On a small side note I did do an evmovecf from my USB drive to the C drive on windows 10 and that DID work. That's not my choosing, that is what the company has provided me. Now to go further since I hate anything sticking out of my machine, adding a second hard drive to the VM and moving the keys there does the same thing!!! Windows 10 with a small secondary hard drive with the keys installed on it works! And this is great news since our IT department will force us to use Windows 10 in the near future and our current version of Logix 5 is 5.20. So just to repeat that with reboots to verify, Logix 500 will work just fine with the USB plugged in.

What is ground breaking news to me is that and I can't believe I've never tried this before, I found out that just by having the USB key plugged in Logix 500 WILL see the keys and run just fine! So for Windows 10 just having a USB key with the master disk on it will allow legacy software to run! Having moved my purchased keys from a floppy to hd then to USB, I have made them portable. So with Logix 500 or 5 at ver 7.x and below you can use the master disk. It's an Enterprise VM which is only good for 90 days but allows me to try software on Windows 10 with dying a million deaths on a physical box. So I have a Windows 10 VM that I got from MS. With that said, and this is the truth, all software and keys I have, have been purchased by my company through Rockwell. This is in no way hacking or doing anything wrong, but let's face it, in order to get legacy Rockwell software to work sometimes we have to think outside the box. So I just wanted to update everyone on my findings.įirst off like others have mentioned if I'm saying something wrong please let me know.

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