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I wound up reformatting the hard drive of a laptop *before* my mother told me that the CD-ROM didn't work.

Had to go out to the drugstore and buy some so that I could do a floppy install. It took *forever*, and isn't something I wish to do again. Moral of the story? When someone gives you an old computer, ASK what doesn't work first. I assumed "there's nothing wrong with it, I just don't use it anymore" signified that it was okay to just wipe it clean.

I still have a bunch of floppies lying down with MP3 files that I downloaded way back in the day (one to a disk, of course) - and there are some random old documents out there in a box somewhere.