I have located my original Empire Wargame of the Century floppy and Command Manual.  I want to load the game on my gaming PC but I'm having trouble with it.

My gaming PC runs the Windows 7 64 bit OS.  I purchased an external USB 3.5" floppy drive to use for my old games.  When I try to copy the floppy to a directory in my PC I get a message that says the disk is not readable.  If I download DOSBox will it allow me to copy the floppy?  I suspect the the command prompt will not read the floppy because it is not really DOS but Windows 7.

Can anyone give me some guidance?

On Saturday, 30 June 2012 at 17:25:03 UTC, 76Ag wrote:
> I have located my original Empire Wargame of the Century floppy
> and Command Manual.  I want to load the game on my gaming PC but
> I'm having trouble with it.
>
> My gaming PC runs the Windows 7 64 bit OS.  I purchased an
> external USB 3.5" floppy drive to use for my old games.  When I
> try to copy the floppy to a directory in my PC I get a message
> that says the disk is not readable.  If I download DOSBox will it
> allow me to copy the floppy?  I suspect the the command prompt
> will not read the floppy because it is not really DOS but Windows
> 7.
>
> Can anyone give me some guidance?

The disk media very well may be deteriorated over time.....will the drive read the disk at all..?