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Originally Posted by lefty359
Can't use dosbox cause I can't get these prgms to my computer. I use an external floppy disk drive and EVERY 3.5 disk I have it says disk may need to be formatted. I'm wondering if it's because I have a 64 bit system?
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Floppy disk drives don't play well on newer systems, because the file storage is probably 16 bit, and many new systems only understand FAT32 and NTFS.
Try this first: Try moving the data from the floppy disks to your hard drive through the command line of DOSBox, via:
md c:\temp-folder-name
move F:\*.* C:\temp-folder-name
Then run Setup for that program.
Where F is the letter of the floppy drive and C is the letter of your hard drive. If that works, use a separate folder/directory name for each program.
If that doesn't work, take the floppies to a computer shop and have the tech transfer the data to a flash drive, again using a different folder/directory for each floppy.
When it's transferred to the flash drive, be sure to have DOSBox (and not Windows) install each program from the flash drive.
