How To Convert Akai S1100 Floppy Disc Samples To Software Sampler Files. Options

[martinf63]

Back in the mid 90s I did a sound engineering course, and part of the course-work was to multi sample instruments and make a track using just the sampler. Over the period of the course I created many sample programs and sampled many instruments. I used the Akai S1100 sampler and I have many floppy discs filled with samples and programs.
After finishing the course I tried to get a job in the music or film industry but after three years I was unable to find anything suitable so I gave up and found a 9-5 job working for the NHS. It has taken me this long to save up and buy some audio equipment and a home computer based studio.

I am using both an iMac and a Macbook pro using Halion 3, Kontakt 3 and the EXS24 Sampler in Logic Studio.

Can anybody tell me how I can convert the samples on floppy disc from the Akai S1100 to any filetype that one of my soft samplers listed above can use? I have a USB floppy disc drive but the Akai floppys don't seem to be recognised by my Mac's operating system. I am running OS 10.4.11 on the iMac and OS 10.5.1 on the Macbook pro.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[martinf63]

The problem is that when I insert any of the floppy discs into my floppy drive, there seems to be no files on the disc at all. My computer sees them as blank discs. This happens on all of the floppy discs, so therefore I have no files to convert. I have tried to see if it will work on a windows based computer, but the same things happen. Could the floppy discs have been erased over the last 12 - 15 years? I have stored them away from direct sunlight and magnetic fields. I need to find a way for my computer or any computer to recognise the files on the floppy discs. Is there a way I can see what files are on the floppy discs, whether they are incompatible files or invisible files?
Once I can see the files, I can then try to convert them, to be used in one of the software samplers.