External floppy drive

[ashton]

Hi, I was wondering whether anyone could advise me on the following:

I recently bought a new PC that has the Windows Vista Home preloaded on it. It has no 3.5 floppy drive which I need as my family history files are all stored on floppy discs.

I bought an external floppy disc drive, it installed ok, but will not read or open the data on the floppy discs. I get the message "too many arguments." I can't view any jpeg files from my floppy discs as I receive the message "Vista photo viewer does not support this file." My saved text Word documents on the floppy disc will not open either, I get the message that the files are corrupt. Also, when I insert the floppy disc into the external drive, I am instructed to Format the disc before using. I just want the external drive to read the data!!

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Ashton.

 

[roy69]

Have you got a friend with a computer with a floppy drive that can move the data onto a cd?

 

[ashton]

Thanks for your reply Roy. I had burned some files to CD, but when I export them into my family tree maker, they are read only files and I am unable to add any content.

 

[roy69]

They are read only because they are on cd.
You need to move them back onto your computer HD and add any comments/tags that way.

 

[ashton]

Thanks Roy - That worked! I placed the files on my hard drive as you said.
I also have the floppy drive working too as I went into Compatability on my PC, selected the drive and let the PC sort it out itself. It worked!