Copy files from a hard drive to a floppy drive

With a properly designed floppy and the right cables, you can copy all the data on one hard drive to another with little trouble. The scenario Assume you have a computer with a single GB hard drive.

This drive contains a single partition and a Windows 98 installation. You need to replace this drive with a new GB hard drive, but you don't want to lose any of the files or settings. In short, you need a way to copy all the data from the old GB drive to the new GB drive so you can then just swap them out.

Create a bootable floppy First, you must create a bootable floppy disk that contains all the necessary programs to prepare the new GB drive and to copy the data. Defrag the old drive and connect the new drive Fully defragment the existing hard drive, and then shut down Windows. Because diskcopy makes an exact copy of the source disk on the destination disk, any fragmentation on the source disk is transferred to the destination disk. To avoid transferring fragmentation from one disk to another, use the copy command or the xcopy command to copy your disk.

Because copy and xcopy copy files sequentially, the new disk is not fragmented. To use floppy disk drive A to copy one floppy disk to another, first switch to the C drive and then type:.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Diskcopy A: B:. This will take f ew minutes, but will tell you when its done. File names and extensions. Many file names have an extension after the name.

A quirk in the OmniTurn software is that when you do a directory from the Automatic or Disk Operations Menu, it will ignore any file with an extension, and not display it. For example, if you wrote a program using MasterCam, and saved it to disk, it may save it with an extension. A file called pipe would get saved as pipe Doing a directory will not show that file.

You can load it from the Automatic mode, as long as you remember to add the. However, you may rename it, and get rid of the. Syntax must be correct! Rename pipe Do not use wildcards with the Rename command! EW is the built in text editor in the OmniTurn software. It is handy for making changes to the Prm.

These should NOT be changed unless directed to by a qualified technician or the factory. To change the Prm. EW prm. And the file will be loaded, opened and you can make then save your changes. This is the same program used to write and edit programs from the Automatic Menu, so the commands are the same. Harddisks and Ram Disks RAM random access memory is memory space located on memory chips on the motherboard of your computer. Click Here. Home About Us Why Us?

San Diego Store — Irvine Store — Can you do this service? Do you know anyone in the Phoenix area who does this service? Hi Joe, We offer zip disk extraction services at our locations, and can place the files on a flash drive for you.