2007-03-20 03:15:22 · 14 answers · asked by catfish 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I like to keep things simple. Find a friend or acquaintance who has a computer with both a floppy drive ( there are some of them left- they have not all died!) AND a CD or DVD burner. Then persuade them to burn the contents of the floppy onto the CD or DVD. It should be very easy, and solves your problem permanently. Best of luck.
2007-03-20 03:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by Tony B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you say floppy, I'm assuming you mean the 3.5" plastic disks rather than the much older 5 1/4" disks that are truly floppy. You should be able to either buy a floppy drive that you can connect to your computer via USB for very cheap. Or if it's a one time deal you can go to Kinko's (or use a friend's computer) and read the floppy drive then email the pictures to yourself. You can email the entire contents of a floppy disk because it's not that much data - under 1.5 MB.
2007-03-20 10:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by David G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Buy a floppy drive and a floppy cable. This requires that your motherboard has a floppy port on it. It may or may not. And your case may or may not have space to mount one.
2) Go to your local staples, office max, comp usa etc and see if they offer a transfer service from floppy to CD. A CD can hold the contents of about 400 floppies, so it might be good to get all your floppies together and copy all of em. You could also get a friend to do this.
2007-03-20 10:21:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yikes, that's not good at all. It would be horrible to lose pictures. I would recommend using a work or friends computer to copy the pictures to a more modern storage media. If you can't find a computer with a floppy drive you should be able to find a external drive at Staples of Office Max, and if not they are on eBay. The longer you wait the more difficult it will be to find such a drive, and the less compatible it will be with your operating system, so I would definitely recommend doing it soon. Best of luck to you! One other thing, I assumed that you are referring to a 3.5" floppy disk, if you are referring to the older disks that are literally floppy, then you'll have to find a computer buff who still has a old machine around. To do this I would recommend a small computer shop in your area. These are common in my area and I would imagine that there is someone around you who would at least have one in the back room.
2007-03-20 10:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by Bimmer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A floppy drive only costs about $20 these days, and they're pretty easy to install.
If you don't want to get the hardware, try finding a friend with an older computer, or try going to computer repair stores in your area. They'll usually have a computer with a floppy drive, and they can back up the photos to CD or DVD for you.
2007-03-20 10:19:34 · answer #5 · answered by mikah_smiles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will have to either go to a computer that has a floppy drive and move the data on the floppy onto a CD or flash drive. Or do to the store and buy an external floppy drive and plug that into a USB port on your computer.
2007-03-20 10:23:37 · answer #6 · answered by Linds 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean your floppy drive doesn't read the floppy disk anymore or you don't have a floppy drive ? If you don't have a floppy drive you can buy internal or external flopply drive (USB one for example). Probably you can go to a library computer with floppy drive.
2007-03-20 10:21:48 · answer #7 · answered by suriono 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very first advice : never trust floppies..
Well whether your PC is not reading your floppy or it is not at all recognizing the floppy drive? i am not clear abt this.
If your floppy is gone, PC wont recognize... You may use some softwares in this case to get the data from floppy...
like floppy repair... ( find in download.com) But i dont trust it...
If floppy drive is not recognized...
you might have disabled in BIOS settings... Check and enable floppy drive.. and check that proper powersupply/cable is set to floppy drive or not..
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2007-03-20 10:21:12 · answer #8 · answered by PC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could go to your local public library and use one of their public access terminals, which may have a floppy drive (assuming 3.5"); then email those files to yourself from that computer.
If you're talking about older floppies (e.g. 5.25 or even 8"), that will be a challenge; you'd need to find someone who has such a drive which they could either loan you, or loan the use of a computer with such to you so you could copy the files onto a different medium.
For that case, you could look to see if there are any computer user groups in your area, many have members eager to help with unique problems like this, and may still have the necessary equipment gathering dust in their closet.
2007-03-20 10:19:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could buy an external floppy drive. Or, you could go to a photo processing store and see if they can access the files on their own equipment and transfer them to CD for you.
2007-03-20 10:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