Hello Garry, Thanks!!!
-wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 7:13:06 PM, you wrote: GH> Robert, GH> Yes, there is. GH> In a system having both kinds of drive, log onto the 5.25 inch GH> disk (let's assume it's A:), place a 3.5 inch disk in the smaller GH> drive (we'll assume it's B:), and use the command FORMAT B: /S GH> which will format the 3.5 inch floppy and lay in the boot track GH> with the needed files. GH> Then copy the contents of the 5.25 floppy to the 3.5 floppy and GH> you have a usable clone of that diskette. GH> ... or ... plan "B" ... GH> In a system where you have just the 5.25 drive and no 3.5 drive GH> but you can connect both to the internet: GH> Connect to FTP server tmonroe.com GH> user "public" GH> password "public" GH> download the file "pm4disk.zip" GH> extract from this zip file something called COPYQM.EXE GH> (the rest of the zip would be used if you wanted to GH> make a Partition Magic 4.0 DOS boot disk) GH> using COPYQM create an image of the bootable 5.25 disk GH> take this image to the box with the 3.5 disk and ... GH> using COPYQM burn the image to a floppy. GH> COPYQM has help for how to move images from one format to another. GH> It will run as a DOS process under Win 3.1/95/98, but it's best GH> to run it in DOS mode. GH> Variations on this theme would be to download the pm4disk.zip GH> and create an image of the 5.25 bootable disk, burn it to a CD, GH> then fetch it from the CD onto the box with the 3.5 drive, or GH> do the same with a ZIP disk, and so on. GH> If your configuration doesn't match any of these details, just GH> holler and we'll figure something out for you. GH> Regards, GH> Garry Hamilton GH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] GH> ----- Original Message ----- GH> From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GH> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GH> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:43 PM GH> Subject: [SURVPC] copy bootable disk, 5.25 to 3.5 >> I have an old operating system on 5.25" floppies that I want to >> install on a PC that doesn't have a 5.25" drive, or a bay to install >> one. >> >> Is there any way I can transfer the files to a 3.5" diskette on the >> first (bootable) floppy, so that the 3.5" diskette with be bootable? >> >> Thanks in advance, for any suggestions. >> >> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ >> -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ >> A business is as honest as its advertising. >> . >> GH> To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with GH> unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. GH> Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. GH> More info can be found at; GH> http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html --------------------------- To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
