New drives are not particularly expensive - with the fastest 22x drives currently available typically costing a little over US$30 on Newegg (those are all IDE btw).įWIW - my personal preference (other than Pioneer drives, which are more expensive) is for LG +/or Samsung drives. Hopefully - someone with more expeience on the subject than me (which won't be hard!), will be able to offer an alternative?īut the only way I can think of to get her personal files (saved documents etc) off the Windows 98 system, is to buy a new DVD±RW drive, to replace the CD-ROM drive :emotion-55:īeing such an old system however, the CD-ROM will undoubtedly be an IDE drive, so the new DVD±RW drive would need to be IDE as well. If you are running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows 2000, click Start, Shutdown, and Restart the computer to an MS-DOS prompt. The second reason is that floppy disk drives (FDD) have a minuscul. See here for details about the history and performance of Floppy disks.

They'd subsequently need to be downloaded/reinstalled on the new laptop. of 2 - Floppy disk drive not appear in File Explorer when plugged in - posted in Windows 10 Support: New computer with Windows 10, will not show the floppy disc drive in File Explorer after. If you are not able to read or write to a floppy diskette from Windows, verify the computer is not exhibiting floppy driver issues by testing the floppy drive from MS-DOS. Answer (1 of 4): Several reasons why: first of all, Phillip Remaker points out that the architecture would get bogged down and slow down, running Super I/O. your introduction might upset the ladies who frequent these forum (Bev et al) :emotion-3: :emotion-2:Īs to the question: You can't transfer the programs in their entirety I'm afraid, since they each have their own registry entries associated with them.

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