![]() ![]() I mailed a box of drives and such to myself in order to get some work done while I am in this limbo state, but unfortunately USPS managed to destroy just about every drive even with careful packing. Unfortunately this means that most of my equipment is still packed away in boxes which I don’t have access. ![]() Until then, I am still mooching a place to live from my folks. The long move is just about over, and as long as everything goes smoothly, I only have a bit over a month to go before I can start moving into the new digs. Sorry about that! So many moving parts in my life over the last several months. We’ll cover the options from easiest to most difficult.This release has been a very long time in the making. As a result, there are many semi-modern drives and solutions available. The 3.5-inch floppy drives held on as a legacy product long after their 1.44 MB capacity had become absurdly small in relative terms. If you have 3.5-inch floppy disks formatted for MS-DOS or Windows that you want to copy to a modern Windows 10 or Windows 7 PC, you’re in luck. This is the easiest format to work with. RELATED: Are Your Old Floppy Disks Still Readable? How to Copy Files From a 3.5-Inch Floppy Drive to a Modern PC Benj Edwards / How-To Geek You’ll have to figure out how to access or convert the data using emulators, such as DOSBox or other utilities, which is beyond the scope of this article. It might be locked in vintage file formats modern software can’t understand. Once you copy the data, you have to be able to read it. What we’re going to cover here-copying data from a vintage floppy disk onto a modern PC-is only half the battle. There’s a Catch: Copying Data Is the Easy Partīefore we begin, you should understand a huge caveat. Here’s how to access a vintage 3.5- or 5.25-inch floppy disk on a modern Windows PC or Mac. Eventually, they were replaced, and floppy disk drives vanished from new computers. ![]() Remember floppies? Back in the day, they were essential. ![]()
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