Time for booting in to Linux an creating images from your floppies with DD or similar. If nothing else the media must be quite old and doing so should preserve them!
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:00 BST Dilwyn Jones wrote: >>> I have no floppy disc, so I've got no idea if a VM will allow me to access >>> the floppies or not. >> >> I've got a USB floppy as I have a lot of material on floppies and it is OK >> on Vista and Ubuntu (under VMware). But i'm told that W7 has no floppy >> support. Can anyone confirm this? >> >> Bryan H >Probably understandable - how many Windoze users (apart from QLers perhaps) >would want to use floppies nowadays? > >DD disk support vanished a while back on PCs - must get my USB FLP drive out >to see if it works as a HD disk on Win7 or not. > >If you look hard enough, you can get small (i.e. 1GB or so) pen drives for a >pound or two now, not to mention SD cards etc so floppies probably really are >redundant when you only occasionally want a removable portable medium. What do >others on this list think? > >Dilwyn Jones > > >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List >http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
