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Saving larger file to floppies

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by smtech100

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I will be changing from Windows Me to WIN2kPro or XP Pro and I want to do a clean install. When I try to backup a 2MG file to 2 floppies my system gives me the message, that the floppy is too small and to save to a bigger disk. I don't have a cd-rw, so I need to save to 2 floppies(1.44 MG each). When I hit retry in dialog box it runs for a few seconds and then gives me the same message (need to save to a bigger disk) over and over again. Is there any way I can by-pass this and save the file to 2 floppies?

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by raelz

Saving to two floppies is never efficient, because you don't have another system of backing up files, you'll need to compress, as was suggested by the previous user, grab yourself winzip from www.winzip.com .

by rboggio1

What has occured is you have a file larger then a floppy. Windows, whatever version you have does not understand you want to split the file onto two floppy. You will need a program for that. Winzip may work depending on the files you are trying to compress. If they are text files they will compress nicely, if they are graphics, MP3s avi's or the such they will not compress well and you may still have the same problem. I would recommend a "file splitter" program that will tell Windows to split your file onto two floppys. There are many on the web for free or shareware. This is one such site /www.dekabyte.com/filesplitter. If you want to choose a compression program I would suggest ENZIP over WINZIP. Winzip is shareware and comes with its share nags. ENZIP is freeware and works very well without the headache. You can find it at www.cpam.freeserve.co.uk/download.html. Another option is to get a web drive. There are still some sites out there that give a 30day free trial. Last I new www.filesanywhere.com still had that deal. There are other sites if you look. Do a googel search and you will find them. Last thing IF you have USB you could buy a "32meg thumb drive". I have seen them as low as 12Bucks at some computer stores.

by csmith

Using winzip is probably best, but a backup program will also work.
These are the programs usually used for tape backup (Includes MSBackUp that you got for free with ME).
They will also work with floppies, although most people don't konow about it, or do it, because it is not very efficient.
There are also sometimes version conflicts.
I would recommend a good backup, not just one file ,before you load Win2K or XP. Neither of these programs have the hardware compatability of ME.
You may have go back to ME, if some of your hardware does not work under Win2K, XP.
It is nice to have a Hard Drive image of, the way it was, when this happens.
Regards, Chris

by hatchingground

If you go to zdnet.com and type "file splitter" in the download search box you will get a number of good, free programs to choose from. I use g-split, but there are several that will work splitting your files to fit on floppys. Have lots of floppys handy. Hope this helps.

by bobho

If you really want to put the larger files on floppy's without using a cocmpression utility you can get a spanning app as stated above. I have used FileSpan for a long time. Follow this link and look for fspan10: http://snurl.com/m3q

Regards,

DrBob:>)

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