For example bochs is a computer emulator, while VMware is a virtualizer. The definition of emulation and virtualization is pretty hard. I mean is this aimed to be a "practical" thread or a speculative "philosophical" one?To be honest this isn't a theoretical question or word game.
Should i use usb fdd or usb zip for windows 10 software#
Maybe it's really possible to "emulate" USB-FDD or USB-ZIP on software level with a normal device? The 'new' label's are much more logical to me, aren't them. On my own comp with a newer BIOS I can only boot a real USB-pendrive / USB-harddisk if fdisking/formatting as USB-HDD (standard way), otherwise it's not booting. It works well but somehow it doesn't work in all cases. Therefore there is an interesting project called makebootfat for multi usb standard booting. But you need to fdisking/formatting the device as "USB-ZIP" (this means basically in little words only with no partition table). On older BIOS USB-ZIP doesn't mean you can not boot up USB-pendrive / USB-harddisk. Newer BIOS can boot USB-HDD and USB-ZIP and USB-FDD. If I am right I recognized that older BIOS have only option to boot USB-ZIP. Talking about a USB-pendrives or USB-harddisks now. In this case the operating system shouldn't be able to see any difference from the emulated device compared with a real one. So either you buy a device with this feature or not. I suspect this real emulating can only be done on hardware / firmware level and is not possible for normal end users. Or "emulating USB-FDD" means (any device, such as this USB-pendrive) claims to be (real USB-FDD).
I think there is a bit confusion about the term "emulating USB-ZIP" or USB-FDD.įor me "emulating USB-ZIP" means (any device, such as this USB-pendrive) claims to be (real USB-ZIP).