How to read a floppy disk created with windows?
Ron Hawkins
ron at mooly.org
Fri Oct 19 15:13:43 UTC 2007
Ashley Benton wrote:
> Hi, I am lost again.
> I used Ubuntu 6.10 and need to open a floppy disk that had been made
> by windows (don't know which one, maybe 98 or XP) The floppy disk
> contains pictures and I need to see and print some of them. I did cd
> /dev, then ls and most of what is inside is written in yellow with a
> black fond. I was wondering what it meaned? Also I tried cd /dev cat ?
> but apparently that's binary because all I was was signs without
> meaning for me. Does anybody knows how I can actually see the pictures
> that are on this disk drive?
> All help would be appreciated
> Meg
Mount the floppy disk by invoking the command:
mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
Then look at /media/floppy for your image files.
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