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From: scott@max.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Stuck with 3.5's when I only have 5.25
Message-ID: <14430.27139c08@max.u.washington.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 05:09:12 GMT
References: <14422.27130f51@max.u.washington.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA
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In article <14422.27130f51@max.u.washington.edu>, scott@max.u.washington.edu writes:
> I have an original copy of a software in 3.5 inch diskettes,
> however, on my system I don't have a 3.5 inch disk drive
> to read them, instead I have a high density 5.25 inch disk drive.
> I tried just copying the files from 3.5 diskettes to
> 5.25 diskettes from school using the the DOS's COPY command
> but that didn't work. When I run the install program of
> the software from the 5.25 on my system at home, install would
> not recognize the disk as the source diskette. A friend of my
> told me to name the labels of the 5.25s as same as that of
> 3.5s, but that also didn't work.
>
> Do anyone out there know anyway to go about in installing that
> software in my system's harddrive? As of now, I am stuck not
> knowing what to do.  :.(
 
By the way, the software in quesion is dBASE IV (if this is relevant to
the solution of the problem).
 
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Scott K. Stephen