5 1/4 under XP

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Name: Andy11
Date: October 30, 2004 at 06:16:22 Pacific
Subject: 5 1/4 under XP
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: P4 3.0gHz; 512MB RAM

Comment:

Was just wondering if 5 1/4" disk drives and disks still work under XP.
-Andrew

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Response Number 1

Name: name
Date: October 30, 2004 at 08:49:32 Pacific

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Depends on your defintion of "work."
I have one here on my Athalon, X tra P utrid 2.5 ghz, to archive old software, and burn to cd's.
I imagine if you would actually try to run some of that old software, directly off your 5 1/4 drive, while running XP, you may just have problems.
The only issue I know of, does the bios of your motherboard actually support this drive?
I have at least one old (Gateway?) board that won't support anything other than a 3 1/2 drive.

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Response Number 2

Name: OtheHill
Date: October 30, 2004 at 11:00:16 Pacific

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If you mean do the 5 1/4" drives work under WinXP then the answer is this. If the BIOS can see the drive then I believe that any version of windows should be able to access any kind of drive.

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Response Number 3

Name: ham30
Date: October 30, 2004 at 11:34:45 Pacific

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Yes, it's the motherboard that determines if you can connect a floppy drive or not. If it has a slot for the cable, then you are in business.

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Response Number 4

Name: neotms88
Date: October 30, 2004 at 12:36:11 Pacific

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Yes WIn XP supports 5.25 floppies, but it can NOT format them, it can only format 3.5" 1.44 mb floppies. As previsouly posted- you will need the right cable, and the support in the BIOS.

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