Loading a DOS program without floppy discs.

I'm interested in installing/using 'DrawPerfect for DOS 1.1' in WinXP/Sp3 because it a has a unique (?) way of drawing circles - namely by selecting the centre and adjusting the radius. WinXP/SP3 copes perfectly well with running the sister program WordPerfect for Dos v5.1, so I expect that DrawPerfect would do so likewise. The DrawPerfect program installed from several Floppy discs. I no longer have the discs, but I had copied the files from them into one folder on C:\. If I click on Install.exe, it eventually instructs me to put the first floppy disc into Drive C. I would like guidance on how I can progress from this point, since I have no record of what the contents of disc #1 were, nor how to point the installer to them.

 

I've had a bit of a think and although I've never tried to do it myself, it might be possible to make an ISO file using the files you have extracted from the floppys and have saved to your C: Drive.

You will need to download and install a burning program. Image Burn is a good free one. Image Burn has the ability to makeISO's. Open the image burn dialogue and when instructed navigate to your saved files. This may or may not work, but the worst that can happen is you make a new drinks coaster.

When your iso file is complete, you can then burn an install disk.

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=Download

Let us know how you get on...

Here are step by step instructions from Image Burn:

https://neosmart.net/wiki/burning-iso-images-with-imgburn/