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by rrimby

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I have an old PC with only DOS and a legacy phone system loaded. I need to edit a large file and have received the message that there is not enough memory on the hard drive to edit the file. I have deleted all the files I can to create more space to no avail. The only backup system available is a 3-1/4 floppy drive. Is there a way I can copy this large file (approximately 400M) to several floppy disks?

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by older mycroft

And probably the next couple of weeks of your life.

What type of file is it?
What are you using for the edit?
What total size is your HDD?

If you could get online you could upload it and edit online (maybe).
I imagine you'll have zero USB support - otherwise you could dump it to a Thumbdrive.

by bizzo

... think of the overtime!!! :D
$ch-ching$

by sue t

open up the computer and put in a 2nd hard drive, copy the file to that drive and edit it and then move it back to the old hard drive if it is needed there. You do say it tells you you do not have enough memory so are you sure it is out of hard drive space?

by robo_dev

There's obviously no backup for this 400mb file, and if it's an old PC, who knows how much life is left in that old drive?

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