External floppy drive

[Harvey Ussery]

Isaac Wingfield wrote:

>Second suggestion: use a borrowed PC to transfer the floppy files to a CD.
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Thanks for your response, Isaac. I tried bringing in the floppy files 
via a friend's PC. It was a Windows system, and the A drive didn't see 
any info at all on the floppies--indeed, it read them as disks that 
hadn't even been formatted. I assume that's because they were 
formatted/written by a Linux system using the ext filesystem--and the 
Win system would be looking for, what, a FAT file system or something, 
right? So if I tried using a friend's PC, it wd have to be one loaded 
with Linux, not Windows, I'm assuming. That's a possibility, though out 
here in the sticks I don't have any close-by "Linux buddies."

Am I missing something here? Is there any way to force the Windows PC to 
read the ext file structure, at least enough to be able to attach the 
files to an email I could then send to my own box?

--Harvey


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