Is it possible to burn one of those older square discs like computers used in the 90s to a CD?

I have my resume on one of these from many years ago and my computer only has CD drives. No drive for those floppy discs or whatever they are called.

Chris.

Sure, you can copy any files to a CD. You just have to find someone with a 'floppy drive' to read the files on it. They could even email it to you then you could burn it to a CD.

Chris install a floppy in the computer. It's easy to install and they're fairly inexpensive or I could send you one with the necessary cable for free. You are talking a 3 1/2" floppy right and not the really old and antiquated(no wise cracks from anyone) 5 1/4" floppies? Pete

I think the floppy on our new computer is "Read only", my wife tried to update her resume and it didn't copy what she changed. I tried to get her to send it to the Cd, but she wouldn't do it. Yes, we have a CD writer.

Leo,

I don't think they make "read only" floppy drives. She might have the "read only" tab on the actual floppy disc set, but it would give her an error message about not being able to write to the floppy when she tried to save.

You might want to tell her to learn from Chris's dilemma: floppies are well along the road to being obsolete. Chances of her reciepients having a CD drive are greater than them having a floppy drive.

Thanks Gene, I'll check that tab, I'm not sure which way it is set. She is old school and doesn't trust the computer with data too much.

Gene:

Ever since Windows NT (incl W2K and XP), floppies have been notorious for not working properly...especially if you use the floppy as the working copy. We have that problem at work all the time with over 300 computers. People write directly to them from an application like Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. and all of a sudden they start getting errors and destroy the data on the floppy. We advise them to only use floppies as a last resort to transfer data files from one PC to another or as a backup; never read/write directly to one from an application.

Originally posted by Dale McIntosh:
Gene:

Ever since Windows NT (incl W2K and XP), floppies have been notorious for not working properly...especially if you use the floppy as the working copy. We have that problem at work all the time with over 300 computers. People write directly to them from an application like Word/Excel/PowerPoint/etc. and all of a sudden they start getting errors and destroy the data on the floppy. We advise them to only use floppies as a last resort to transfer data files from one PC to another or as a backup; never read/write directly to one from an application. I've never liked floppies, regardless of OS. The 3 1/2" are marginally better that the ol' DS-DD 5 1/4". I always hold my breath when I attempt to use them, because it seems it's a 50-50 shot as to whether it will work or not. My current file transfer media of choice , when I can't use the network, is the USB flash drives- can't beat them for size (physically small and large storage space)and speed. I carry one all the time. It's not something you would mail resumes on, though.

Gene's got it. Flash drives are the best. 128 megs are what, about $20.00? That small a drive will hold a lot of floppies and it's solid state memory.