Problems With Floppy Copy
Fred, I'm fairly new to the Plus edition and have for several years been a Standard and decided to "bite the bullet" and go Plus because I believe in what you are doing, both, here with computer knowledge and what you are doing overseas with adopting. Thank you.
My question is: I'm trying to copy some floppy's over to CD's and have read your articles on doing them. However, some of my floppy's have files that I can't copy over or they won't let me copy them over. Any ideas how to get these files copied over??
I have several floppy's that are used to install older software. I have created a folder and subfolders that I've named DISK 1, DISK 2, etc and was trying to copy each floppy into it's own folder.
I have just about given up. My computer crashed and I'm using a laptop my son furnished that doesn't have a 3 1/2" floppy drive. I would like to copy some of the software over to a CD so I can put it on the laptop.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for an affordable subscription to a great newsletter. ---Lew Powell
Let me first suggest a different approach: If you lash up a tiny peer network (which may take no more than a "crossover" cable costing a few dollars), you can share the floppies, CDs and hard drives between the two machines, copying or running anything on one to the other machine. It'll also probably be a lot faster than funneling everything through the floppy. See http://www.google.com/search?q=peer+network+windows
As for copying to CD, you'll need to make sure that the PC from which you're doing the copying is seeing and showing you all files, including hidden and system files. http://tinyurl.com/qvbb5 . (If you're only copying the non-hidden and non-system files, you may be leaving important stuff behind.) Also you might name each folder on the CD with the name of the floppy's software "label"--- the name of the floppy as recorded on the floppy itself, regardless of whatever's on any printed label). Some installation software looks for the correct label when it starts.
Some older, floppy-based software may also employ copy-protection techniques designed to foil simple copying. Without getting off into a deep-geek tangent (yes, such copy protection can usually be bypassed), the simplest thing is again to share the floppy drive via a peer network and install the software that way.
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