Annoyances.org
Home » Windows 95 Discussion Forum » Message 1166812526 Search | Help | Home
  
re: read 5.25 floppy disks
Friday, December 22, 2006 at 10:35 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Phil (1 messages posted)


The answer previously given regarding high versus low density is a good possibility. I think I have a high density 5.25 drive stored away. I'll take a look, you can use it to transfer the files. Should be no problem once you copy them off those disks.


On Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 5:01 am, Jeno wrote:
>I know this is a W95 forum but I have a serious need to answer a W3.1 issue. I was
>given a package of 5.25 floppy disks with important records that need to be accessed.
>I was able to locate an old computer with a 5.25 inch drive but I can't get it to
>read the disks. I get as far as properties and can see the files on the disk but
>when I try to open them I get a message that there is "no common point" for the file.
>My question is: exactly how do I go about accessing and displying the info on the
>disks? Everything I know about W3.1 is thru trial and error. Thanx


Written in response to:
read 5.25 floppy disks (Jeno: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 5:01 am)

There are presently no replies to this message.

All messages in this thread [show all]
-read 5.25 floppy disks (Jeno: Wed, Dec 6, 2006, 5:01 am)
*re: read 5.25 floppy disks (Keith Stanier: Wed, Dec 6, 2006, 12:25 pm)
*re: read 5.25 floppy disks (Abram: Mon, Dec 11, 2006, 8:43 pm)
*re: read 5.25 floppy disks (Jacob6601: Sun, Dec 17, 2006, 2:07 am)
*re: read 5.25 floppy disks (Phil: Fri, Dec 22, 2006, 10:35 am)
Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum

All content at Annoyances.org is Copyright © 1995-2008 Creative Elementtm All rights reserved.
Please do not plagiarize; redistributing these pages without permission is strictly prohibited.