No floppy but competitive upgrade needs it

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Steady99

Office 97 migration to laptop without floppy. Have original floppy disks to
several programs that qualify. Problem is that I have no floppy. I've tried
burning cds but none are recognized by compliance checker.

Usb floppy might work, but I'd rather not buy something that I really don't
use much.

How would I "diskcopy a disk 1 floppy to a cd" that would be recognized ???
I had this thing working a year ago, but I can't remember what I did to make
it fly.
This is a ground up rebuild of a corrupt XP Home Toshiba build.

Thx, steady99
 
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B.J.Honeycut

Office 97 migration to laptop without floppy. Have original floppy
disks to several programs that qualify. Problem is that I have no
floppy. I've tried burning cds but none are recognized by compliance
checker.

Usb floppy might work, but I'd rather not buy something that I really
don't use much.

How would I "diskcopy a disk 1 floppy to a cd" that would be
recognized ??? I had this thing working a year ago, but I can't
remember what I did to make it fly.
This is a ground up rebuild of a corrupt XP Home Toshiba build.

Thx, steady99
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If the CD boots but compliance check fails, I suspect you either have a CD
burner that doesn't do a RAW copy or no RAW copy software. The digital
certificates won't copy without both those requirements. They lie in an
undertrack (multiplexed) and just don't work most of the time.

It's a DRM thing, which is rough because the EULA permits one backup copy,
but the technology makes it dificult, now with legacy-free machines, it's
worse. You could try contacting MS support, or make the CD on a RAW burner
with SW like CloneCD, but I don't even know if that would work.

If you need MS:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326246

--
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden;
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

Mike
 
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