road-runner Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 There are thousands of old programs to play around with and surprisingly in this age you can't find most of it on the internet. That's no surprise, it's getting hard to find drivers if you want to install xp on a newer mb, and that os is only 12 years old, it's all a plot to buy newer os's from microsoft. Everything is a plot to get you to spend money lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 Sorry but I don't even know why yo would bother, most mb's out in the last 2 years don't even have a floppy connector, and the disc's only hold 1.4 mb's of data when they did work and weren't very reliable.I think the last time I used one was to load windows 98. But good luck if you decide to do it. You still used floppies for Win 98? I have Win 95 CDs laying around! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) Sorry but I don't even know why yo would bother, most mb's out in the last 2 years don't even have a floppy connector, and the disc's only hold 1.4 mb's of data when they did work and weren't very reliable.I think the last time I used one was to load windows 98. But good luck if you decide to do it. You still used floppies for Win 98? I have Win 95 CDs laying around! Yup, me to, but you needed a floppy to get it to boot off the 98 disk, and to format the hd you had to use the floppy, you young bucks don't know how easy you have it today.LOL ! Edited July 22, 2013 by SpikeSoprano Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohldboy Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 Do not know if IDE to SATA converter would work, these are intended for IDE hard drives. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812226024 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812206002 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ide+to+sata Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivangela Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 Road-runner, thanks for the offer but obviously not important enough for all that. as for the links thanks all, I'll check it out! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted July 22, 2013 Posted July 22, 2013 Buying an external USB powered floppy drive should solve your problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 (edited) Buying an external USB powered floppy drive should solve your problem.Except that the OP is talking about 5 1/4" disk drives, not 3 1/2". Edited July 23, 2013 by Andrewr05 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrinobear Posted September 24, 2013 Posted September 24, 2013 Maybe some kind of PCI floppy controller would work? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethk Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 Claims to read 1.44MB floppys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) Claims to read 1.44MB floppys. Buying an external USB powered floppy drive should solve your problem.Except that the OP is talking about 5 1/4" disk drives, not 3 1/2". Edited September 25, 2013 by Andrewr05 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethk Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) Didn't kyfire say that 5 1/4 floppys are 1.44mbs? Edited September 25, 2013 by kennethk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyfire Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 Didn't kyfire say that 5 1/4 floppys are 1.44mbs? yea I did but I was cornfuzzled...3 1/2 are 1.44 . 5 1/2 floppies only hold between 130 to 360kB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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