Help with my Hyper Book Please!

I am not really really smart with computers at all and I need some good help. I am trying to get some files from my old floppy things on to my old Hyper Book notebook.

It has

Windows 95

133 Mhz processor

16 MB of ram

3 GB hard drive

and a 3/5 inch floppy drive. It has a CD ROM drive to

So I put a floppy disk in the computer and then I go to computer and click the floppy icon and I get this on my screen and I have to turn off my notebook because it will not do anything.

I see you've met the Blue Screen of Death.

Oh dear... Is it something I am doing wrong? Can I fix it? ^^

Wow... That's ancient. I suppose just getting a new computer is out of the question?
I'm sure it's possible to fix (I'm no computer guy, so it may be fatal to your computer), but... DANG that thing is ancient! I can't imagine using a computer that takes floppies.

I actually have a new notebook ^^ It is really nice but it has no floppy drives.

It has

Mac OS X 10.5.6

2.53 Ghz 2 core processor

4 GB ram

250 GB hard drive

And it has 2 video cards. One is 256 MB and the other is 512 MB I think.

But it only takes usb and CD and not floppies so I cant really get to my old files.. ^^;;

Probably not much you can do to fix it, unless you've got the install CD for Windows 95. If you still do, try re-installing it and see if that solves the problem.

Thank you ^^ I will try that and see what happens. Should I un install Windows 95 first or will it do it itself? ^^

You can't actually uninstall it, just install overtop of it.

So it will replace it and not take up more room on my hard drive?

Your harddrive will be wiped clean. So all your files will be gone.

You could try something else: Right click My Computer => Properties => Than the tab Hardware => Device manager => Find your floppy disk => Right click => Undo Installation/Delete => Reboot => Now it should reinstall it automatically. It could ask for drivers in that case just insert your windows cd.

Er, no, re-installing an OS doesn't wipe the HDD unless you tell it to re-format when installing. (Trust me on this, I've had to install Ubuntu and XP more times than I'd care to recall.)

However, Nictel's way is probably just as good, and rather faster.

Thank you ^^ I am going to bed now but I will try it in the morning. My parents said they might buy me this so I can use floppy disks with my Macintosh and other computers in the house that do not have floppy drives built in.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...7232&CatId=287

What do you think? ^^

Originally Posted by John

Er, no, re-installing an OS doesn't wipe the HDD unless you tell it to re-format when installing. (Trust me on this, I've had to install Ubuntu and XP more times than I'd care to recall.)

However, Nictel's way is probably just as good, and rather faster.

This is Windows 95, true with Ubuntu and XP you can re-install without any problems, however with older OS like 95, 98, me, 2000. It installs over your harddisk. I have installed Windows 95 quite a bit back then and you always had to back-up everything for a new install.


An external floppydrive is a great idea, though I find the price of the Sony a bit steep, then again there probably a bit more expensive since not a lot of people buy them.

...Well, that's stupid.


Alright then, use Nictel's suggestion.


If it doesn't work and you don't care about losing what's on the HDD (or can back it up first) then try re-installing it, I s'pose.

It got blue screen of death again when I right clicked the thingy to uninstall the drives for the floppy. I do not really care about anything on my hard drive. All the stuff I care about is on my floppy disks.

Can someone that knows good sites or something to buy portable floppy drives maybe search for some for me? Maybe my parents can do it later though. Do you think they sell them at staples? ^^

I am going to update this and say that I reinstalled Windows 95 and started from scratch... this time it opened my floppy disks ^^

Thank you for the help everyone!