Writing disks

[Gary C]

Lots of info !

Thank you. Will cogitate, digest and when I am back at the museum, give it a go then report back

[dilwyn]

Windows 7 could practically read/write QDOS disks just fine. In Windows 10 that support has officially been removed, DS/DD is no longer supported. (Though it does still work if you have the proper drive and use the proper driver, with some possible caveats).

I have two USB floppy drives here which I use on my Windows 10 machine. One of them writes HD and DD disks OK. The other will throw a right hissy fit when given a DD disc. Discussing it here a few years ago, I remember that Ralf explained the difference to me, that he thought one of mine had an NEC chipset (from memory, I haven't gone back to check what he said) which could handle DD drives on Windows 10.

Basically, my experience with these drives confirms exactly what tofro said, just that I have been luckier in that I don't get the issues with resetting drivers that tofro has had.

Just that it's not as simple as "can Windows 10 handle DD disks?" - it depends as much on the drive type as it does WIndows itself. You might be lucky and have a drive which works, more likely you will be unlucky and have one of the types which won't.

But back onto topic, good luck to Gary C with what he wants to achieve.

[Gary C]

Not sure what I did, but using Qemulator I am successfully mounting a floppy and copying files from the HD to it and they now seem to run on the QL.