You can use 5.25" drives in modern pcs as long as they have a floppy connector. My dell optiplex 320 has a floppy connector on it. I have used them under xp. I will see if it works with another os today. Seriously.

It depends on the motherboard
 

Some motherboards support them.

Dell, unfortunately,mdoes not.

However, this does:

http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html

This will let you read those disks on windows.

No longer have the drive. Still have a few 8" floppies.

Clever guy. :lol:

The lesson is make copies of the files you care about when switching to a new computer. Duh. Two or three computers ago I had one that had both a slot for floppies and a CD rom drive. Should have converted those floppies then. Oh well.

We're talking about floppies, not a cure for floppiness.

:lol2:

no, I'm pretty sure we were talking about the latter. tw is very subtle when he works blue.

Well said, jim. He's very funny. :)

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