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by jbrown8116 on October 18th, 2007

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I have old 5 1/4" floppy disks that I want to get the data from. I installed an old 5 1/4" floppy drive into a fairly newer computer. I can see that it powers up but the computer won't see it? Any Ideas?

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  • by Gnathos on November 9th, 2007

    Gnathos

    Does Walmart have 5 1/4 outboard drives or just 3 1/2?

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  • by Karl Plesz on October 19th, 2007

    Karl Plesz

    There are many possibilities. The drive may be toast. The BIOS may not be set up to recognize a floppy drive. The cable may be the wrong type. Floppy drive cables have a twist in certain wires that identifies the A: drive from the B: drive. If you hook the drive up to the middle connector versus the end connector, it won't work. The cable may be backwards. Some new motherboards don't have a slot to connect floppy drives. You may need to force Windows to detect the new drive by adding it.

    The big question - does it show up in the post screen that reports what hardware is detected right before Windows starts?

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  • by yoman on October 18th, 2007

    yoman

    Go to wal-mart or cheap electronics store and buy a USB floppy drive, they are like ten to twenty bucks, that have a driver that shows to the computer as a "flash drive" it should allow you to continue using your floppys a little while longer

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  • by steveISTC on November 22nd, 2010

    steveISTC

    I have old computers running DOS. If you like I can give you a quote on transferring the data. How many disks? What format do you want for the new data storage device?
    SteveISTC@hotmail.com

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