cd to floppy conversion

[Scarman]

I want to transfer cd files to floppy disks, does anyone know of any software that will allow me to do this.

[rojash]

Not having a floppy disk drive, I can't be certain, but I would have though that any program that could rip CDs (such as Easy Cd Extractor,or Windows Media Player) would do that. If not you could always rip them to your hard drive and manually copy them to floppy - but why on earth would you want to?

[rojash]

On second thoughts, I don't see how it's possible - on checking my ripped files I fin that they are typically between 45 and 70 Meg each. A floppy will hold just over a meg, so you would need around 50 floppies for 1 track! You couldn't even fit a single (typical) MP3 file on a single floppy.

[markysngc]

I agree with rojash, it could be done by simply dragging and dropping the files from the CD to the floppy or by selecting the file and right clicking then select send to a: however it is highly unlikely that a floppy is going to hold anywhere near enough data to make this feasible.

If you need to transport files that are on a CD to give to someone else you would be better off either copying the whole CD or just burning the files you want onto a new CD, either this or invest in a half decent size USB memory stick and using that to transport the files

[Huderon]

PKZip used to be able to split and store a zip archive on multiple floppies, and the Slice and Splice utilities from PC Magazine also did that, but I don't know of anything which would do it under recent versions of Windows. And as Rojash said, you'd need an awful lot of floppies to hold all that data

[vehelpfulguy]

I guess the overriding question is WHY do you want to put anything on to diskette?

Most modern PCs do not even come with a diskettre drive, and diskettes are very small, and very unreliable.

I can only guess it is to put information on an old PC that has a diskette drive.

If this is the case, does the old PC have a USB port, because using a USB memory stick is a far better way of moving files from one PC to another.

[Scarman]

Need to do this to reload a laptop with win 98 , it does not have a cd rom and the existing win 98 floppies , 8 in total that came with it only 4 will load.

[rojash]

Sorry, I totally misunderstood your question - I thought you were referring to CD Audio. In order to do what you are trying to do you would have to ensure that the contents of each disk (including the Volume Labels) were identical to those on your installation set - it wouldn't be enough to just copy randomly all the files from the CD to a set of disks. If your disks are unreadable this is going to present a major problem. Frankly, I think you're on a loser here. Maybe you could get a set of Win98 floppies on E-bay or the like.

[markysngc]

or if it had one availble when new check ebay for the CD drive for that laptop, most laptops without a cd drive would have available for it one that would plug in somewhere, would be useful thing to have in the future too.

[alfgbt]

Win 98, floppies , im overcome with nostalgia guys.......