<td>Have a friend who owns an embroidery business. He has all of his artwork saved on floppies and all was done on an OLD Win98 machine. There are hundreds of these floppies<p>Recently acquired a computer with Win7. New out of the box. It finds that all these floppies do not have a recognizable file system… We know this not to be true because they all can be read on other Win98 systems as well as the embroidery machines themselves.</p><p>I tried the solution at: <a href=”https://web.archive.org/web/20160410130331/https://computing.net/answers/windows-95/problems-with-a-drive/168023.html” target=”_blank”>https://computing.net/answers/wi…</a></p><p>Both manually and creating a script. DEBUG functions fine up until W 100 0 0 1. Then I get a “Disk writing error drive a:/” error. Of course doing this on the Win98 machine.</p><p>I am hoping that the reason why the Win7 machine can not read any of these disks is the issue this solution is supposed to address, it seems logical to me.</p><p>Any solutions would be greatly appreciated. There are hundreds of these disks totaling thousands of stitch patterns that need to be moved to CD and it will be much more difficult to do on Win98 machine as it does not have a CD writer in it and installing one would be a real pain as the machine is just so old.<br></p><p align=”right”><font size=”1″><i>message edited by Babarous</i></font></p></td>
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The problem with floppy disk is that they were unreliable at the best of times. Often a disk formatted and space in one machine could not be read in another because of slight misalignment of the heads in one or the other disk drive.
One solution was to format a floppy in the computer that you want to ultimately read the disk then copy the data from on floppy to another using the old computer.
Having said that, a USB CD drive is not that expensive and installing a CD writer is not hard either.