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bill
04-08-2004, 10:36 PM
how to do it

JustRalph
04-09-2004, 12:21 AM
what kind of disks? CD's....floppies....Hard Disks? Narrow it down a little.....

bill
04-09-2004, 04:29 PM
compare 3.25 floppy disks

bill
04-09-2004, 06:40 PM
sory meant 3.5

JustRalph
04-09-2004, 08:17 PM
in windows explorer you can browse them....

put one in and open "my computer" and then double click the "a" drive and check it out.....then close all windows and put the next disk in and do it again..


But....there are some caveat's (is that a word?) attached....

what are specifically needing to know? file size could be reported differently depeninding on when the disk was created, what machine etc......... what do you need to compare specifically and I can help you out.........

You could also do this in a dos window.......open the dos prompt

In XP go to "start" "run" type "command" and hit enter

at he c: prompt type "a: " hit enter and then " dir" and look at the files.....swap disks and type "dir" again....compare.......