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hello, apologies if this the wrong forum mods, but seems the nearest for my needs.

I have a lot of 5.25 floppy disks that I need to go through and extract the writings of a chap who died a few years back. He was a professional writer and he used computers for his work from the earliest days. His widow does not want to lose his early work.

I am finding it a laborious process. I use Anadisk as that can handle CP/M and DOS, which are the languages these disks are formatted in. I can dump to C: from Anadisk, but then I have to restart to open the dump up in Windows - I can't just TAB between DOS and Windows since I put Office on, though I thought I had done previous to that.

When I am in Windows I can see but not read text files as discrete files if I explore the A: drive which is the 5.25 drive, so then I have to go back into MS-DOS mode to create a dump file of the floppy in Anadisk and then reboot to Windows again to read it. I have so many of these disks to work through, I wonder if there is a quicker way of doing it - any ideas please?

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