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I have 2 10 year computers, AMD 2400 & 2100 with Radeon 9700 and 800XT video cards. They game old games but they have one thing that I need - floppy drives for accessing my data on 5.25 and 3.5 floppies. I could replace them both if I can find a modern dual floppy drive, or a new motherboard that has floppy capability, or use a PCI card adapter that lets you use a floppy connector to a floppy drive. Anyone know any of these?
Tried some old games but they don't work on Windows 7. Like Bards Tale and Homeworld.
I could just make my current main desktop the replacement computer if I can fit my old Teac Dual floppy drive on it. Need a floppy PCI adapter. Anyone know of one? Then I'll use a spare 1 tb hd with XP SP3 on it for old video games.
When it comes to the data, just get that moved to a thumb drive and call it a day (seriously, why keep data on such old media?). If you still need a 3.5" floppy, there are plenty of cheap USB ones out there.
Compatability mode in W7 runs just about everything, but if it won't work for your purpose, just segment a drive and create a dual-boot system.
When it comes to the data, just get that moved to a thumb drive and call it a day (seriously, why keep data on such old media?). If you still need a 3.5" floppy, there are plenty of cheap USB ones out there.
Compatability mode in W7 runs just about everything, but if it won't work for your purpose, just segment a drive and create a dual-boot system.
No need to overthink this one.
The problem with this that older versions of Windows might (probably) won't have drivers that are compatible with the new hardware.... The OP doesn't mention what version of Windows the old boxes are running so it's pretty hard to know.
Funny, I just realized my current computer had a FDD connector -- Asus P6T Deluxe V1. So all I have to do is remove one sli 460 and plop in a FDD cable and floppy drive. Will experiment in the future!
Out of curiosity why is it so important to have a floppy drive? Literally ANYTHING you have on them could be copied to another more modern medium. Even games that were originally on floppies can be copied to any kind of storage and installed from there. It just really seems like you are trying to do this for the sake of doing it, with no real reason why.
Out of curiosity why is it so important to have a floppy drive? Literally ANYTHING you have on them could be copied to another more modern medium. Even games that were originally on floppies can be copied to any kind of storage and installed from there. It just really seems like you are trying to do this for the sake of doing it, with no real reason why.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I just don't get it, why would you want to keep using old outdated technology? It could all be copied over to an inexpensive usb external hard drive and the problem is solved.
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