how do you change over an old floppy to cd with a different operating system?

There are quite a few differences (and some similarities) between these operating systems. It mostly depends on the level of interest you wish to go to. At the top most level, the user experience is different. There are different user interfaces which gives different user experience. Hardware wise ...

Nah Floppy drives are still around...it's just that most data these days are done on CD's, DVD's, Flash drives. Loads of them are sold on Ebay : http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Floppy-Drives-/169/i.html?_nkw=floppy+drives&_catref=1&_dmpt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282 ...

The o.s. can be damabed in a number of ways, which would cause the computer-laptop no to "turn on".You can have a brand new machine and damage it without knowing. One way is to "write" to the hard drive [h.d] while a suddent loss of electrocial power due to power outage (a/c, battery, etc) and or a ...

Believe it or not, somewhere people are still using floppies, at least for some weird things like testing on old machines. But, I think in the following 20 years CD's will be gone because Blu-rays will be as cheap technology then and some other guys will talk about whether Blu-ray will be gone ...

My choice is always Windows as an operating system.

An operating system (OS) is an interface between hardware and user which is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the resources of the computer that acts as a host for computing applications run on the machine. As a host, one of the purposes of an operating ...