**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!

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.

needing one of these for work and wanted a tutorial. first video I see is Phil again. Awesome stuff

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!

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!

Thank you Phil for providing the software download that can't be found anywhere else. VERY much appreciated.

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!

Got me rolling on this 486SX. My eternal thanks. It's been a long road getting this industrial unit up on all four legs.

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.

@philscomputerlab

4 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@little_fluffy_clouds

4 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab Yes, of course, and so they should for extending functionality to such a vastly more usable level.

excellent video, very clear. If only all youtube vids were this easy to follow!

You made one of the best explanation for this flappy drive

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!

@philscomputerlab

8 жыл бұрын

+James Hanna That's awesome, thanks for sharing :D

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!

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.

@emprsnm9903

5 жыл бұрын

Great tip! Just make the first floppy dos bootable with edit.com + qbasic.com/exe and editing is right at your fingertips too.

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 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.

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.

Thank you Phil for the great tutorial. It saved me . All the best.

Great instructions. I was stuck installing it on my mpc 2000 but this got me through.

excellent amount of effort going into each of your video's, nice bit of tech!

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.

@philscomputerlab

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@radsdau

5 жыл бұрын

@@philscomputerlab great idea there! Thanks for the tip. :)

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 :)

Thank you for your tutorial! It helped me a lot. :)

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...

Thanks for tutorial and heads up. Got one recently and works great. No more clunky drives and dodgy discs to worry about.

@philscomputerlab

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome :D

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 :)

Keep up the good work. Always looking forward to your next video.

@philscomputerlab

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

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.

@philscomputerlab

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome :D

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 :)

just Picked one up Phil, excited to put it to good use.

nice video, thanks Phil! got my GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator today and it works flawlessly :)

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.

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)

@philscomputerlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Fire Phoenix That's good to hear!

As a retro computer owner these are indispensable! You have to have one nowadays if your going to own or collect a retro computer especially if your running the older operating systems.

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.

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.

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.

@dextar8433

3 жыл бұрын

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'...

Thanks for the info, just picked one up

Many thanks for the video, I have grabbed one to replace the failed floppy in my 386dx40. As an aside, The jumpers can be used for device address setting. I have seen the unit used in an Amiga and the jumpers marked s0 and s1 are used to select df0 and df1. PC uses twisted cable to set drive a: or b:Chris

@philscomputerlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris Hogan Ah, good to know, thanks :)

Great information Sir. Thank You

thank you for the great tutorial, it save me all lot of time.

THE RED LINE ON THE CABLE MEANS SOMETHING!!????!!! Great Scott!

I am using a GOTEK and the instructions came in chinese. Thank you for this installation file in english. much appreciated.

Thank you for making this video. I was struggling on how to use this device.

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?

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.

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?

Thanks for the help, it works like a dream.

How do you know which model to purchAse? Does it depend just on the number of pins your motherboard/cable has?

Can they be used to convert/transfer 2-DD (double density) floppy disk data into the USB?

hi Phil, how did you capture the boot screen and those DOS screens seamlessly? What capture device were you using?

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.

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

Didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I saw the keygen included with the software on CD. Fortunately the hardware is solid.

Thankyou! Now if you have any ideas on custom bigger partition sizes that would be great!

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?

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).

Wat is type van de Gotek USB convertor voor Technics KN 6500

your video saved me a lot of time and headache. thanks

@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.

this is ecaxtly what i need for my old Akai S2000 sampler - Thanx a buch for this video ,- :-)

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! Happy Holidays, Pete

Very good tutorial, Thanks so much for doing this.

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.

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

Wonderful tutorial!!I have Roland G800 synthesizer.Do you have a full tutorial how to set it for roland G-800?? (it would be grate.. )

Picked up one of these for my retro DOS machine last month and haven't been able to get this to work properly. I keep getting general read errors when trying to read from a USB stick in Win98/DOS. Sometimes it will show the directories in DOS, but will not format, read or write. I'm using the software Phil mentioned to format the USB. EDIT : I'm an idiot, my floppy cable was plugged in incorrectly on both sides 😂

@MikkelGrumBovin

5 жыл бұрын

we all been there ! 😂

@cd-lf8xm

4 жыл бұрын

Yep got that t-shirt too mate

@0flyswatter0

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same issue. Thought I had a bad mobo at first.

