Data Transfers I have 3 5.25" floppy disk (Apple IIE) that I would like to transfer the data to some other media; CD, 3/ 1/2 " floppy. Are you aware of any media that can be purchased or a company that can do this? Sincerely, School Based Tech Support Eva Williams [email protected]

Dirty cd/dvd? or in transfers from net

Your computer must have a floppy disk drive in order to read data. You have to buy one or borrow computer (from your friend maybe).

If its the full windows xp cd by booting it from the cd drive it will erase everything and ask if you want to upgrade or advanced install I think. Your correct in choosing the atapi cd-rom as 1st boot device. The cd should be in the drive on startup. IDE is the type of hard disk drive. I'm guessing the FDD stands for floppy disk drive which you might not have that many but you have that many bay windows available.

Put disk in, shut down computer, Start computer and it should give you the xp disk contents. Be aware of data loss though.

Update the latest drivers and you should be ok.

You can't retrieve data from those disks on whatever computer you're using it on. It apparently doesn't support the same format that you used save the data to the disks initially. I don't know what you can do, other than just trying the disks on any computer you can find that has a floppy disk drive until something works. Personally, I absolutely hate all the formats there are for removable disks. I have problems just like that with CDs all the time.
Well, good luck.

Maybe you had something with a magnetic field lying nex to the flopy drive and the code got mixed up and now the data is not readable.
You can try with raw extraction like in CD's. you need to have a program to recover the data without having to actually decode them. I used to use Recovery Toolbox for CD's, I'm sure there's a simular programe for floppy's somewhere on the net. after recovering, things worked on the computer, although the dish was never usable since the day I got the message 'can't read data'/'no data'/'not formatted' etc.
With floppy's I think that you'll never get the data from it by computer itself. I didn't get the data from the corrupt CD's, and they have much more advancer programs than floppy discs. so I recomend you find the program, get the data and throw the floppy away. If you have problems finding the program, post and I'll help.

The simple answer to your question is yes. The trick is getting the external floppy drive.

If you have one you should be able to connect it to you mac and simply drag the files on to your desktop. Depending what the files are you should then be able to still read them and save them on the mac in a new format.

It really depends on what format the files are and what app they where created in.

Floppy disks! I have not come across them for years! The process is quite slow!

Cancel the formatting procedure. It is optional.

Usually your local Fry's, Staples, Office Depot could do the job for you (or even a local PC Tech).
Good luck!

My computer has such a drive (120 Mbytes/disk).

As a "random act of kindness", I will read them, and burn the files onto a CD-R. Reply to this message, if you wish to proceed.