Old Sierra floppy disks on XP?

First of all make sure your floppy drive works properly. For that, insert another floppy disk in the drive and try to access the drive. If you see what's on that floppy, your game disks are damaged. If the computer still can't read the floppy, you need either to replace the floppy drive or get your game disks to a computer with a working floppy drive and copy the games to another media (like a CD or a memory stick) then use that media to install the games on your computer.

Good luck!

The problem with floppy disks is that they can easily break and become unreadable.

Using disks from the 1980s will probably throw you problems like that. Try downloading the games online somewhere. Considering you have the original copies of the games, copyright issues should not be a problem. Even if you dont own some of the games, they're fine to download because the developers sometimes disown the games - these are considered 'Abandonware'.

Home of the Underdogs is a popular website for downloading such games. Also note that you may need an MSDos emulator for your games, such as Dosbox.

Good luck!

the only way you're able to do it is to repeat the i386 folder to the complicatedpersistent with the aid of a community port ( do you have a usb port? then get a conveyable cd rom ) boot to the floppy then run the set up from the complicatedpersistent yet even stripped xp ( using nlite ) it is going to sluggish you pc to an unacceptable crawl as with 512mb of ram and that i'll anticipate an previous 486 or early 586 pentium 2 or 3 processor it is not properly well worth the set up of xp