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Topic "Floppy drive" was discussed 8,732 times on 895 sites in last 3 months
Started 3 days, 22 hours ago (2009-12-04 15:27:00)
by mkstabd
Is there such a thing as an external floppy cable terminator? My S-100 system can run with 2 or 3 8" floppies at a time. 2 of the drives are in the dual enclosure with one terminated. But when I add the 3rd external drive to the chain, I currently have to pull the terminators off the 2nd drive, which means popping the case open. I'd prefer to just keep the end of the cable terminated and add/...
Started 5 days, 1 hour ago (2009-12-03 11:37:00)
by mbaldw
Hi folks, last night I removed the floppy drive from my PC (I never use it and plan to replace it with a caddy of USB and card reader slots). The removal went fine, but upon firing the computer up it stopped during post saying it had encoundered an error "40" associated with the floppy drive. I hit DEL to enter the BIOS and disabled boot option 3 (which was the floppy), saved and ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-30 20:32:00)
by mkstabd
I just completed some cleanup work on my dual floppy drive enclosure (QumeTrak 842 drives) and ran into something that confused me. Perhaps one of you has seen this before and can provide some insight. After using my system a lot over the past week, I noticed the drive doors were starting to stick a little bit. Sometimes, the drive would open right up with no problem. Other times, it would ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-30 12:30:00)
by dontfeedjay
Ok, just recently (less than one day ago) I gained an emulated floppy drive (A:) on my computer. This makes no sense as I have not installed one. I noticed it after I defragmented my hard drives and then went to play a game which told me to disable all emulation software. Does anyone have any idea why I suddenly received this drive? I am currently using Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit....
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-29 15:07:00)
by uncleandy
When I try to copy a file (excel, notebook etc.) to a diskette in Drive (A:) the system reboots because of a BlueScreen Error. It says the problem is caused by a device or driver. The solutions are to install the latest updates, scan for viruses and check the hard disk for errors. I have the latest updates, there are no viruses and no errors on the hard disk. I CAN copy a file to a diskette ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-29 14:29:00)
by macula
I have an Amstrad 1512DD in fine working condition, together with a pile of 360KB 5.25" floppy disks containing lots of vintage games, apps and my own age work. I am seeking a way to connect a 5.25" drive to a USB port? Now being a Mac user with no PCs left at home I have no other way of porting my data on a hard disk. Any ideas? Thank you....
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-29 11:00:00)
by macula
I have an Amstrad 1512DD in fine working condition, together with a pile of 360KB 5.25" floppy disks containing lots of vintage games, apps and my own teenage work. I am seeking a way to connect a 5.25" drive to a USB port? Now being a Mac user with no PCs left at home I have no other way of porting my data on a hard disk. Any ideas? Thank you.
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-28 18:49:00)
by Mark Casebolt
Whenever i insert a floppy drive disk in the drive and click to open it flashes up on the screen for an instant then dissapears without any error warnings.The system says the drive is working fine and that all the drivers are installed.My Task manager does the same thing .I go to Run and type in task manager and it pops up but when i trying to open it it flashes up for a second and then its gone...
Started 6 days, 14 hours ago (2009-12-01 22:54:00)
by sagemage
HI, does anyone know where I can purchase a brand new 5.25" floppy disk drive? It should look something like this: I'd also like it in black, because thats the colour of my case. Thanks
Started 3 days, 19 hours ago (2009-12-04 17:57:00)
by ZOBEX
Well like it was posted, orginally this thread started out trying to move files from the 360k floppies to the Apple. There are any number of ways to do that. I can't imagine what use an XT would have writing to files on any floppy outside of the DOS standard of 360-720-1.2-1.44 . That can as we have seen, by SCSI, parallel port and now via a smart USB interface. All relating to the original ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-30 17:31:00)
by Bronze Storage badge Paperdoc
If you're going to install Windows so that it boots from the RAID array, then you will have to install early in the process the RAID drivers from an external source. Up to Win XP, the only external device the Install routines could access was a floppy drive. But in both Vista and Win 7, they also can use a USB flash drive as the medium containing the drivers - that is hinted at in the first ...
Started 3 days, 5 hours ago (2009-12-05 07:46:00)
by Skip1943_61
I have a dual booting COMPAQ SR5010NX running Windows XP and Windows 7, have 2 Gb System Memory, and Radeon Graphics Card with 1 Gb Memory. I recently purchased a Memorex External Floppy Drive; so far, have had no problems, I did not have to install any drivers, the system took care of any downloads required if there were any needed. The drive immediately showed [A] Drive as 3 1/2 ich Floppy ...
