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We’ll cover the options from easiest to most difficult. As a result, there are many semi-modern drives and solutions available. I would prefer if someone could show me where to get Microsoft MS-DOS 2.11 and how to install it on it that would be much appreciated. I want to put DOS on a floppy drive so I can install it on my Sharp 7000. Typically, the first hard drive is listed first, but the BIOS can be set to have the BIOS check the floppy disk, a CD-ROM, or another hard drive first with the. The 3.5-inch floppy drives held on as a legacy product long after their 1.44 MB capacity had become absurdly small in relative terms. Messages 4 Location Iowa, United States 1 I got my 5.25 high density floppy to be seen by Windows 7. If you have 3.5-inch floppy disks formatted for MS-DOS or Windows that you want to copy to a modern Windows 10 or Windows 7 PC, you’re in luck. This is the easiest format to work with. RELATED: Are Your Old Floppy Disks Still Readable? How to Copy Files From a 3.5-Inch Floppy Drive to a Modern PC Benj Edwards / How-To Geek You’ll have to figure out how to access or convert the data using emulators, such as DOSBox or other utilities, which is beyond the scope of this article. It might be locked in vintage file formats modern software can’t understand. Once you copy the data, you have to be able to read it.

What we’re going to cover here-copying data from a vintage floppy disk onto a modern PC-is only half the battle.

There’s a Catch: Copying Data Is the Easy Partīefore we begin, you should understand a huge caveat. Here’s how to access a vintage 3.5- or 5.25-inch floppy disk on a modern Windows PC or Mac. Eventually, they were replaced, and floppy disk drives vanished from new computers. Remember floppies? Back in the day, they were essential.