GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator Simulator Review Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 19 янв 2015
- One of the best purchases! It solved my issues with flopy disks failing over time.
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**IMPORTANT IF USING WINDOWS 10** When you open each "disk", it will not show the name, ie. h:/001. So you need to set the programs compatibility to Windows 7 and set to Administrator. Then it should work fine!
needing one of these for work and wanted a tutorial. first video I see is Phil again. Awesome stuff
You have no idea how helpful your videos are. My cousin dug out his old AST Adventure and we got it working, and the bug bit me so I salvaged some old parts from my girlfriend's dad's basement and got my own DOS rig going in a noisy old office machine. Now I'm on my way to building one from the ground up.
Just got one! Can’t wait to set it up with floppies for booting/installing software on thin clients that I am mucking about with. Thanks as always!
Hey Phil; Thanks so much for your content. It has been very helpful in putting a couple of retro systems together. I purchased a GoTek and had all the same problems with Windows 10 and V2 of the USB Floppy Emulator software. Installing on XP did the trick and works as you describe. I did install on a root directory and pointed the backup and disk directories there. Thanks again.
I use one of these in an old Haas CNC machine and I could never figure out how to access more than just the first virtual floppy until I watched your video. Thank you!
Thank you Phil for providing the software download that can't be found anywhere else. VERY much appreciated.
excellent video, very clear. If only all youtube vids were this easy to follow!
And thanks again phil! Got the gotek emulator going... i was being clueless on how to make this work
Thanks Phil, I just used this on my Super Socket 7 retro PC and it worked great!
Got me rolling on this 486SX. My eternal thanks. It's been a long road getting this industrial unit up on all four legs.
Formatting goes fine, but when I try to open up a floppy image, it opens Documents and doesn't redirect me to the correct path, so I can't access any of the floppy image files. Any ideas on how I could fix that?
Gotek floppy emulators have evolved a lot since this video was made, the latest revisions now come with an integrated little OLED display and a rotary dial which makes image selection super-easy. Costs a bit more, but totally worth it. Moreover, you don't need any special software to manage your floppy disk images any more with the recent versions of FlashFloppy firmware (I used v3.14a which is a stable beta build). Just get a USB flashdrive, something small so as not to waste storage, format it as FAT32, chuck as many bootable floppy disk images on it as you want and insert into the Gotek. You don't need to worry about file naming and folder arrangements. Choose the image you want with the rotary dial, the OLED screen will show you the filename for easy identification and that's it, it just works. Couldn't be simpler. I've tested on my vintage Compaq PC Pentium III machine using MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 98SE, OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach, BeOS 5.03 and various bootable Linux floppies and it works flawlessly. You can configure for other systems through jumpers and the FlashFloppy config file, but the defaults are optimal for use on an IBM PC.
The tiny OLED screen even warns you if you plug in the floppy cable in the wrong orientation! That's actually really helpful.
AFAIK no they don't. That's a mod from the community :) So if you buy such a unit, someone has modified it and makes a profit :)
@@philscomputerlab Yes, of course, and so they should for extending functionality to such a vastly more usable level.
Hello, I try your perfect manual for my Roland XP50, but every time when I put USB to keyboard says not supported format. Do you have any advice? Thank you so much.
I have put the jumpers where required. I have done the format of a 1GB stick and have 100 floppies showing in the software. Roland xp50 still says unformatted disk if you try to do anything with it. I have not done the link between pins 1+2 which I saw on a video where someone installed into a G800. Any clues?
Thx alot for doing these videos. Been looking forward for this one!
Wish i had this when i was messing with my old compaq deskpro xl as it doesnt have the software to change bios settings on the motherboard but on harddriver or 3 floppy. Lucky for me i notist this After i had formated the drive on it... fun time to find those files And geting them to 3 floppys that worked.
Keep up the great work!
