How do i install a new floppy drive

Stephen Kitt Stephen Kitt Thanks, makes sense. I have checked out the links from that question, and the prices are about 3x what I'd pay a USB one. I like the "[ This may give new life to a perfectly functional PC that is just obsolete. Just shove floppy drives into the PC and save the contents. Thank you very much for the suggestion : I simply need a way to write the image of my simple OS on average floppy disks, so cheapness is more important than exoticism, at least for now.

If I'll ever need to port my OS to some older or less commin machines, I'll surely check out your suggestion! A USB floppy should do then. I found one on Amazon, 31 EUR or so. That's almost three times as much as what you said, but the only one with reviews around your price slightly above would have a fairly long shipping time. Let's hope it will work, thanks again! In similar line with FluxEngine, there's also the "Greaseweazle" which is built on an even cheaper STM32 platform: github.

I recently tried the FluxEngine approach to archive Amiga disks, and it works quite well. DarkDust DarkDust 8 8 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Can those solutions only read from floppies or can they also write? That would be the most important part for me, I need to test a simple OS on an older machine that can only boot from floppy.

For the sake of completeness: It is possible to burn a bootable CD, where the bootable part is basically a floppy image. Also, all kind of virtualization solutions should work with floppy images. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Newer computers and operating systems no longer support internal floppy disk drives.

If you still need access to a floppy disk drive, we suggest purchasing an external USB floppy disk drive that is compatible with your version of Windows or Mac. If you are installing a floppy disk drive to replace a faulty one, disconnect all cables from the current floppy drive and then remove it from the system. Most systems require that a screw or set of screws be removed before the drive can be extracted. Other drives are attached to a removable bracket that can be pulled out by pressing and holding two tabs.

If you do not see any screws, some systems may hold the drive with a screw on the front of the case. Open the computer case and connect the floppy drive to the computer using screws or a bracket. After installing the floppy drive, connect the floppy interface cable small gray flat cable to the back of the floppy drive. The floppy cable has a side with a blue or red line indicating pin number one. This side of the cable points to the power connection.

Try to locate a machine from the beige G3 era that still shipped with floppies. LowEndMac also has a wonderful guide to Mac floppy disk formats. Good luck! Use Google Fonts in Word. Use FaceTime on Android Signal vs. Customize the Taskbar in Windows What Is svchost. Best Smartwatches. Best Gaming Laptops. Best Smart Displays. Best Home Security Systems. Best External Solid State Drives. Best Portable Chargers.

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