Comments on: The Sad Tale of the 5.25″ Disk Drive

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:49 +0000

As of yet I have not.

By: Ari

Ari — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:51:47 +0000

Did you by any chance find an USB adaptor for 5.25 diskette drives?
An answer will be appreciated.
Thanks, Ari

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:23:40 +0000

Thanks for thinking of me, but this isn’t what is needed. This will work for hard drives, DVD/CD-rom drives, but I am specifically speaking of 5.25″ floppy drives. There are even 3.5″ floppy-to-USB drives. So no, the search continues.

By: Jason Gallagher

Jason Gallagher — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:52:44 +0000

Jason,

I think this is what you need. I just found this. I have not used one myself, but I am thinking about it, because I have the same problem you do. If you buy one of these, let me know if it works.

http://www.psism.com/usbtosata.htm

—Jason

By: Lee Bacall

Lee Bacall — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:11:12 +0000

Dude, If you find a 5.25 floppy drive let me know. I have two applications that I want to get out of mothballs:

Auto rental system

Wholesale travel system

Fleet maintenance Did you know that you need a permit for certified minnows to fish in New York state?

By: Rob "Flack" O'Hara

Rob "Flack" O'Hara — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:27:49 +0000

IIRC, 3 1/2 drives and 5 1/4 drives connected the same way. Is there an actual, technical reason why a USB 5 1/4 drive hasn’t been created, or is it just due to a lack of interest? I have a couple of USB 3 1/2 floppies … I wonder if one of those could be hacked into a 5 1/4 drive?

By: RaD Man

RaD Man — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:51:13 +0000

I transfer my old 5.25″ diskettes from an old computer running MS-DOS and LAN manager.

By: DosFreak

DosFreak — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:06:27 +0000

When I imaged my disks I did hook it up “internally” (connected to internal cable put not in the case).

My reasoning for hooking it via USB was for cases where I did run into a situation where I wanted to image a 5.25 disk but I didn’t want to rummage around looking for the cable/drive and opening the case.

Basically futureproofing the hardware since nowadays there are even motherboards the floppy connector.

By: Herr Doktor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Deth Vegetable — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:44:12 +0000

I am confused… why not just put a 5 1/4 drive in your computer, why does it need to be external? Is it just a case of not having any extra bays?

By: DosFreak

DosFreak — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:57:56 +0000

I imaged all of my 5.25″ disks years ago. IIRC, I was on Windows 2000 when I did it and I believe my 5.25″ worked fine on my Ausus A7N8X Nforce 2 motherboard.

I once though about taking a look at a USB floppy, taking it apart and hooking it up to the 5.25″ but I didn’t have a reason to since I already imaged all of my disks and haven’t seen a 5.25″ disk since.