Saving data before formatting hard drive

It is possible to back up most files onto floppy disks.
However, 1 CD-R disk holds the equivelant of 450 floppy disks.
So, unless you have less than 5MB of data that you want to backup, I would burn the files onto a CD.

A CD burner drive can beused as the CD drive to install your operating system from.

You cannot operate a program to burn CDs from a startup floppy.

I am guessing that you have a hard drive that will not boot, and you wish to backup your files, format the hard drive, and re-install your programs.

What I do, is install the drive as a secondary hard drive in a working system, and burn the needed files onto a CD from there.

While you have the drive in the other PC, consider copying the OS CD, and the latest driver files onto the drive.
This will speed up the installation, and you won't need to change CDs from the windows to the driver Cds and back again durring setup.

Chas

I think you should barrow a hard drive to you friends if you dont have, Coz commonly that file is large. and you need a temporary space for that...and use a bootable disk then back up that file using the barrowed drive....Also there is a program called Fast Lynx, Norton Commander that is suitable for copying large file and directories in DOS envirolment....

Pinoy_Teknik