How to open Win 95 floppy on XP?

[Maria]

Please, please help me! I have a floppy disk that I used
on Windows 95 that I would like to open on XP. How do you
do that?? Any help would be so much appreciated!
Thank you!

 

[PaulM]

XP will not read them.

 

[Squire]

Go to the Windows Command Prompt,
Type: CD\ and hit Enter, to put you in the Root directory,
Type: A: and hit Enter,
Type: DIR and hit Enter.
Most of the Dos commands are still useable, for copying or what ever.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Please, please help me! I have a floppy disk that I used
on Windows 95 that I would like to open on XP. How do you
do that?? Any help would be so much appreciated!
Thank you!

If you can't read the floppy, you may not have the application installed the
files need to open.
You will need to install the application needed for the file. What are you
trying to open?

The floppy disk may be compressed using the 95 compression utility.
You will need to open and copy the contents of the floppy using a computer
with 95 installed.
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[Annie E.]

Hi:
In the past, I did try, ... then the machine started
acting-up very strangely. Win. 95 and XP does not get
along well.
You need to be cautious before doing, because forcible
action might result in even XP crash that I experienced
last week. But, because of Recovery CDs sent by hp
manufacturer few months ago, I luckily rescued XP while I
lost some invaluable files I accumulated for several
months.
Annie E.

 

[EGMcCann]

If the disk is not readable for some reason (corrupted, most likely -
floppies go bad quickly) it won't matter if it's XP or 95. Otherwise, go to
"My computer," stick the disk in the drive, double click floppy drive A:
(assuming, of course, your system has a floppy drive.)

 

[Tim Slattery]

Please, please help me! I have a floppy disk that I used
on Windows 95 that I would like to open on XP. How do you
do that?? Any help would be so much appreciated!
Thank you!

In general this should not be a problem. Win95 and WinXP both use the
FAT12 file system for floppies, so a disk written by either should be
readable by the other.

So what's the problem? Maybe the application that wrote the file on
the Win95 system isn't installed on the XP system. Maybe one of the
floppy drives is out of alignment. Maybe the floppy is defective, or
has become defective since it was written (yes, that happens).

Actually, your post doesn't say that you've tried reading the disk on
XP. Have you? What exactly did you try, and exactly how did the
computer respond?

 

[F1Com]

XP will not read them.

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Wrong answer. The floppy format has remained the same. If there is any
issue reading the disk, it is most likely to due the drive itself or the
floppy.

I've had many instances where floppies written on one drive are not
readable on another drive but can still be read on the drive that wrote
the data. I think the issue is "quality control".

Terry

 

[PaulM]

Right, they can only be read on the drive that wrote the data. So the drive
in the Xp computer will most likely not read the disk.

 

[F1Com]

Right, they can only be read on the drive that wrote the data. So the drive
in the Xp computer will most likely not read the disk.

Only in some instances. You stated XP won't read them and that isn't
correct. If there is a problem reading, it is due to the floppy or the
drive.

Terry

 

[Alex Nichol]

XP will not read them.

Floppy disks are in FAT12 - and provided the *hardware* can read them
they can be read equally in any Windows system.

You just double click the icon in My Computer

But drive compatibility is not all it might be - and if they are old DD
720 K disks a modern drive may be in trouble.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Please, please help me! I have a floppy disk that I used
on Windows 95 that I would like to open on XP.

A point that occurs to me though is that if someone used one of the
compression methods - DrvSpace or DblSpace - to compress the disk as a
whole, those cannot be handled by XP. But files on floppies written in
the normal way can, and it would have been more usual to use some zip
utility maybe if a lot of data was wanted on the disks - those can be
read by the corresponding software

 

[Ken Blake]

XP will not read them.

No, that's completely false. If Maria is having a problem reading
hers, it's very likely that the diskette drive on *her* XP
computer is aligned slightly differently from the drive that
created them. This has nothing to do with XP vs 95 or even XP
computers vs 95 computers; it has to do only with a likely slight
difference between these two specific drives.

Maria should try formatting a diskette on her XP machine, then
taking it to the 95 machine and writing it there, and then trying
to read it on the XP machine. No guarantees, but that *may* work.