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no 5 1/4 inch floppy
Name: jack Date: January 24, 2002 at 20:01:25 Pacific
Comment:
i need a five and a half inche floppy drive in order to copy this stuff for my bosses computer but i only have the cd drive and the 3 1/2 inch floppy on mine but when i want to copy onto a 3 1/2 it is says it can not handle it is there a way to bypass this crap or do i need to get them copied by a person with all 3 drives
Name: Doc Date: January 25, 2002 at 02:28:52 Pacific
Reply:
try using Laplink... Copies files between 2 computers
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Response Number 2
Name: david.peacock Date: January 25, 2002 at 08:58:09 Pacific
Reply:
You may need to explain more Are you telling me, there is one computer with no 3.5" drive, only a 5.25" inch drive, and you want to copy information from it.
You could use laplink, as suggested, you going to need to get a data transfer cable. You are going to need to run intersvr and interlnk, assuming you have dos on both computers
Or take the 5.25" disk drive out and replace it with a 3.5" drive, it can be done
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Response Number 3
Name: Jon Glenny Date: February 19, 2002 at 06:24:53 Pacific
Reply:
Hello Jack,
As David says, a little more explanation is needed. If I understand you correctly, you have a pile of 5¼" floppies which need to be copied onto 3½" floppies.
If you fit a 5¼" drive, this will become 'B' drive when you connect this to the extra plug on same IDE cable as your existing 3½" 'A' drive.
If using Windows File Manager, transfering the contents is easy. If using DOS, remember to use 'XCOPY' and not 'DISKCOPY'. 'DISKCOPY' only works when copying to floppies of the same type.
Make sure you fit a 1.2MB and not an earlier 720kB or 360kB 5¼" drive, because the earlier drives cannot read 1.2MB discs.
Good Luck.
Regards,
Jon Glenny.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jon Glenny Date: February 19, 2002 at 06:28:35 Pacific
Reply:
Oh! and remember to tell your BIOS that the new 5¼" drive is there.
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