Just a question Phil. I have successfully flashed my Gotek emulator. I will be using it in my Roland G-800 synthe keyboard so do I need to install any other programmes into my Gotek for it to work in the keyboard? (any additional firmware or software)? Utube user Cellelar goes through the process of flashing the Gotek and I did do the steps, but when he started talking about Amigas and Atari's I paused as I am preparing my Gotek to go into my Roland. Another video on Utube goes through programming the Gotek for use in keyboards rather than Amigas or computers. (Bangers and Chumley-Take the Fear out of the Gear) is what their Utube site is called. I am just not sure if I need to do what they are outlining or if it has already been done? Thanks!
You made one of the best explanation for this flappy drive
Have you had any incompatibility with USB sticks? I had one working, formatted another from within the software, disks open fine but when going to write them, I get a "path not found" type error.
This is exactly what mine are doing. They appear to format perfectly, but when I'm going through the video and imitating things on my end, I get the exact "the system cannot find the path specified" error when trying to access 1 of the 100 'disks'...
If I save something and it says disc full should I be able to just hit the right switch to continue saving to the next floppy after I have formatted it ti multiple floppys?
I've got one in my Rohde & Schwarz UPL 16. But I haven't figured out how to properly prepare the USB stick. I can format the drive in the UPL with DOS 6.22, but when I write to it, it tells me there's not enough space. When I load the stick on a Windows PC, it's blank.. more work to do to make this usable.
Thanks, the damn software is the only reason this thing has been sitting in a drawer for 2 years. Could never get it to work. Wanted to try it tonight again since my 386's floppy drive finally failed. Thanks for linking that other software! Worked great.
Thank you Phil for the great tutorial. It saved me . All the best.
@Phil I just bought a Gotek SFRM72-FU-DL emulator to replace the FDD on my Roland W30 workstation. One drawback I've noticed is that it's only possible to put 99 files on the USB stick. I assumed that because the Gotek had a 3 digit display up to 999 would be possible. Do you know of any possible mod to overcome this handicap? Thx.
excellent amount of effort going into each of your video's, nice bit of tech!
Looked at this video for a tutorial on using a floppy emulator. This was a demonstration of how much you know about it and was very much over the heads of anyone looking for simple direction.
ik heb general music wk 4 keyboard and i instaal gotek usb floppy emulator but it still says the floppy is not formated can you format your usb with your mac to and how?
How do you know which model to purchAse? Does it depend just on the number of pins your motherboard/cable has?
I can't seem to succeed and I have 2 goteks...one with display and button, the other one whitout those. No idea what I'm doing wrong, I've successfully wrote the first 3 slots in the USB stick through the floppy emulator software (tried dos 6, dos 3), but when I plug the gotek in the pc (through an external case) the leds light up but i get "boot failure"
So I had a look at Ebay for one of these, but I found dozens of varations. Including one for "Embroidery Machine". What is the difference between all of these, which one should I get. I have a '99 Pentium 3 and am looking for a replacement for the floppy drive (the one I got is unreliable).
Thank you so much for explaining how to use this! When I bought mine online, the documentation (or lack of) and the shitty software it came with made the prospect of using it more of a pain than a help.
QUESTION: if i want to still use a external USB powered Floppy drive to pull up all my old material on my old floppy discs. Can i plug my externally floppy drive into the emulator and it pull up the info on the floppy disk?
Splendid thing; I want one for my 98 SE computer's resurrection! Does anyone know if the recommended software for this will run happily through 'WINE' or 'PlayOnLinux' on a Debian 9 Linux machine? If not, are there adaptions that will run on 98SE? Those are the only two PC OS's that I've got, and I don't want to buy, much less 'wrongfully acquire' later versions of windows if it can be helped!
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Pete
hi Phil, how did you capture the boot screen and those DOS screens seamlessly? What capture device were you using?
This seems like a great idea. I'll probably be looking at picking one up at some point. I feel like the best way to keep up with which floppies on are a given usb drive is to keep a simple .txt file on the very first floppy, and just keep a nice running list of what's on the rest of the drive.
Great tip! Just make the first floppy dos bootable with edit.com + qbasic.com/exe and editing is right at your fingertips too.
How do you handle Installation Disks? I have some that ask for Disk 2, but because the name doesn't match what the install program is looking for it wont read from the disk.
