Yeah, if it's a boot-only virus you won't get infected by copying the files. Copy all files to another floppies. Test the copy and then reformat (destroying) the infected floppies. If installation floppy is a booter, you'll have to clean it first, or run sys x: y: to transfer boot record.

Thanks, that sounds like a good plan.

I've copied the files from the eight floppies to eight corresponding folders on my computer and I'm currently copying them to eight blank floppies. McAfee didn't report any viruses on disks 4-8, but I'm going to reformat them as well just in case.

By the way: After reformatting, should I copy the installation files back to the original disks orjust disregard the disks and rely soley on the copies? (I'm just asking this to make sure it's safe; I'd like to keep a "legal" copy of Windows 3.11 in my posession)

test the copy first before formatting the old floppies!
If you format them you might loose some needed information.
(for example the label of the floppy)

Win3.11 will even install from a harddisk folder. Copy all files from the floppys into one directory.

I wouldn't trust floppies anymore. Especially nowadays.

I long ago converted my 3.5" and 5.25" floppies to images using Winimage and then store backups of those images on external HD's or optical media. MUCH more reliable than floppies.....and it's not like your going to need to install from floppy every day. 😉

Agreed. Besides, nowadays you can even boot from USB pendrives, so floppies aren't needed that much anymore.

Oh my... are the floppies with it's days counted? are them going to simply disappear? 😳

Well, they're unreliable, slow, and hold too little data to be useful for most things these days. It's probably about time they died off.

I've got Windows 3.11 running successfully, so I suppose it's safe to format the original disks now. Thanks again for all the help (I'll probabalyhave to make a donation to express my gratiude properly).