HELP! Need to copy 50 billion floppies!

cwb27 · May 20, 2003

Well it's not really that many, but it's a lot. Is there any way to more efficently copy the disks?

I doubt there is, but when you see a stack of blank floppies that's about a foot high it's sort of intimidating.

moorcito · May 20, 2003

Yeah, it's called giving someone $10 to copy them for you while you do something else.

eh? · May 20, 2003

^^sounds like we got a winner!

Zerileous · May 20, 2003

copy them all into a folder on the HDD and burn that to a CD, make sure you dont close out the session so you can add onto it later.

Xaotic · May 20, 2003

If you use have a LS120 or 240 it'll write much faster, in the vicinity of 8X. If it's strictly copying, use an imaging program and write from HDD, an excellent free one here:

http://dvalot.free.fr/emtcopy.htm

It also does a scan/CRC on the disk and will indicate disk or copy errors.

Ridenow · May 20, 2003

Depends on who is paying for it and how many there are. There exists a special mass copy floppy drive. You put 100 disks in the top, install the software and hit go. I have no clue where to get one though. Some copy shops have them and will copy floppies for a fee.
Another option would be to write a little batch script that would get the process down to insert floppy and press enter.

cwb27 · May 20, 2003

It's about 80 disks. I got 40 done in about 30 minutes. Just pasted onto each disk. Was faster then I thought it'd be.

Daemonfly · May 21, 2003

I've do at least multiple computers, with dual-floppy drives, but thats if I wanted to get it done fast.

cf79 · May 21, 2003

HELP! Need to copy 50 billion floppies

LOL. I don't know why but some very funny images came into my head..

:::Boss walks in:::

Boss: JOHNSON! I need all these disk copied before the end of the day.

:::Throws down several storage-save boxes of floppies:::

sounds like you're almost done. The curiosity is killing me. Why are you doing this?

cwb27 · May 21, 2003

It's a new marking administration system being used by my school. Each teacher gets a disk which holds are their marks for all their classes....

Copying the disks is phase 1, phase 2 is labeling each disk..... Phase 3 is installing this software on all 350 computers in the school...... (starts stroking shot gun) Just kill me.....

JimmyG · May 21, 2003

Surely your school has a LAN. If so, there is software available that allows you to "push" a new program to all of the computers from the server.....let the friggin comuter do the walking!

hawk072 · May 21, 2003

JimmyG said:
Surely your school has a LAN. If so, there is software available that allows you to "push" a new program to all of the computers from the server.....let the friggin comuter do the walking!

I agree. Dealing with floppy disks is a pain. With a LAN there are better ways to do this.

Skiing Squirrel · May 21, 2003

I hope your getting something out of this.

srs · May 21, 2003

For goodness sakes why in the world are they doing it that way? If those PC's aren't networked FIRE the current computer guy and hire someone to network those puppies. You could set a login script that automatically installs that proggy the minute they log in. Or even better, while they've gone home for the night.

eh? · May 21, 2003

if the school is on a domain you can "push" it through the network and install it.

cV · May 21, 2003

Let's hope they don't have it in a workgroup.

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