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04-14-2006, 09:54 PM
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Program on three floppies
A friend has an old program that is on three floppies. Normally you would insert the first floppy, it would load the info, and then tell you to insert floppy #2, and then #3 etc. He may be getting a newer computer without a floppy drive. My computer has a floppy drive and a CD burner. I can easily copy and burn the info from the three floppies to a CD, or even just copy the info to a jump drive. But then how do you load the program to a computer ?
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04-14-2006, 10:36 PM
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Would suspect that you are going to need to burn them to 3 cds. Depends on whether the program will install with all 3 parts in the same location. You might try loading all 3 into a single directory on your hard drive and see if they will sequence in.
You could also look at the first disk and see if the installer is a batch file. If so, you could modify it to look at a place of your choosing. |
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04-15-2006, 03:37 AM
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It has been my experience that you can just place all the files on a cd and each time the install asks for the next disk just hit enter and it will locate the files on the active drive which will be your cd drive. If that doesnt work try putting the files fom each disk into a separate folder on the cd.
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04-15-2006, 08:28 AM
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sounds simpler if he is getting a new computer to spend ten bucks more for a floppy. They still are needed for diagnostics,etc. Just my personal thoughts.
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04-15-2006, 09:55 AM
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Thanks for the replies. I do plan on telling him to just order a floppy drive for the extra 10 or 20 dollars. Question--this an old Quattro Pro 4 program that I believe is DOS based. Will this program even run on a XP computer ? Thanks again for the info.
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04-15-2006, 10:19 AM
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This probably could be better answered in other forums. You might try a google search for the answer.
Some older DOS programs run fine, others crash and burn. Some work with major tweaking. |
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04-20-2006, 07:53 AM
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It should run okay in XP. You may have to run it in Win95 compatibility mode.
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