Old program uses 3-1/2 inch disks New system has no 3-1/2

[Dave Kind]

I have a new system that dies nolonger use the 3-1/2 inch disk system. Is
there any way of installing a program from the old 3-1/2 inch disks? Can you
copy them to a CD-ROM disk? Anyone ever solve this problem I have?

[Jerry Heyman]

Multiple solutions:

1) buy a USB floppy drive
2) buy an internal floppy and add it to your system (floppy controller's
still exist on most motherboards)
3) find a system with a working 3-1/2 inch drive and copy the entire disk
to a file (using dd on Linux for example). Once done you can:
a) network transfer the file to the new system
b) burn a cd on the system, copying the file onto it, use the cd on
the new system

Hopefully this helps...

jerry
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[Dave Kind]

"Jerry Heyman" <je...@hobbeshollow.com> wrote in message
news:1641667.V...@unix.hobbeshollow.com...

> on Saturday 06 May 2006 10:03 pm, dk5...@hotmail.com (Dave Kind) wrote:
>
>> I have a new system that dies nolonger use the 3-1/2 inch disk system. Is
>> there any way of installing a program from the old 3-1/2 inch disks? Can
>> you copy them to a CD-ROM disk? Anyone ever solve this problem I have?
>
> Multiple solutions:
>
> 1) buy a USB floppy drive
> 2) buy an internal floppy and add it to your system (floppy controller's
> still exist on most motherboards)
> 3) find a system with a working 3-1/2 inch drive and copy the entire disk
> to a file (using dd on Linux for example). Once done you can:
> a) network transfer the file to the new system
> b) burn a cd on the system, copying the file onto it, use the cd on
> the new system
>
> Hopefully this helps...
>
> jerry

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Jerry thank's for the help.
DK