#TRANSFER DOS2USB TO NEW PC PC#
#TRANSFER DOS2USB TO NEW PC WINDOWS#

If one of those many old programs fit your needs better than Word or Excel you are out of luck today. A review of word processor or spreadsheet programs might cover 20 or more.

#TRANSFER DOS2USB TO NEW PC PC#

Let me digress here to explain why this is good news -) Younger readers may not know that PC Magazine used to be more than half an inch thick.

#TRANSFER DOS2USB TO NEW PC WINDOWS#

To my amazement, in two out of four cases, Windows booted up and ran fine with all my applications already installed. Then I ran DOSBox and when I landed at the DOS prompt on C: I typed WIN. I modified the DOSBox configuration file to mount those folders as drives C: through J. dosbox folder in an already installed copy of DOSBox for Linux. Those I copied to a thumb drive or CD using Puppy, putting D: in folder D, etc. For reasons that do not matter here, a typical DOS/Win3.1 installation here had drives C through J.

Alternatively, in some cases I installed a USB port on a card. You could probably just boot it from a CD drive but I actually installed it on the hard drives long ago so I could do backups. Some of the old machines and DOS/Win3.1 do not support USB or burning optical disks so the first problem is to back up these systems to modern media. I'll assume you already know about DOSBox and running Windows 3.1 there. This post will show how I did that and (I hope) establish that it is reasonably doable. Then I could toss the hardware and easily move the output of those old Windows programs to Linux. I wanted to move several old DOS/Win3.1 machines from hardware to a spot inside my current main desktop Linux. There is plenty of information out there on DOSBox and more than one good tutorial on installing Windows 3.1 in DOSBox. I hope you will let me know (gently) if I violate any local customs. I would add this to the guide to installing Win 3.1 in DOSBox but apparently newbies are (understandably) not allowed to do that so I started this thread. I have been lurking here for months but just joined yesterday.

Transfer dos2usb to new pc