If you can find a 5.25" USB floppy drive let me know - I want one! I
never did find one.
But I might be able to help you out with an actual drive. You'll need an
old CPU with an FD drive and the appropriate cable. I've been migrating
my data too and find that I have a low rate of success with the 5.25"
floppies. But it's still better than nothing.
Contact me offline.
FWIW I have a 3.5" USB floppy drive and it works surprisingly well.
Pretty inexpensive too.
My data migration project makes me soooo happy that floppies are a thing
of the past.
Related to this: I inherited about a dozen 8" floppies apparently with
data. Anyone out there have a drive?
Judah
On 10/25/19 5:39 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:
you can get USB floppy drives, i've had a friend 1 or 2 years ago come
to me solving their old data problem. worked just fine.
On 10/25/19 11:35 PM, Howard Sanner wrote:
Is this thing still on?
Does anyone know where I might get a working 5.25" floppy drive,
preferably a 1.2 MB drive?
I am trying to help a friend migrate a database that it took him many
years to create to more modern media. I suspect there are data
conversion services that can do this, but, at least for the moment,
we're going to try the do it yourself route. Re-creating the database
from source documents would be impractical to impossible, even if my
friend's health permitted trying, which it does not.
Thanks for any ideas you may have.
Howard Sanner
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