to PC with NO 3-1/2 floppy drive? Old booking keeping program has floppys for install. Any ideas on what I can do? If I take the floppys home and burn a CD with folders, Disk 1 thru Disk 8, and copy ALL the files from the floppys to the correct folders, will it work? I know, add floppy drive or update software! I work for some very cheap people.

 

Put them all on a USB thumbdrive???

 

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$25

 

I'd copy them to a USB stick.

I've had the same problem & that's what I did. Or copy onto a network share.

 

I haven't built a computer with a 3.5" floppy drive in almost 10 years.

Try your library and see if their computers have 3.5" floppy drives, then copy all of your disks to either USB or CD. Or see if a friend has one with a a floppy drive.

Something else you can try, is to contact the company that made your software and see if they will send you out the same application on CD. You already have the license, so they should only charge you a small fee for the CD.

CanopyFlyer

 

This reminds me of the days when computer games would fit on two or three 3.5" discs.
when I was a kid I used to play Castle Wolfenstein on the P/S 2. I think that came on 2 discs.

 

I have a PC at home with CD/DVD/Floppy drives installed. I was asking WILL IT WORK to copy the floppys to CD?

 

I remember games on 8" floppys!

 

Your success will depend on the quality of the installation program. Some would check Volume Labels to determine which disk was in the drive. Some would hard-code A:\ in their path or always look in the root folder. Some would check the available drive space on the hard drive and overflow on newer, larger drives. I had that problem way back with Corel Draw 3.

You could try a virtual floppy drive: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

I see a lot of trial and error in your future.

 

Ah... memories of the "good ole" days...

You could just temporarily install a floppy drive on the machine if any of the above doesn't work...

 

Depends what the program is...

 

Quickbooks 4.0 & that's what scares me! The new version is only @ $100.00, I told you these people are CHEAP! And STUPID; pay me for screwing around and spend 3X more$$$. Go figure.

 

It should install if you put it to a CD as long as it prompts for the location of the next disk....Sometimes there is an INI file that has that in it.

 

My apologies, I read your post too quickly, plus the fact I'm getting over an illness brought home by my son from daycare. I wish he'd bring home something more innocuous, say like bubonic plague or SARS.

The answer is, it depends on the installer. Whiskers has a good idea. Look for an INI file and see if the locations are written in it. If so you may have to just play around with the entries and see if it will work. Otherwise contact the manufacturer of the software and see if they will send you a copy on CD. Most manufacturers will do that for you for a small fee.

The virtual floppy linked above by Anachostic is a neat idea. You could copy your disks to CD as images and use VM Back to open them.

All in all, I would not count on it working from CD if you copy the disk directly. The reason why I, or anyone else, can give you a definitive answer is because there are a lot of variables involved. We'd have to sit down with the disks and screw around with it either until it worked or we blew something up.

CanopyFlyer