Hi,<BR><BR>I have a friend with a stack of old 5 1/4" floppies, and she has just decided that she wants the data that's stored on them. Perhaps foolishly, I agreed to see what I could do.<BR><BR>I ...

With the 5.25" drive installed and set as the correct drive for the A drive in the BIOS, Windows recognizes the drive as 5 1/4" floppy A, but is unable to read any discs put in the drive.

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin ...

The reasons to use the 3 1/2-inch disks -- developed by Sony in the early 1980s as a smaller, sturdier, higher-capacity replacement for their 5 1/4-inch predecessors -- have been dwindling for years.

The floppy disk was widely used in 3.5 and 5 1/4 inch formats - and was also available in 8 inch format. According to information from the blog "Augen geradeaus" , this is exactly what is required ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine and ...

I had a guy come to me with 5.25 disk he needed (wanted) to get the data off of. I have several pc drives for this (4 to be exact) but the computer i had was a clunky old 386 running DOS 3.11 with ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

The smallest USB key has far greater capacity than a 1.44MB 3.5-inch disk, fits in a pocket, and works almost exactly like a disk drive. The only hitch is that a USB key cant boot a PC—yet.