14 October 2008

Floppy disks

I need to access an old file that's on a floppy disk but I have a laptop and no floppy disk drive - any ideas?

Well you are going to have to find a PC with a floppy drive and copy the data onto a USB key or writeable CD or email the data to yourself. If you can’t find one and the data is important or perhaps you have a lot of floppies to copy you can buy external floppy drives that plug into a USB port. A quick search on http://www.google.co.uk/ found drives for around the £20 mark. If you have an IT support company looking after your systems they should be able to help and copy the data for you.

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