XP doesn't recognize 1.65M floppies

[Maureen Goldman]

In preparation for transferring over files to a different computer, I
put some smaller programs on floppies (lots of them). Some years ago I
had used a program that expanded the capacity of floppies, which
worked fine for Win98. When I went to copy my programs onto the new
machine, however, XP Windows Explorer was not able to identify any
titles on the 1.65M disks - that is, it appear as though these disks
are blank. No problem with standard 1.44M disks.

I used a Win98 boot disk to start the machine, and it can "see" the
various programs. However, in this ersatz DOS environment, it is
unable to copy them because the C drive isn't recognized.

Is there any way to get XP to recognize the contents of the expanded
floppies in order to copy the programs, or FauxDOS to acknowledge C?
I'm not sufficiently computer-comfortable to switch over my hard
drive. Otherwise I'm going to have to dump the contents from the 1.65M
disks into a folder in the old machine and start filling smaller
floppies. I know this doesn't sound like a hardship, but it took a
long time to get everything ready.

Thanks.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Maureen;
Check with the manufacturer of the application if there is a newer
version or an update for Windows XP.
Otherwise you have to redo it on 1.44 floppies or get a friend to help
move the hard drive over while the data is copied.

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"Maureen Goldman" > wrote in message
...
> In preparation for transferring over files to a different computer,
I
> put some smaller programs on floppies (lots of them). Some years ago
I
> had used a program that expanded the capacity of floppies, which
> worked fine for Win98. When I went to copy my programs onto the new
> machine, however, XP Windows Explorer was not able to identify any
> titles on the 1.65M disks - that is, it appear as though these disks
> are blank. No problem with standard 1.44M disks.
>
> I used a Win98 boot disk to start the machine, and it can "see" the
> various programs. However, in this ersatz DOS environment, it is
> unable to copy them because the C drive isn't recognized.
>
> Is there any way to get XP to recognize the contents of the expanded
> floppies in order to copy the programs, or FauxDOS to acknowledge C?
> I'm not sufficiently computer-comfortable to switch over my hard
> drive. Otherwise I'm going to have to dump the contents from the
1.65M
> disks into a folder in the old machine and start filling smaller
> floppies. I know this doesn't sound like a hardship, but it took a
> long time to get everything ready.
>
> Thanks.