Thanks for tutorial and heads up. Got one recently and works great. No more clunky drives and dodgy discs to worry about.
Awesome :D
I have had an old inop 486 for decades, thinking that someday I would get it running again. This week into my lap fell an additional THREE 486 computers that have various problems. Thanks to your videos, website full of data and resources, and some ebay purchases, I hope to be getting three of the four back in action. I'm pretty sure the mobo is dead on one of them.
Anyway, thanks for doing what you do! MUCH appreciated!
+James Hanna That's awesome, thanks for sharing :D
Can they be used to convert/transfer 2-DD (double density) floppy disk data into the USB?
Hi: I just picked up a Gotek USB floppy emulator for the Roland S-550, when I power up the unit (while keeping the 2 emulator buttons pressed, I get the firmware version and after a second or two the emulator display shows 000, even after a minute of holding the buttons it doesn't change to b0.0 to flash the emulator with the boot file.Has anyone had a similar issue and know how to get past it.
Thanks
Hi Phil, Thankyou for the great video. I have just bought my first Gotek off ebay (SFRC922D ver 2.14 firmware) I have followed your video instructions and all seems ok, until i get to running the USB stick on the Gotek in DOS 6.22, all i'm getting is the E34 error code on the gotek screen. any help/advise would be greatly appreciated, many thanks
By the way, as a general rule on disk drives, pin 1 is always on the side with the power connector. You can look on the PCB for Pin 1, but that's a LOT of work especially if the drive's already in the system :)
Great instructions. I was stuck installing it on my mpc 2000 but this got me through.
Hello, I bought a S950 not too long ago with a GOTEK floppy emulator installed. I keep getting the error that my disc isn't mounted and it must be formatted. Do you have any clue to why this is happening? The best conclusion I could come up with so far is that the ribbon cable could be loose, but I want to be sure before i go ahead and open it up.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Any idea how to set it up to be used together with an existing 3.5 inch drive? As in drive A:\ and B:\
Can you please start from the beginning what's the bame of the program because my usb didn't work on my keyboard
Great vid Phil, thanks for making it. The process is more involved than I was expecting, but I guess it makes sense to require software to manage the special formatting.
It's much simpler if you get two GOTEKs. One internal one (this one), and another external one (white model, has a USB port at the back). Then you basically have an internal Floppy and a USB Floppy drive and you can easily transfer files between old and new without software.
@@philscomputerlab great idea there! Thanks for the tip. :)
You can use that floppy emulator software without the drive to put stuff on, and you can use it on the gotek, correct?
Does anyone know the jumpersetting for an old EMU ESI2000 sampler? It keeps asking "Please insert Floppy Disk". The emulator is recognised as a floppy drive. 3 USB sticks are correctly formatted with IPCAS
Thank you for your tutorial! It helped me a lot. :)
Does anyone know how to read the volumes on OSX? I have one of these drives installed into a Korg Triton and I can save data onto the USB drive, but if I then insert the USB drive into my Mac it doesn't recognise any volumes
Does this work on an MPC 2000XL? Also, on the 2000XL, would I be able to store projects on partitions larger than 1.44MB?
Can the emulator be switched to emulate a 720k drive for older machines?
just Picked one up Phil, excited to put it to good use.
Wat is type van de Gotek USB convertor voor Technics KN 6500
I just got one for my Roland E96 keyboard but after installation I put some midi files on a USB and it is not working pls help
This may have already been answered, so if so I apologize. I recently got a Gotek USB floppy emulator (internal ). I was able to format the USB stick for 1000 1.44mb floppies. My question is, how do I get the contents of the floppy(s) from it's source to a partition on the USB stick? Do I image the floppy, then "burn" the image to the partition? Is there any specific software to use, and what OSes should I run it on? Lastly, is there any specific steps for handling copy protected or bootable floppies? Thanks for any help you can provide me !!!
Hi friend, how are you? I'm trying to do this scheme, I use a Yamaha SU 700 but it's not reading the WAV format, do you have any suggestions?
