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need old 5 1/4 floppy on XP
ggull wrote:
"Anthony wrote wrote ...... ggull wrote: .... But a related question. Is there such a thing as an external, say USB, 5.25" floppy drive? (I use an external 3.5" floppy when I need it.) or would it be easy to cobble something like that together? ..... Could one change out the 3.5 floppy drive for a 5.25 floppy drive in the USB external floppy drive? Would that cabling and/or electronics be compatable? May be moot since the OP hasn't replied. -- JD.. An alternative approach might be to try and find an old computer with a 5.25 drive on it. Enough of us don't throw stuff out quickly enough that one should be essentially valueless atticware somewhere. Thanks for the ideas. JD, sorry I was away for a while. Sure didn't seem like a week. Anthony's suggestion seems like it's likely the simplest. I did have someone who was going to give me their dual 5.25 / 3.5 inch machine when they upgraded, but they forgot and just tossed it. I'll have to try Freecycle and the MIT fleamarket, whatever it's called ... once I get rid of one or two of MY old towers! I see xerais also posted a link to a product that looks like a good option. Please let us know how Anthony's suggestion worked. Your problem is rather unique since not many of us have the need to access the old 5.25 drives. But it's nice to know what works in a special situation. -- JD.. |
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need old 5 1/4 floppy on XP
ggull wrote:
"Anthony wrote wrote ...... ggull wrote: .... But a related question. Is there such a thing as an external, say USB, 5.25" floppy drive? (I use an external 3.5" floppy when I need it.) or would it be easy to cobble something like that together? ..... Could one change out the 3.5 floppy drive for a 5.25 floppy drive in the USB external floppy drive? Would that cabling and/or electronics be compatable? May be moot since the OP hasn't replied. -- JD.. An alternative approach might be to try and find an old computer with a 5.25 drive on it. Enough of us don't throw stuff out quickly enough that one should be essentially valueless atticware somewhere. Thanks for the ideas. JD, sorry I was away for a while. Sure didn't seem like a week. Anthony's suggestion seems like it's likely the simplest. I did have someone who was going to give me their dual 5.25 / 3.5 inch machine when they upgraded, but they forgot and just tossed it. I'll have to try Freecycle and the MIT fleamarket, whatever it's called ... once I get rid of one or two of MY old towers! I see xerais also posted a link to a product that looks like a good option. Please let us know how Anthony's suggestion worked. Your problem is rather unique since not many of us have the need to access the old 5.25 drives. But it's nice to know what works in a special situation. -- JD.. |
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need old 5 1/4 floppy on XP
Smiles wrote:
Good day I have been given 2000 old 5.25floppy diskswith family records on them with out rebuilding a W98 box is there a way to set up XP to read the drive thanks Thanks for asking a very interesting question. It truly provokes a very interesting discussion. I knew there must be a reason to keep old computers--like the 3 I have in my workshop. |
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need old 5 1/4 floppy on XP
Smiles wrote:
Good day I have been given 2000 old 5.25floppy diskswith family records on them with out rebuilding a W98 box is there a way to set up XP to read the drive thanks Thanks for asking a very interesting question. It truly provokes a very interesting discussion. I knew there must be a reason to keep old computers--like the 3 I have in my workshop. |
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