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[Titan]

Why would you run scandisk and format them every once in a while if you cared about them?
If you are to "save" a floppy as long as possible, you are to keep it locked away somewhere dark, in a room with low humidity and a temp between +8 - +15* C.

Floppy's aren't expencive anyway. Hell... i don't even have a floppy-drive anymore.. I have moved over to using memory-cards/USB-drives for any small files... I hardly even use CD's.

If you want to have a secure copy of something, you have to spread it.

Sugestion: Get 1 copy on a good CD (preferely a special one) as optical storage-mediums are more stable then magnetic, and keep it in a dark place. Get an external server-space, like some free webserver, and suff one copy there. Save the original in 2 copies on the hard-drive, as the odds of secorts failing on 2 places are smaller then just the one.

[Javaguy]

hmm.. thing is I have to use floppies for windows 3.1 as I cant get it to detect the CD drive..
mind you the DOS floppies I used were 14 years old and still working
floppies are unreliable like that :not_ok:

[platformer]

Have you tried to add this line in autoexec.bat :
device=c:\oakcdrom.sys /d:mscd000

and this line in config.sys :
mscdex=c:\mscdex.exe /d:mscd000

Make sure that you copy files oakcdrom.sys and mscdex.exe
in root of C drive or state the correct path of these files.
This is a procedure to get the cd-rom drive to work in ms-dos.
Maybe this is also the way to get it work in Win 3.1, and I think
also the way to get it work in Win 9x if nothing else helps.

[win98]

Why would you bother copy the data off and reformating floopys you have every now and then just run a surface scan.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Not so easy. When it's a bootdisk or OS installation disks, floppy imaging software is the only solution.