Summary: Yes I have had problems reading old 5.25 floppies. I wanted to load win 3.1 onto an old 486, but the disks were far to damaged. As for your case you...
Summary: Does anyone know off the bat where I can find 5.25 inch diskettes 1.2mb. I have gone everywhere today trying to find some for an old, but working, 286...
Summary: Thanks for the replies. anenefan. I examined all the floppies by turning them in their jackets and there is no color variation. The Sony floppies were...
Summary: Thanks to all three of you for responding.Yes ,I am relatively new to all of this. I have downloaded DOS 6.22 boot to a 3.5 floppy,DOS 7.1 to an exter...
Summary: I got two new floppy drives: one to replace my existing 3.5" floppy drive (that broke), and one to replace my old 5.25" floppy drive. Since my 3.5" b...
Summary: Since I wrote the message about not being able to boot my compaq port II from the C drive , I finally got it to work. I had to use a program called fd...
Summary: I have a very old PC for my kids I'm trying to add a 3.25" floppy drive to the system to make it more compatable. I wanted to know how to install new ...
Summary: I have a 5.25" floppy drive which is the relatively recent standard of 80 tracks / 15 spt / 1.2 Mb. I have a floppy from an old DOS machine [circa 19...
Summary: I have a 10-year-old DOS 720K floppy. When I try to read it using Windows 2000 I get a message requesting to reformat the disk (fatal, right?). When ...
Summary: Hi, I was rummaging around in my basement the other day and found our OLD computer, it's a Compaq Deskpro, which was pruchased in 1985 - 86. It has a ...
Summary: You don't mention what type of computer you're using. Remember there are 4 different kinds of basic floppy drives: 1. 1.44mb 3.5" high density flopp...
Summary: I need dos 4.01 boot disk my drive is 5.25 old xt copmputer drive is 360 kb please help me or send boot ziped files on my email stronger@sayber.net ...
Summary: I found some programs that are on 5.25" and I would like to use them, however, I cannot figure out how to copy them to 3.5 disks. I have an old 286 se...
Summary: i have it on my other comp..but that has a $#!@!! 5.25 floppy. i got some stuff off of it but setting up a server with procomm (2.4) is S--L--O--W. pl...
Summary: I have a 286 computer with a 5.25 floppy drive. A second floppy was added(3.5 drive). Error messages come up when it is turned on. I went into set-up ...
Summary: If you have the original 5.25" floppies, suggest you do not write to them. Use them to read from only and copy the files elsewhere. Check for any hid...
Summary: You really can't replace the A drive in a computer like this with a 3.5" floppy drive. It would be useful to have a 3.5" B drive, but the Compaq setu...
Summary: I'm in Dublin, Ireland and got the 5150 from across the Pond in the good ol' US of A. The plate says 120 V, no switches on the outside. I haven't open...
Summary: Can anyone help with this? One of our computers will not proceed past the SCSI check upon boot-up. Here is the story, if it helps: We are a non-profit...
Summary: Trying to install IBM DOS 3.1 With IBM 5.25" floppy in drive, machine boots up and get DTK Corp DTK/ERSO/BIOS 2.42 (c) 1986 RAM TEST .. 640K SEAGATE ...
Summary: This thread seems to have gone far deeper than it should. These early pc's sometimes came with just one fdd that worked, although with far smaller pro...
Summary: Hahahaha! No seriously, you want to put Win3.1 onto a PC with 5.25" floppy drives? My 386 which had 3.5" floppy drive struggled very badly with Win3.1...
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