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Bobbi
Is there a setting to speed up transfer of files between my hard drive and
my floppy drive?
-Bobbi
my floppy drive?
-Bobbi
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Tony Meloche
Bobbi said:Is there a setting to speed up transfer of files between my hard drive and
my floppy drive?
-Bobbi
Short answer - no. Your hard drive can be a demon, but it cannot copy
the files any faster than the floppy drive can *write* them, and that is
a snail's pace by today's standards. The floppy drive has been a
"generic" device (read "unchanged") since the early nineties.
Tony
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Bobbi
On my Win 3.1 machine, there was indeed a way to speed up transferring data
to and from the floppy drives. I can write files faster on that machine than
on my Win XP machine.
Bobbi
to and from the floppy drives. I can write files faster on that machine than
on my Win XP machine.
Bobbi
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Kelly
Hi Bobbi,
And what was that?
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And what was that?
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Tony Meloche
Bobbi said:On my Win 3.1 machine, there was indeed a way to speed up transferring data
to and from the floppy drives. I can write files faster on that machine than
on my Win XP machine.
Bobbi
I'm not surprised. Back at that time (1990-ish) the floppy was the
*basic* backup/copy format. A lot of attention was devoted to it.
Today, it is a near-forgotten afterthought. You do not even get a
floppy drive on most new computers unless you specifically request it
(about $20 extra). I'm certainly not any great expert, Bobbi, and I'll
be interested to see what any MVP has to say - if anything - about this,
but I'm certain there is no tweak in XP to make the floppy drive *copy*
files faster.
Tony
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M.I.5¾
Tony Meloche said:I'm not surprised. Back at that time (1990-ish) the floppy was the
*basic* backup/copy format. A lot of attention was devoted to it. Today,
it is a near-forgotten afterthought. You do not even get a floppy drive
on most new computers unless you specifically request it (about $20
extra). I'm certainly not any great expert, Bobbi, and I'll be interested
to see what any MVP has to say - if anything - about this, but I'm certain
there is no tweak in XP to make the floppy drive *copy* files faster.
Actually there is. Simply turn off the write verify and that will speed
things up.
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Ken Blake
Is there a setting to speed up transfer of files between my hard drive and
my floppy drive?
No. It happens at the speed of the slower device--in this case the floppy
drive, and that is slow indeed.
What are you transferring to floppies? Why? Floppies are very close to
obsolete these days, and for many very good reasons.
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Bobbi
I'm just transferring occasional files from an old computer to the new one.
The old computer doesn't have USB, and it sure isn't worth installing one.
On the old computer long ago, I changed some setting that sped up transfer
speeds, but that was so long ago I couldn't possibly remember.
Bobbi
The old computer doesn't have USB, and it sure isn't worth installing one.
On the old computer long ago, I changed some setting that sped up transfer
speeds, but that was so long ago I couldn't possibly remember.
Bobbi
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Ken Blake
I'm just transferring occasional files from an old computer to the new
one. The old computer doesn't have USB, and it sure isn't worth installing
one. On the old computer long ago, I changed some setting that sped up
transfer speeds, but that was so long ago I couldn't possibly remember.
In my view, if the need is occassional, don't worry about and just accept
the slow speed.
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Terry R.
On 8/27/2007 9:45 PM On a whim, Bobbi pounded out on the keyboard
You're probably using the caching capability. I remember being able to
save files to floppy and it would appear to be done in a flash. But all
it did was cache everything so the floppy would continue receiving the
data until everything was written, but the dialog disappeared
immediately. Problem was too many users ejected the disk thinking it
was done without checking the light on the drive.
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On my Win 3.1 machine, there was indeed a way to speed up transferring data
to and from the floppy drives. I can write files faster on that machine than
on my Win XP machine.
Bobbi
You're probably using the caching capability. I remember being able to
save files to floppy and it would appear to be done in a flash. But all
it did was cache everything so the floppy would continue receiving the
data until everything was written, but the dialog disappeared
immediately. Problem was too many users ejected the disk thinking it
was done without checking the light on the drive.
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Terry R.
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Ken said:In my view, if the need is occassional, don't worry about and just
accept the slow speed.
Agreed: Or, ZIP the files to make them smaller.
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