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Reading 5.25" disks

  • 04-05-2011 9:06am
    #1
    Oldhack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    Does anyone know where I could find a computer or drive to read old 5.25" disks?


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Unless you can find someone with a machine from the early nineties, then a data recovery company would be your best bet. Hand them a stack of disks and they can giv it all back to you on CD.


  • #3
    Oldhack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Oldhack


    Thanks, Seamus. I thought it would be easy find someone with an old computer but "old" in computer terms doesn't seem to stretch to 20 years.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I'm sure there are a handful of old machines around the place with 5.25" disks. Getting them up and running is one thing, managing to get the data off the disks is another. I'm not sure if you could connect a 5.25" drive to a modern machine, but the connector is probably the same that's been on 3.5" drives for 15 years.

    An interesting project certainly if anyone finds a very old machine in an attic somewhere.


  • #5
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    5.25 aren't old they're ancient!

    I've never seen a drive like that and i am working in an IT helpdesk for the last 13 years
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