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Printing Floppy Disk Contents - Windows

Question:
"I have many files and photos stored to floppy A: disks. I would like to get a printout of the contents on those disks. I have tried different procedures and have failed. Can you help me with this problem? My question is: How do I get a printout of the contents of a Floppy A Disk?"

Answer:

I banged my head against this for a while before I came up with a solution, and I can't say I'm too pleased with the result. But this will at least get you a list of what's on the disc.

Open the disc, and single-click on the <View> option with the left mouse button. Now single-click on . Maximize the window so you can see all of the contents.

Now, most keyboards have a button just to the right of the F12 button called . Press this button once to capture what's on the screen. Now open up a new Word document, and single-click on the button. The screen capture will appear in the Word document. You can save this and refer to it to see what's on the disc.

This is hardly a perfect solution to your problem, but I've yet to come up with a better way to do this. If I ever find a way to print off disc contents, I'll include a tip on it. Until then, at least this way you'll have some record of contents.

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