & Keyboard (another area which is being slaughtered in favor of USB).Im new to the board, so I want to send all the virtualizers here many greetings from belgium Those who like to run diagnostic programs, etc. Yet their USB drivers to work in DOS mode are in themselves buggy. Good luck - and this problem is occurring more and more with the newer Motherboards which are trying to do away with Floppies anyway. Next boot into 'Safe Mode' if the Floppy will format in Safe Mode then it is Windows communicating with the Hardware but failing. If you can do two (2) things then it is the cause of a Window conflict with the motherboard, memory, controller, or the bios.ġst: boot up in a REAL Dos prompt with a Floppy. How to verify if it the cause of Windows or a bad floppy drive. I've seen dozens of floppies being ruined in one machine and most can be revived on another XP machine. Has nothing to do with the Floppy but it is either a driver conflict or address conflict. Microsoft blames the floppies too and people pass on bad data. Those same floppies can be formated in several other XP PC's. I've seen computers, Windows XP Pro to be precise in which you can't format a floppy. Reminds of going to a doctor, he blames 'old age'.

I need to install drivers but i cant format my floppy disk