To determine if a PC's motherboard supports 5.25" drives, usually just enter the BIOS setup and see if it lets you change the drive type and if "1.2mb" or "360k" drives are allowed as options. As mentioned a Windows9x machine or a machine you can dual-boot to DOS is often a better choice. Its format support is rather ridged so it will probably only read standard 1.2mb formatted disks and 360k disks. If I recall correctly, Windows XP supports 1.2mb 5.25" drives. ) Thanks in advance for your help - wish they made a USB 5.25 drive other than Device Side Data's Read-Only FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller (I'm not even sure they're in business anymore). And the data recovery services out there want ridiculous amounts to do it (one service was charging $25 a diskette and no bulk pricing. I know it's old tech, but I need to transfer off a bunch of genealogy data and pictures that a deceased relative painstakingly had saved to boxes of 5.25" floppy diskettes decades ago. the last time I did that on an Acer, I ruined the FD controller on the mobo. I'm hesitant from just plugging in and going. I have the 5.25" TEAC drive, have the FD universal ribbon cable that has 3.5 and 5.25 drive connectors. And all the DYI videos just show adding/removing the OEM Dell 3.5" floppy. Couldn't find anything on Tom's Hardware. I've researched everywhere I know of (Google wasn't too much of a friend this time LOL) to see if a Dell Dimension 3000 controller would support both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.
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