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.Its calling for the disk as part of the anti-piracy control that was programmed into it. We cant aid in cracking software to install no matter how old it is.

Your best bet is to contact the software manufacturer if they still EXIST and see if they have a solution for you, or find it for SALE on ebay etc if any are to be found. Then the fun begins if its on a 5.25" floppy and you are running Windows XP and will need to find a old floppy drive A: B: Cable with the twist that has the modern floppy connection to the motherboard, but the older BLADE connection or get the blade to modern conversion adapter and use a modern floppy cable.Maybe one of these blokes has the answer

http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?35705-Installing-DOS-program-without-floppy-discs&p=245339

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/512478/loading-a-dos-program-without-floppy-discs/