are there any to copy 5.25 over to 1.44 disks

Hi jack sewell: There are 2 ways I can think of to copy from a 5.25" floppy to a 3.5" floppy. First if you have one 5.25" you can setup as your slave (if you want to use 3.5" as master) & setup 3.5" as master in bios & dip switch settings on each drive (or slave). Then you can use File Manager to bring up both Drive a:/ & b:/ to screen (tile both screens) then drag & drop a:/to b:/ to copy all info, but you might need to label the 3.5" disks to match 5.25" disk. The other way is to first leave the 5.25" floppy in PC to copy to hard drive, you need to create directories on hard drive to copy you data to, example c:/disk1, c:/disk2 & so on. Then copy all the info like before using File Manager to drag a:\ info to c:\ directories. The only thing is that once you finish copying all the old 5.25" floppies to hard drive, then you need to change floppy to 3.5" to copy back from hard drive, only problem is that you can only copy the files to new floppies because of the directory names in c:/. If you drag the directory from c: to a:/ then programs might not work because they where writen to a:/ not a:/disk1. Try the dual floppy first install first, it should be easier, & remember to set the master/slave dip stiches on drives, plus setup bios to read the correct type of drives. Good luck. Z

I'm not sure what your current setup is on your computer, but on my old 486, i have both a 3.5 unit (A:) and a 5.25 unit (B:). With that simple configuration, copying a 5.25 floppy to a 3.5 is as easy as this: From the Dos prompt, type DISKCOPY B: A:

That shouldnt work as 5.25 and 3.5 disks are of different capacities Woof

I use WinImage 16bit version (www.winimage.com) to make images of all my diskettes 3½" & 5¼" for arcive purposes. Once this has been done I can change the target disk size from 5¼ to 3½ or whatever and write new diskette, even DOS Bootdisks complete with disk label with no problems. Once you have Drive A as 3½" Drive and Drive B as 5¼" Drive you should have no further problems.

Woof is right, Diskcopy does require disks of the same capacity. Another option is to use this command: XCOPY /E B: A: This will work for most jobs, but XCOPY doesn't copy hidden or system files, so it won't work to duplicate a system (boot) disk. Some games and programs may also include some of these files. Winimage doesn't have these limitations.

Note however that Winimage requires that you install Win32s to work under Win 3.x