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re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:50 pm Posted by cam (5 messages posted) no On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:45 pm, Stan wrote: >My Win98 system cannot read my Win95 floppies. Is there any way to get Win98 to >read these files? (shareware, freeware, settings, etc.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 11:54 pm Posted by Lee (243 messages posted) My win98se reads 95 install floppies just fine. Perhaps your 95 floppies can't even be read on 95? There isn't an OS specific problem to overcome reading different system's disk in general. Mac VS PC is a different issue than this one. Probably bad floppies is your problem. You could try it in boot to DOS mode which often works better with troublesome floppies. On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:45 pm, Stan wrote: >My Win98 system cannot read my Win95 floppies. Is there any way to get Win98 to >read these files? (shareware, freeware, settings, etc.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Friday, October 10, 2003 at 6:11 am Posted by phantom (5661 messages posted) What are the extensions of the files on the floppy?? On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:45 pm, Stan wrote: >My Win98 system cannot read my Win95 floppies. Is there any way to get Win98 to >read these files? (shareware, freeware, settings, etc.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Friday, October 10, 2003 at 2:26 pm Posted by Stan (3 messages posted) I used winzip for archiving and some .doc extensions. Most are .zip. On Friday, October 10, 2003 at 6:11 am, phantom wrote: >What are the extensions of the files on the floppy?? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Friday, October 10, 2003 at 2:29 pm Posted by Stan (3 messages posted) These are new floppies formatted in Windows 95 on a Toshiba laptop. The majority of the files are zip files. The laptop is gone now, but my desktop computer with Win98 says they are not formatted or cannot read this disk. I do not believe the floppies are bad, and I have had trouble in the past going from one computer to another with a floppy disk. On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 11:54 pm, Lee wrote: >My win98se reads 95 install floppies just fine. Perhaps your 95 floppies can't even >be read on 95? There isn't an OS specific problem to overcome reading different >system's disk in general. Mac VS PC is a different issue than this one. Probably >bad floppies is your problem. You could try it in boot to DOS mode which often works >better with troublesome floppies. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Friday, October 10, 2003 at 11:00 pm Posted by Lee (243 messages posted) I'm not impressed with 'new'. Been there, done that, same problem. Have you at least tried to copy the files in boot to DOS mode? DOS always does a better job of mounting a floppy especially when Windows says it isn't formatted. I'm somewhat of an expert on the subject - I regularly transfer Atari 8 bit files through the internet and my 2nd floppy (360k) to read directly on Atari 8 bit systems. This is no simple task as the 8 bit format is 256 bytes per sector. Windows will not work for this at all, but DOS mode does and perfectly too. XP uses 98 startup disk and I can not only make but boot MSDOS 1.1 and 3.3 disks on my system - what's incompatable? Because you have troubles with Windows formatted floppies doesn't mean you've proved that any systems are exclusive to each others floppies. Windows format=pooo bad. DOS format=thumbs up. Perhaps I should have stated that the floppies may in fact, not be bad at all, but just badly formatted by Windows? As in not your fault and not truely bad floppies - this is a Windows floppy driver problem and it only gets worse with win2000 and XP. Your troubles with floppy transfer will end immeadiately if you start formatting them in boot to DOS mode, I guarantee it. I remain hopeful that your files are NOT lost, but you will have to drop to boot to DOS mode to copy them to your hard drive. On Friday, October 10, 2003 at 2:29 pm, Stan wrote: >These are new floppies formatted in Windows 95 on a Toshiba laptop. The majority >of the files are zip files. The laptop is gone now, but my desktop computer with >Win98 says they are not formatted or cannot read this disk. I do not believe the >floppies are bad, and I have had trouble in the past going from one computer to another >with a floppy disk. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Win98 can't read Win95 floppies Saturday, October 11, 2003 at 12:43 am Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Did anyone think about the possibility they may be a compressed floppy? DriveSpace was very popular on Win95 systems. You may have better luck on the Win95 forum? JmC On Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:45 pm, Stan wrote: >My Win98 system cannot read my Win95 floppies. Is there any way to get Win98 to >read these files? (shareware, freeware, settings, etc.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum