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5 1/4 floppy on win 2000 professional

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i was needing to know can win 2000 read a 5 1/4 floppy drive a friend has some data on 5 1/4 floppies an he simply wants them copies to 3 1/2 disk

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Plug it in, it will work fine as long as you set it up in the BIOS. I have a 5 1/4" drive on one of my systems.

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Name: Peter
Date: August 28, 2002 at 04:27:40 Pacific

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does anyone have an external 5.25 drive that can be attached through the parallel prot, that they want to sell?

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