Hello Phil. Thanks for you video. I am trying to load midi files on the USB to be played on my Yamaha Keyboard. I watch your video very closely on how to load files on floppy000 and everytime I save it, I keep getting errors. Am I doing something wrong? TIA
i couldnt figure out why batch manage tool v1.40, was giving me this error "the system cannot find the path specified". found out that only happens if you try to use floppy disk number 000, if you use any other floppy disc, the error doesnt happen. i hope this saves some frustrations for anyone else.
Wanted to let you know that your video helped me a lot. One question I have that I don't know if you can answer is how do I save a file to the USB floppy if the unit is not in a computer? Mine is in a piano and when I save to the disk I don't know how to save it so I can see it.
Got my gotek off your link. My 386 system didnt recognise. Led powers on and pin 1 ribbon connected correctly. What should be the jumper settings? Mine has 2 and the manual is semi helpful. Thanks
Which model of gotek you used? Mine didn't even detected. What jumper settings are for dos
Keep up the good work. Always looking forward to your next video.
Thanks :)
Is there a way to make each 'Disk' a bigger size? Like for My Super UFO SNES Floppy backupper it can support 1.6MB. I'm hoping for even bigger emulation aswell if possible.
I'm trying to install USB Floppy Emulator V2 v.1.40i on Windows 10 64-bit, I get the "QH_UFDD \InstallSFD.bat" error. There is no such file and Google is no help. Help me please!
Anyone know if there is a usb generation requirement for the flash drives? Like can you use a brand new one or does it need an older drive?
When I type DIR. It keeps showing me the same directory when I change the nr on the Gotek. I'm clueless on how to solve it.
Great video here . I’ve just put one of these on my 20year old CNC machine replacing the floppy drive but I get errors and the machine gives me a can’t read from disc messages. What do the jumper settings do? I have G code files and DXF files on my usb. Any help here would be fantastic 👍🏼
nice video, thanks Phil! got my GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator today and it works flawlessly :)
Another super helpful video, just finally got around to buying one of these after having my 1000th or so non readable floppy. The gotek is awesome, and the recommended software in this video is as well.
Awesome :D
Hi man, thans. I have a problem. I just recieved installed thsi and the computer is not booting. Is a Pentium 4 with windows XP. I doubt it is about the setup in bios cause I cant see any image at all when the floppy emulator is installed. SO i was wondering If it could be matter of jumper possition. I installed the floppy emulator without touching the jumpers, asthey came from fabric, so do you think I should change anything? or any ideas what I should do? Thanks in advance man
hi Phil thanks for this great tutorial.. I could use your help a little bit.. whenever I click save on the image it says that it cannot find the specified file and all of a sudden the file i copied is vanished.. cannot seem to figure out what i am missing despite following your video? any idea what I could be doing wrong thanks
Very good review! I have been wanting one of these for my Amiga 1200 for a while (I know it needs modified firmware), but for now, I'll just stick to buying one for the good old Pentium 200MHz :)
Hey everyone i seen on another video,you can format your usb drive on system start up with usb drive in the its port,hold the 2 button on the right in friont at the same time & it will format the drive without any software!! Hope that helps! Um im ordering like 3 asap!
can't find this version of the floppy formater program all i have in the disk is 1.3 and it is not the same
Hi can anyone pls tell me how to get to 001 on the Gotek Emulator? I'm only getting 100 or 200, or 010 or 020 etc. ( The one's digits are not showing). I followed this tutorial and managed to get some files on my flash drive for virtual floppy 000,001, and 002, etc. I am trying to use this to play back midi files on my Korg 01W fd, so I press the "DISK" button but it goes as far as saying Loading Files, but it never gets "completed". Thanks in advance.
Every time I try to open one of the file folders my documents gets opened instead. any idea why?
I installed the software to my 64 bit windows 10 but whatever I have done I couldnt make it work. I gave admin rights, used with compatibility ran as admin but I couldnt even format the usb.
I get always access is denied...
