External 5.25 inch floppy drive

[Ramiroo]

Anybody who knows if there are some external 5.25 inch floppy drives accessible or what would be occupied in generate the same one? I know somebody who has just rediscover a hoard of old 5.25 inch, 1.2MB floppies with secret information on them, and who now needs to get to the data before the floppies are all go in an awful condition. But it's at the present a laptop-only a house-hold, so installing a 5.25 inch drive isn't an option available with someone of you. Please help me out form this trouble what I have. Any help related to this topic will be appreciated. Thank you in advanced.

[Gonzo]

You may locate it easier and cheaper to get an old 1.2 meg drive at a computer salvage/surplus accumulate and install it into a desktop computer system really a pretty easy process if there is a 5.25 bay obtainable you can also take away the CD drive for the period of the project and use to build certain you get the ribbon cable with the drive. Some information that may share to your procedure. Disks that elderly may previously have troubles if there are read troubles, put the disks in a conserved zip lock bag and put the container into the stop overnight then take each one out independently and attempt it in the drive. You must be confident that the disks are 1.2 meg? If not, keep in mind at the opening of the computer rebellion that there were a number of different operating system around and that floppies from one system were not readable by another operating system for example, almost every different cp/m mfg used a different disk format, and apple used a drive design that was incompatible with any non apple computer.

[Pugsly]

I have come to your problem what you are asking but I can’t able to get it what you wanted to say do you want the External 5.25 inch floppy drive or you want to purchase it a new one for your computer system. Please give me the proper information such that I can go for the proper decision to help you from this situation.

[Ramiroo]

I want to take the new External 5.25 inch floppy drive for my computer system. Do you have the idea by which I can make the correct selection for the External 5.25 inch floppy drive for my computer system. Please help me out from this trouble what I am facing with the External 5.25 inch floppy drive. It will be really very appreciable.

[Pugsly]

For going to take the new External 5.25 inch floppy drive I think you have to go to some sites like e-bay.com or either amazon.com where you can easily get the External 5.25 inch floppy drive as per your convenience. I hope this will really help you to solve your trouble with the External 5.25 inch floppy drive.