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how to transfer floppy's to cd

16 years ago

I want to transfer about 300 family photo floppy's to cd. I've got Roxio Creator DE9 cd burner and using win.Xp with a floppy drive.

Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm in my late 70's and not as sharp as I once was, so not too complicated please.

Thanks to anyone that can help.

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bpgreen
16 years ago
If you have room on the hard drive, I'd first copy the photos from the floppies to the hard drive and organize them however you want, then put them on CD.

There's probably an option in Roxio along the lines of Create Data CD. That's the option you want to use for this.
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
16 years ago
What's a floppy? ( LOL )

Those are somewhat low res pictures I aassume.
As I remember, 1.44 mb on a floppy?

Do it soon. You may not be able to buy a floppy drive in the near future.

dcarch
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marievia
Original Author
16 years ago
I have 398 MHz 256 MB of Ram on this computer.

I'm showing capacity 74.4 GB . Used space 12.3 GB and free space 62.0 GB.

I have no idea what all this means except that my pie still has lots of pink and I DO know that means lots of empty space just don't know if this is enough for all these pictures.
bpgreen: Do you think that would be enough space to download all these pictures and put in a folder ?

Yes dcarch the floppy's are 1.44 mg.
I know what you mean about what are floppy's? I asked the grandkids and great-grandkids for help and they had no idea what I was talking about. When I showed them my floppy's they Wanted to know how to put that in their laptop's.
Guess I'm getting older by the day but I won't give up trying to learn. lol
Thanks to both of you for the quick and easy to understand response and hope I can get this done. That is my project for the day. Probably more like a week or month. lol

Thanks again.
Have a nice day.
softball_80
16 years ago
>What's a floppy? ( LOL )A coaster, of course!
kudzu9
16 years ago
If you have 300 floppies of 1.44 MB apiece, and they are completely full, that's less than 1/2 of a GB, total. That would take up less than 1% of the free space that's available on your hard drive. You would need to have more than 50,000 floppies to transfer before you had to worry about filling up your hard drive!
marievia
Original Author
16 years ago
Wow, that's amazing!! This computer age really is mind boggling. I'm glad I could get in on some of it.

The things I don't understand I can always count on nice people like all of you to help me.

Well, I'm off to get 'er done. lol

Thanks again.
owbist
16 years ago
Marie you have a long winded task ahead of you, each floppy can be counted on to take 2 minutes at least. So pace yourself accordingly. As stated you should create a folder on your computer hard drive to copy them all onto. Then drag them all to the CD player using Windows Explorer to burn. If you need detailed instructions just holler. One of us will give the the howto in simple to follow terms.
grandms
16 years ago
I went through this exact same task a couple of years ago, and it does take a long time. But just keep at it, and you'll get the task done. By the way, I had to buy an external floppy drive to get the task done since my XP computer did not come with a floppy drive. Now I have a nice stack of "coasters" and a floppy drive that I'll probably never use again.

And, I understand that CDs and maybe DVDs are on the way out, too!! So, in addition to having CDs of my pictures, I have them on my hard drive and also on an external drive.

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