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Adding Floppy Disk Drive

You can add an existing floppy disk image, a new one or a real floppy disk to your virtual machine.

To add a floppy disk to the virtual machine:

  1. Start Parallels Management Console.
  2. Open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) and launch Add Hardware Wizard by clicking the (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Add (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) button Shared Folders Settings - Add Button in the bottom part of the dialog.
  3. In the (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Select Device (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) window, select (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Floppy Disk (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) and click (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Next (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines).
  4. In the (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Add Floppy Disk (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) window, select the resource for the new floppy disk and click (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Next (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines). The following resources can be used:

    Choosing Types of Floppy Disks

    If you want the device to be connected to the virtual machine automatically at startup, select the (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Connected (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) option. If you clear this option, the drive will be enabled in the configuration, but not connected to the virtual machine. You can connect it later when running the virtual machine.

  5. If you selected (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)New image File (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines), click (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Add Device (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) to complete the procedure of adding a new floppy image file.

    If you selected (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Existing Image File (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines), specify the location of the image file and click (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Add Device (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) to complete the procedure.

    If you selected (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Real Floppy Disk (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines), specify the drive of the real floppy disk and click (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines)Add Device (Editing Virtual Machine Configuration, Configuring Virtual Machines) to complete the procedure.