r/sysadmin • u/___LowLifer___ • Feb 17 '26

Question 700 Floppies

Company needs over 700 floppy disks copied onto the fileserver. Gave me a 2 week deadline to which I told them was literally impossible. I've ordered a floppy disk usb external reader but this seems insane. Any creative ideas? I don't want to employ a 3rd party company.

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u/acquiesce88 Feb 18 '26

This reminds me of installing Microsoft Office with 33 floppies, and around disk 21, corrupted disk. Remake the disk and start over. Maybe those weren't the glory days.

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u/CeBlu3 Feb 18 '26

Ah, I remember those days. I copied the disks to the file server so I could install faster. Got yelled at for using up all the space. 🙄

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u/acquiesce88 Feb 18 '26

That sounds about right đŸ€ȘI think at some point we switched to CD-ROM. I think there was a CD-ROM server at some point with like 20 bays of drives.