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You can still buy USB floppy drives on FleaBay, and they are pretty cheap. May not last long, but could be enough if you have the originals and they haven't degraded too badly.
If you do, you could probably create a mountable image of each disk in Macrium / AOMEI which could let you swap them as if the actual floppy disk was installed. Haven't tried it - I haven't even looked at a floppy in several decades! 
What software was it?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I haven't even looked at a floppy in several decades!
Just the opposite for me. 
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Little blue pill time? 
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As OriginalGriff says, it sounds like your problems are more software than hardware.
If you are determined to upgrade to Windows 11 on new hardware, I would follow his advice. If your computer's speed, memory size, disk space, etc. is adequate for your needs, I would suggest making a backup of everything on an external drive, then reinstalling Windows 10 and any applications that you use from scratch. You may find that this alone will cure many issues that are the result of botched installs, etc.
Unless you are doing high-performance computing, video editing, high-level gaming, or some such, it is likely that your current computer is powerful enough for your needs. An i5 with 8GB of ram and a 256GB SDD drive is more than sufficient for most office tasks, watching videos, internet surfing, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I connect to my Windows 8 machine (from Windows 10) if I want to run stuff that can't migrate off the old machine. (Or I can't be bothered).
I also use mainly external drives that can easily be moved around. The only things I put on "C:" are those things that won't install on any other drive.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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What he said ^. And apart from keeping your old PC to use with old software, you can also use VMWare to create a VM of your old computer that you can keep forever.
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My laptop is almost 5 years old. What you are describing is the same thing I suffer from - MS update rot. Even if you were to clone your drive over, you would still have the rot.
What you need is a clean install.
If this is for development, get something juiced out to handle virtual machines.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I would just install Windows 11 "raw" on the new machine and then reinstall your applications there followed by copying your files. You have a corrupted version of Windows 10 - don't try to upgrade from it as you'll have nothing but problems with Windows 11 as a result.
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I recommend placing everything you need in the cloud and doing a clean start for the new machine.
Read up on secure boot and TPM before you install, and keep the old device nearby to troubleshoot.
Security has changed a lot in the last decade and it's in your interest to set it up properly from the start.
When I tried to install my new system without secure boot, I couldn't get HDMI output to work with my integrated GPU, because it doesn't run without secure boot. Who expects that?
Took me a couple of days to get everything installed, and Hyper-V working properly, mostly reading up with the current day definition of "good" security setiings and VT-d,x stuff.
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I succeeded in keeping the "same" PC without fresh install from windows XP (to W11), due to similar considerations as you. Of course, nothing remained exactly the same, including MB. I did have to buy a new license for W7, but not afterwards, even after changing the MB, cpu and system disk. This may not be possible with an OEM license, not sure.
I haven't documented my steps, am sure I had some headaches, but issues got solved, so try approaching this as an adventure.
Some have advised to use VM's for old software, but I fail to see how this would help in your situation.
Disk cloning I did with Acronis, though I changed to Macrium because my older Acronis installation was about impossible to deinstall, which I wanted to do because its drivers blocked core isolation security.
(backup software tends to have a lot of drivers)
Such issues tend to take quite a bit of time (not being a sysadmin myself).
And issues with your W10 installation will hopefully be removed by the W11 install, but I am not sure about the MS store and (not getting) updates part.
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Do you have to buy a license for Win11? My understanding is a Win10 key will unlock it.
I have to agree with others that moving your existing installation to new hardware and then upgrading to Win11 may not solve your problems. But having old software for which you may not have the installers is a Catch-22.
My solution is to do all the suggestions. Install a clean copy of Win11 on the new HD and install all the applications that you can.
Create a virtual PC and clone your Win10 hard drive into it. This way you have a clean install for (hopefully) most of your applications while preserving the ones you don't have installers for.
However, before doing anything, there are things you can do to remove junk from your system:
- Uninstall any programs you're not using.
- Run Microsoft's Disk Cleanup utility to remove junk from your system. If you haven't been doing this, you may have many GB's of Windows updates hanging around.
- Run Defragment and Optimize Drives to clean up issues.
Disk Cleanup Utility clears Temp folders, which can make a huge difference. A while ago I helped a friend with an older PC. His Windows/Temp folder had 50,000+ items in it -- deleting everything not in use made a huge improvement.
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Sounds like you're over complicating things.
Buy a external USB hard-drive. Backup what you need to it.
Then either build a new computer (do not destroy your old one).
Then transfer what you need from your backup drive to your new computer after its working.
Or just re-install Windows 10 on your old one from a clean USB drive (as it probably fixes your issues).
Then restore stuff from your USB backup drive
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I recall the story of a newbie radio announcer scheduled to play that track. He was terrified that he'd mispronounce "Rimsky-Korsakoff" so practiced for a week until it rolled off his tongue.
Come the fateful moment, and he introduced
Rimsky-Korsakoff's well known piece, "The Bite of the Flumble Bee."
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Even with our typing speeds, we introduce so many bugs. Just imagine how much more are likely to be introduced by such a fast typer 
Can we say that "The slower the coder in typing, the better the code"?
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We had a physics problem, 50 years ago, applying the uncertainty principle to the question of how quickly could a tuba player change notes. Ans: about 2 times/second at the low end.
Can anyone check this on the video?
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Hi everyone, Im tryingto to list the data coming from the mongo db in a file handlebars. But the problem is that when I load the screen, only the message "Category Listing" appears and the names of the categories do not appear as requested:
{{#each erros}}
{{texto}}
{{else}}
{{/each}}
To create the modell and the collection, I used:
var conexao = require("../config/conexao")
var CategoriaSchema = conexao.Schema({
nome:{
type: String,
require: true
},
slug:{
type: String,
require: true
},
date:{
type: Date,
default: Date.now()
}
})
module.exports = conexao.model("Categorias", CategoriaSchema)
And in the main file, to render the handlebars file, I used:
const express = require("express");
const handlebars = require("express-handlebars");
const app = express();
const Handlebars = require('handlebars')
const Categorias = require("./models/Categoria")
app.get("/", (req, res) =>{
Categorias.find().then((categorias) =>{
res.render("listaCategorias", {categorias: Categorias})
}).catch((erro) => {
(colsole.log(erro))
res.redirect("/cadastrar")
})
})
Can anybody help me?
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Bárbara 2023 wrote: Can anybody help me?
No. This area isn't for technical queries, as it says at the top of the page.
Try posting it here: Ask a Question[^]
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This would be a database question and there is a database forum.
Use code tags when you post code and anything else that should be formatted.
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Tremors: Fred Ward (Earl) and Kevin Bacon
"Yeah. See, we plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now.
Earl explained it to me."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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“The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain
For promis’d joy!”
-- Robert Burns
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Ah, the flip side of plans. Well said. Mine was a bit of humor.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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