FDMgr - The Floppy Disk Manager
FDMgr, The Floppy Disk Manager, is a program to manage the floppy images of a floppy drive emulator. One such emulator is the SFR1M44-U100K GoTek 1.44MB USB SSD Floppy Drive Emulator which supports upto 1000 1.44MB floppy images on a single small USB device. ( 1000 1.44MB floppy images require 1.5GB of storage. ) The program supports the following functionality: 1) RAW reading, RAW writing, and formatting of a floppy disk. 2) Formatting a USB device to hold 1000 floppy images. 3) Saving or Loading the USB image of 1000 floppy images to/from a file. 4) Reading, Writing, and Formatting of individual floppy images on the 1000 floppy image USB drive. 5) The adding/editing descriptions for each individual floppy image saved to the 1000 floppy image USB drive.
FDMgr is normally invoked with 'Administrative Privileges' which allows the manipulation of the USB device which contains or will contain the 1000 floppy images. If the program is started without the appropriate privileges the following dialog box will open: If the 'Continue' button is selected then only floppy disk operations are enabled. Select 'Exit' and then restart the program with 'Administrative Privileges' to enable full functionality with access to USB devices. Once the 'Floppy Disk Manager' window is open only the allowed operations will be active. The main window: