Summary: Surprisingly the data may still be readable. Depends on how and where they were stored. If the data is important it shouldn't be that great a task....
Summary: I installed and configured the bios for a 1.2MB 5.25" Disk Drive . The jumpers are unchanged from when I took 2 identical drives from a computer . Th...
Summary: Thanks guys I just used format b:/c and chkdsk then It worked perfectley. Oh and go and check out how to put Windows 95 on 5.25 disks on Windows 95/98...
Summary: I have a 5.25" TEAC floppy drive in my computer, when I select it from windows without any floppy disk in it, the LED will light up and you can hear t...
Summary: anyone know where I can obtain an old 5.25 disk drive to get data off of it? Failing that, is there a way I can get the data off the disks??? ...
Summary: You need a conversion program, Apple format disks differently, you will probably need a MAC with both size drives so you can format a 3.5 floppy in DO...
Summary: I would like to install an old 5.25" floppy drive to read some old disks. I have two options: 1) in a PIII/ Win2k box (Vectra VL400) or 2) in a PII/ W...
Summary: I had XP and some more RAM put on my PC,so I used Roxio to save all my MP3's on to about 5 data disks (external cd writer)before this. Now with the u...
Summary: Glad to hear you got it sorted out. Out of curiousity. are you trying to recover stuff from some old media? If so, don't be surprised if many of the...
Summary: I need to access data on old 5.25 floppies. If I put an old 5.25 floppy drive in a small external enclosure with a power supply, how do I get the data...
Summary: I Have Proven It's Possible To Create A USB 5.25 Floppy Drive. You'll Need: 1 External (Reccomended)or External 5.25 Floppy Drive 1 Serial to USB for ...
Summary: Hi all, I was ramaging through my stuff the other day, and found a heap of 5.25 inch floppy discs. These were from an Apple II computer we had back i...
Summary: I need to get to old data now on 5.25 floppies. I found an old drive and cable, but my bios/cmos only offers 1.44 and 2.88 floppy options. Can anyon...
Summary: I took this old 5.25" floppy drive out of an old computer i had and then put it into my windows 98 machine and went in to the cmos to tell it that the...
Summary: i was thinking about getting a 3.5 to 5.25 hdd adapter so i can put my hdd closer to my dvd drive so i can set hdd to master dvd to slave and have my ...
Summary: I have an Epson dual floppy drive, an SD-880. Right now, only the 3.5 drive works. I found the jumper settings on the net and they are correct. The...
Summary: I have a 20GB "pocket" hard drive that connects to a USB port. I use it to backup files and then reformat the system drives so I can install new opera...
Summary: 3.5 floppy wants to go retro 5.25... Read some of your prior postings about this and followed your advice to no avail. Floppy was working fine up unt...
Summary: Hi, The problem I have is that i have a pc with a SATA mobo, I have an internal SATA HD in the pc. What i want to do is buy another SATA HD but i want...
Summary: This is a response to some two year old correspondence Hi, I got my 5.25 Teac FD-55GFR R going om a Cuple VM, 800 MHz motherboard running on Vista. I...
Summary: What do you mean 386 disks? Do you mean 5.25" floppy disks. If they are 5.25" disk then you might have problems. Read this thread and decide if i...
Summary: I have salvaged a Teact 5.25 FD 55GFR from a dead computer and want to run it as an external device that would connect to my PC via usb. Is there a ca...
Summary: I've seen others that have had 3.5 inch drives added, even earlier models like the Portable II. It's probably necessary to be compatible with other c...
Summary: kishkizzle Your last post implied that you were wondering if your native 1.2mb drives would work. The answer is yes, the drives were made backwards c...
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