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[Guest]

I was wondering if anyone could help me (I have tried honest)! if there is a
way to open a floppy word processing disk created on windows 98 on window xp
home edition? I can't email it from the 98 computer as it doesn't have the
internet. many thanks for any advice.

 

[R. McCarty]

What program was originally used to create the document ? What is
the file's 3 letter extension. Many editing applications have provisions
to convert or read other programs data files.

To determine a "Parent" application from the extension of the data
file, visit here: http://www.file-ext.com/n.html

 

[Gordon]

I was wondering if anyone could help me (I have tried honest)! if there is
a way to open a floppy word processing disk created on windows 98 on
window xp home edition? I can't email it from the 98 computer as it
doesn't have the internet. many thanks for any advice.

Umm yes.......insert floppy, and in Windows Explorer copy the file from the
floppy to your HDD. Then in your Word Processor open!
QED
(Quite Easily Done)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I was wondering if anyone could help me (I have tried honest)! if
there is a way to open a floppy word processing disk created on
windows 98 on window xp home edition? I can't email it from the 98
computer as it doesn't have the internet. many thanks for any advice.

Please help us to help you. What does "if there is a way to open" mean? What
happens when you try? If you get an error message, please quote it verbatim.

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There are only two potential problems:

1. Your Windows XP computer doesn't have a program installed that is
compatible with the word processing program that was used to create the
diskette. If that's the case, you'll either have to install an appropriate
program or conevrt the diskette to a format that will be recognized by a
program you do have installed.

2. If you can't read the diskette at all, it has nothing to do with the word
processing program, but is probably the media descriptor byte issue
described here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140060 If that's the
case, format a new diskette on your Windows XP machine, then take it and the
diskette you want to read to a Windows 98 computer, and copy the diskette to
the newly-formatted one. It will now be readable on the Windows XP machine.

 

[Ron]

I was wondering if anyone could help me (I have tried honest)! if there is a

what have you tried?

way to open a floppy word processing disk created on windows 98 on window xp

what's a "floppy word processing disk"? What's in it? a word processor
software or a word processor document?

home edition? I can't email it from the 98 computer as it doesn't have the
internet. many thanks for any advice.

try other floppies. Format it on XP machine, then copy files from Win98.
Floppies are known to go bad easily.