scott@max.u.washington.edu (10/11/90)
I have an original copy of a software in 3.5 inch diskettes, however, on my system I don't have a 3.5 inch disk drive to read them, instead I have a high density 5.25 inch disk drive. I tried just copying the files from 3.5 diskettes to 5.25 diskettes from school using the the DOS's COPY command but that didn't work. When I run the install program of the software from the 5.25 on my system at home, install would not recognize the disk as the source diskette. A friend of my told me to name the labels of the 5.25s as same as that of 3.5s, but that also didn't work. Do anyone out there know anyway to go about in installing that software in my system's harddrive? As of now, I am stuck not knowing what to do. :.( Any help will be greatly appreciated. Scott K. Stephen
scott@max.u.washington.edu (10/11/90)
In article <14422.27130f51@max.u.washington.edu>, scott@max.u.washington.edu writes: > I have an original copy of a software in 3.5 inch diskettes, > however, on my system I don't have a 3.5 inch disk drive > to read them, instead I have a high density 5.25 inch disk drive. > I tried just copying the files from 3.5 diskettes to > 5.25 diskettes from school using the the DOS's COPY command > but that didn't work. When I run the install program of > the software from the 5.25 on my system at home, install would > not recognize the disk as the source diskette. A friend of my > told me to name the labels of the 5.25s as same as that of > 3.5s, but that also didn't work. > > Do anyone out there know anyway to go about in installing that > software in my system's harddrive? As of now, I am stuck not > knowing what to do. :.( By the way, the software in quesion is dBASE IV (if this is relevant to the solution of the problem). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Scott K. Stephen
CHAS@MTUS5.BITNET (Chas. Thompson) (10/13/90)
What Package are you trying to install?
stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) (10/13/90)
Hi, My machine has a 3.5" high density drive. However, it does not read low density 3.5" disks formatted for 720K. It only reads 1.44M disk format. Any reason why? The 5.25" HD drive reads both 1.2M and 360K... Please reply to this account. Thanks a lot. - Stephen
hendricp@wanda.waiariki.ac.nz (Peter Hendricks) (10/15/90)
In article <1990Oct13.160534.23139@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung) writes: > Hi, > > My machine has a 3.5" high density drive. However, it does not read low > density 3.5" disks formatted for 720K. It only reads 1.44M disk format. > Any reason why? The 5.25" HD drive reads both 1.2M and 360K... Most likely you have one of those drives that don't have the density sensor. You probably know that 1.44 disks have a second hole. I have struck a Mitsubishi drive that didn't have the sensor for this hole. It tries to read a 1.44 disk, and that fails, of course. Try using DOS's DRIVER.SYS with default parameters. You may be able to access 720k disks on that drive with a different drive letter then. Before buying 1.44 drives, it pays to check whether they have the sensor. Peter