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On 11/12/2017 7:00 AM, Ed Mc wrote:
On 11/1/2017 10:34 AM, Ed Mc wrote:
If I purchase one of the 3.5 USB external floppy drives available, would
I be able to access the files (FAT 32) on my old floppy's, using Windows
7? I do have an old XP hard disk somewhere. Not sure if it would
recognize the USB ports though. Thanks


****I received the floppy drive, which I bought online, and gave it a
try. Could see some files but could not activate them in any way. I
could see Icons of photo's but not the pictures. Sometimes I got the
'disk not formatted' error msg., or 'Not Responding'. Used on Win7 OS
and XP, same resuts.... Oh well, a $15 lesson learned.

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Ed Mc

When you said you could 'see some files' do you mean the were displayed
in the File Explorer?
What do you mean 'could not activate' them. What programs exactly, and
do you know if they are 32 bit or 16 bit?
Can you copy the images to the XP or w7 hdd and view them from there?

That's the test. Make a temp folder and verify you can copy the files
off the floppy to the temp folder. If that goes well and you wish to
keep the files save them onto something newer such as dvd or/and )better
to do both) backup hard disk ... may be only/last chance