notSure Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I have 5 floppy disks which I have copied over to a USB storage device. These disks load a software program. (My current computer does not have a floppy disk drive.) Original you would load the 1st disk and setup would upload the files(on disk # 1) onto the hard drive and when ready ask for disk #2 to be inserted; etc till all 5 disks were uploaded in this fashion.Now that I have the 5 disk in separate folders on the USB device drive, how do I make it happen. In other words I am able to load the folder containing disk # 1. But what do I do when it asks to insert disk # 2?I've tried to load disk #2 in the same file as disk # 1; but it ask for disk #2 to be inserted.Anyway out of my dilemma??Thanks in advanceBenp.s., If I should be asking my question on a different forum, please advise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 This sounds like very old software. Does it not ask for the location of disk 2, when it prompts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notSure Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 This sounds like very old software. Does it not ask for the location of disk 2, when it prompts?Thanks for getting backNo, the prompt does not ask for a choice of drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2khardtop Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 maybe try loading them into the root director of 5 different usb drives, or 5 different cdr's???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2khardtop Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 maybe try loading them into the root director of 5 different usb drives, or 5 different cdr's????A lot of those floppys had simple text autorun/ini files...any chance you can modify it to read subdirectorys??And finally, a lot of old programs didn't "install", they just dumped all of the files into a folder. Might be worth trying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 What is the program you are trying to install ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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