Your welcome! Hmmm, a number of factors influence if there will be "any problems" - It you are starting fresh, and installing XP on a freshly formatted drive, there should be no real problems. Unless of course XP has problems detecting some of your hardware, etc. Most people experience a smooth transition between the two. If not, we are here to help!
You don't specify what system you will be transferring the files to, but if it has a free drive bay the easiest way to transfer the files is to install the hard drive from your crashed system into the new system and simply copy the files within Windows XP. Your old system is using the FAT32 file system, which XP can read without difficulty, so it will be able to access the files whether you are moving them from the hard disk or reading them from floppies.
grazer1
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January 30th, 2004 18:00
To copy files in dos type...
copy example.doc a:\ (where a:\ is the drive letter for your floppy drive)
you would have to be in the directory where the file exists tho. To switch directories...
List the directories avail by typing : dir
Navigate to a directory : cd directoryname
srcurran
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January 30th, 2004 18:00
grazer1
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January 30th, 2004 18:00
Your welcome! Hmmm, a number of factors influence if there will be "any problems" - It you are starting fresh, and installing XP on a freshly formatted drive, there should be no real problems. Unless of course XP has problems detecting some of your hardware, etc. Most people experience a smooth transition between the two. If not, we are here to help!
Denny Denham
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January 30th, 2004 19:00
You don't specify what system you will be transferring the files to, but if it has a free drive bay the easiest way to transfer the files is to install the hard drive from your crashed system into the new system and simply copy the files within Windows XP. Your old system is using the FAT32 file system, which XP can read without difficulty, so it will be able to access the files whether you are moving them from the hard disk or reading them from floppies.