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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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 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 files on 5.25" floppies, indeed I just copied some onto 5.25" floppies, from a PC being scrapped. My problem is now getting them on a hard disk...
Summary: Yeah, first check in the bios. If a 1.2 floppy drive option doesn't show there, you're out of luck. You'd need to do the transfer using another PC. ...
Summary: Does the floppy show up during the POST screens? If not, you may have the cabling wrong. If you are using both an A and a B drive you need to have o...
Summary: You will need a 5.25" floppy drive to read the data, if it is still readable. I suggest you check with vendors that specialize in reselling used equi...
Summary: Thanks for responding. I need to read old 5.25 floppies. I also wanted to run the Teac on several different PCs at different locations, including a l...
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: Which floppy disc are you talking about - the 5ΒΌ-inch minifloppy or the 3.5 Inch floppy disk? What do you plan to do with them - backup files? i_Xp...
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: 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...
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'm wondering if anyone knows of a program that will display the speed of a floppy drive as it's running. I need to knock down the speed of a Teac F...
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: minor problem here: tried to use a dos 6.2 boot disk on my pc. pc normally runs windows xp. much expectedly, the boot disk didnt work quite the way...
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: I assume you mean a 1.2Mb 5.25" floppy? Essentially, all you should need is the drive and a floppy cable that also has card edge connectors on it. htt...
Summary: Thanks I think I have the twist now lined up with pin one--(assuming pin 1 is marked with a little arrow on the floppy I tried some other things with ...
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