I highly recommend Folder Axe for use w the Gotek, it generates sub-folders (subdirectories, whatever) from a single folder and it’ll do it by size, say 1mb or 720kb, which makes loading files to the Gotek a breeze! Worked magic on all my Sierra GOG downloads and now they’re ready for use on my 486 :)
Great video. I'm looking at putting the software emulator with a usb external 3.5 floppy drive on my Win10 pc and the actual emulator in my xp and /or 98Se pcs. Does this seem like a reasonable plan to you? Many thanks.
Great video, thank you! There remain a few open questions, though. 100 floppy images will take up about 144MB space on the USB drive. What about the space left? Can it be used in windows? What file system is on the USB drive after being formatted for the emulator? Can the system somehow handle multiples of 100 floppy disks on one USB drive?
While he showed 100 floppy images, the floppy emulator can do 1,000 (000-999) floppy images on a usb drive. If you have more floppies than that I don't think swapping to another usb drive with another 1,000 floppy images is going to bother you any - you're already well accustomed to swapping 1,000+ floppy diskettes.
Can anyone recommend a Usb floppy emulator software for Mac? I have Os 10.15. Thanks
I got a hold of a Compaq Deskpro 286e, my first PC that I got in 1994.
This will be a really useful piece of kit.
6:25 & 6:45 I can get to. But at 7:03 when I try to click on 'open', it gives me an error (no matter which number I try & this is my 4th USB key I've tried) - "Batch Manage Tool" error of "The system cannot find the path specified." Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks a million for the links, the walk thru, etc!! I'd have been lost!
Thank you for making this video. I was struggling on how to use this device.
Hi aggain, while im waiting im trying to use the batch manager.
But whit out sucess , after i format and creat every floppys i press open and its not going to the virtual floppy number that i select , it opens mine documents directory.
Can u please help me.
PS: english is not my native so sorry for the writing =$
doubleclick on the floppy and i navigate to a whole different folder. i cant write to any other disk than 0 and only by getting a crash of the format program. completely not workign for me...
We're are trying to use a Miditemp with a Gotek USB Floppy Disk Emulator. Now we have two problems: 1) We can't connect the Gotek in the proper way. We tried all possible solutions and variations with jumpers, flatcable or config files. Miditemp doesn't recognize the Gotek. 2) Even if the Gotek displays the correct number of images of floppy disks on the 4GB USB stick, Miditemp doesn't see the midi files in those images. Not sure what software (Windows 10) to us for making images and putting files in those images. Can anyone help us with (step by step) instructions, software, links or whatever? Thanks.
What is maximum capacity (limitation) for USB memory stick? I heard, the capacity should not be more than 4 GB. Is it true? thanks
Very good tutorial, Thanks so much for doing this.
These look so cool. The use of them going forward maybe not too much as the older stuff becomes non existent. I'd love to still have some of the older hardware still available to me.
Thanks for the nice manual, works great!
Biggest USB size the program can recognize is about 4GB (with my 8GB stick it shows 3,42GB), but doesn't matter because 100 floppys only need about 150mb.
The first disk ist available in the windows explorer as removable flash drive :) (so it can be written very easy without the program)
+Fire Phoenix That's good to hear!
I'd like to have one on my Roland XP80, only question is -
if all internal electronic components can withstand that high read/write speed and not burn out
That doesn't make any sense. They will only read and write as fast as they are designed to.
Just a little tip for those having trouble flashing their Gotek, I was using my Windows 10, went through all the steps, kept coming up Gotek not found, undetected etc, so i tried various USB to USB cords, still no luck, then tried a Mac USB to USB, (female to male), and Wala..my Gotek is now flashed successfully, go figure! Thanks for this great video Phil...
Hi there
Is the process the same for a musical keyboards? Cheers
Cheers Phil very useful video. Out of interest if I wanted to use the Gotek on an Amiga do you know if its just a case of changing the jumper setting?
No idea, I work with PCs, not Amiga.
Thanks for the info, just picked one up
Hi Phil, Any chance you've got the software for a mac?
Hi I have a problem, the emulator software that work fine under Windows XP , don´t work under Windows 7 and now I can´t built the 100 units partition on the usb stick, IPCAS SFD GOTEK, both one and the other don´t work; The system send a message that says "the program its imcompatible", You can help me? Thanks