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?

@philscomputerlab

5 жыл бұрын

No idea, I work with PCs, not Amiga.

You can use that floppy emulator software without the drive to put stuff on, and you can use it on the gotek, correct?

Thank you Sir that was so helpful. Now I can save the midi files I compose on my Roland E-500 without problems. The disappearance of floppy drive (and floppy disk) was a bad dream for many musicians having old keyboard models. But that floppy emulator with that software saved the situation. Fast advance of technology !!!

@musadube1239

5 жыл бұрын

Hi there..I'm a big fan of the Roland E-500, can you please get someone who can sell it to me?

@musadube1239

5 жыл бұрын

you can just email me...PLEASE..

@nangosoda

4 жыл бұрын

Dude, is there any setting about its jumper for my Roland g800. I still don't recognize how to use that jumper because my Roland g800 don't recognize USB flash disk even I have format it to floppi. Help please

@rel375

3 жыл бұрын

@@nangosoda Sorry for being late to respond. Jumper settings are not the same for all Roland models. Roland agent told me that it didn't work at all with some models. Hopefully your g800 is not one of these. Anyway you have to try all probabilities you may have in your jumper socket until you find the right one. That's what I did. Just be patient and try them all. You may be lucky to find the right combination from the first few trials. Good luck my friend.

@rel375

3 жыл бұрын

@@musadube1239 Unfortunately I know only one person who still has the E-500 but it's not in good conditions. I'm so sorry for being late to respond. Just saw the message today. Please forgive me.

thanks a bunch for this video, i just received mine and it still has the crappy software. this video got me going.

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

Can the emulator be switched to emulate a 720k drive for older machines?

Does this work on an MPC 2000XL? Also, on the 2000XL, would I be able to store projects on partitions larger than 1.44MB?

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?

@killer2600

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

Hi there Is the process the same for a musical keyboards? Cheers

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!

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!

Which model of gotek you used? Mine didn't even detected. What jumper settings are for dos

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 👍🏼

I flashed mine with the hxc firmware so it can oerate in an Amiga or Atari ST

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

@AureliusR

5 жыл бұрын

That doesn't make any sense. They will only read and write as fast as they are designed to.

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

Installed one on my yamaha PSR-540. Great thing you kept the software available, since the website of the German company no longer exists (maybe a good idea to remove the link from your website ;-)). On my Win 10 machine, I had some issues with the software. Apparently, Win10 does not like it to put data in the Program Files directory. Everything started working as soon as I dedicated a different folder for saving the data. Too bad, it only emulates up to 100 floppies. Today, a USB stick would easily be capable to emulate a lot more, which would be convenient.

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!

Hi Phil, Any chance you've got the software for a mac?

Good luck ordering these from China. I ordered two Gotek floppy emulators from merchants (and these were given good reviews by other Roland Sampler users and both times they got lost in the mail. I'm not sure why it doesn't occur to them that their customers might actually WANT to pay a little extra for trackable and insured parcels. I went with the HxC option from Lotherek and it went without a hitch.

@nangosoda

4 жыл бұрын

Is there any setting about jumper for my Roland g800...?

Hi Phil, This may be of some interest to you. I was able to get a Kingston 2g Micro SD card to work in one of the USB pen type Flash card readers. Now I do not have to tie up one of my 64g PNYs. I'm doing a retro multi boot build using CF cards and Micro SDs as my HDDs. I have it running DOS/3.11/98/200Pro/XP on cards. Win 7 is the main O/S on a SSD. Having this now working on one of the 2g Micro cards, fits right in with the theme. Thank you again for pointing out the USB compatibility issue. It was the key I needed.

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"

Thank you very much for this!

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

Thank you very much. Greetings from Barcelona.

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?