Transferring Files from one drive to another

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Hi Everyone,
I've been purging and organizing my files, copying from the hard drive to
the floppy and vice versa. Each transfer is successful but in each instance I
get a message stating "The Target cannot handle this type of document". But I
click "OK" and everything appears fine. Can you tell me why this happens? And
should I do something to correct the problem?
I use WinXP Pro on an Intel Pentium lll, 256MB RAM.
Thanks in advance for your help and thanks for all the help in the past.
Terry
 
Hi Walter,
Thank you for responding. I copy the files in Word by selecting the drive,
arriving at the list of files and right-clicking. Then select "Move to". My
apologies for being relatively inept but I'm not sure what you mean by
"What's the maximum file size so far?" I have been working with new floppies
and the files are each one or two pages of text.
I hope this is the information you need in order to help.
Terry
 
In light of your new, additional information, Peaceworks, confirm that the
Word files, etc, which you are attempting to copy to floppy disk will fit on
the disk.

Consider installing a CD-RW drive to do this task much more efficiently.
760 MB on a CD disk vs. 1.44 MB on the floppy.
Using a compression utility to transfer the files will afford even more
storage ability.
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You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data on a
diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less than that.

I've never heard of some one moving files via Word before, but that's ok.
Live and learn. I have Word 2003 on all my machines and I'm not seeing the
problem you're having. Although I haven't done anything directly with
diskette.

Rather than using Word, use explorer/MyComputer to move the data around,
unless you're needing to actually review data contents. Although it sounds
like you're not looking at content, simply using the file picker in Word to
move data around. Try explorer to see what happens.
 
Salut/Hi Walter Clayton,

le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:36 -0500, tu disais/you said:-
You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data on a
diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less than that.
Click to expand...

True, even though Word is a notorious waster of space. 1.44 million bytes is
1.44 million characters. That's a fair sized book if it were in ascii.
(Grin).

Sorry - couldn't resist. I have just been explaining to my wife why a little
file of a few thousand characters could suddenly grow like topsy just by
being saved as RTF, and then grow again by being loaded into a
wordprocessor, because of its capacity for saving much more information.

I just did the experiment

a file 18937 bytes in ascii became

21185 as rtf - just by having one single font and size applies throughout
the file.

When loaded and saved as a wordperfect document the identical file took
32271 bytes

When loaded into Word and then saved as a word document, it took 47104
bytes.

OK, 46k is far more than 18k, but my document was about 10 partly empty
pages. A 1.44 Mb diskette should hold 100 pages - even of Word document if
it consisted of nothing but simple text!
 
You might also add that 1,457,664 bytes on a FAT diskette is only 1.38MB.
The
standards with computer technology are really about close to none as one
could expect.
 
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