[patzer]

Want to run an old, old DOS program (IBM File ***'T) that contains an extensive cross referance of my 1600 book library.

Will not run on my new windows xp and so I had my grandson partitition the drive and we put MS 98 on the new partition. When I go to MS 98 and go into the DOS mode and I put the floppy in "A" slot the result is "general failure reading drive A Abort, Retry, Fail" . In some instances with other old dos programs I get a message of "disk is not formatted". I had been running the the old DOS disk on a computer with DOS 95 on it but it is hard to believe that a DOS program that would run on MS 95 would not run on DOS 98.

We tried to partition the hard drive with a section on DOS 95 instead of the 98, but the program he was using seemed to prevent this.

Would appreciate any help we can get on this problem.

[zephyr]

Hi patzer, and welcome.

I think you have a couple of things working against you.

1.) I think your floppy drive isn't compatible with the one that created the floppies. That happens sometimes and one way around it is to E-mail the file from the old computer to the new one and then create a new floppy on the new computer that it will be more fond of. Or...You could try making another floppy, sometimes a different one will work for some strange reason.

2.) I think XP may be able to run that dos program if you will try it in win95 or win98 compatibility mode. To do that, create a shortcut to the programs executable and view the properties of that shortcut. It will give you the options (pif) needed to let XP emulate a win95 or win98 system and attempt to run that program

Good luck.