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: Hi all, is there anyone know where is in the US (WA state or other places in the US or Canada)can I transfer/convert my program in the 5.25 floopy dis...
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: Carl and Ivo, thank you for your responses. Carl I looked into your suggestions, and I can't see how I can use disk factory to solve my problem. Tha...
Summary: Maybe I should have said "How much information does a 5.25" floppy disk hold?" A 3.5 " floppy holds 1.44 mb. Right ? A 5.25" floppy holds ........... ...
Summary: Hi jack sewell: There are 2 ways I can think of to copy from a 5.25" floppy to a 3.5" floppy. First if you have one 5.25" you can setup as your slave ...
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 just found an old 5.25" disk with a label that marks it as a project of mine from HS or maybe even Jr. HS, probably late 80's. I pulled an old 5 ...
Summary: Yeah, they had drive select jumpers (DS). There were usually 4 DS numbers, either 0 to 3 or 1 to 4. With a twisted cable, you'd set the drives to th...
Summary: I tried to hook up a 5.25" floppy drive to both of my computers, so I can get data off old disks. I tried on both my P200 Win98 machine and my 1.2g A...
Summary: Hmmm. First point: I have a program written in 1979 for the DOS machines back then. This program works perfectly on WindowsXP Pro. All that to say tha...
