Sorry, this is a tough one. The external USB floppy drives other people have pointed to are for 3.5" disks. There is (to my knowledge) no USB floppy drive for 5.25" disks. One person suggested a IDE to USB converter. This, however, only works with hard drives, not with floppy drives (IDE floppy drives have different connectors and cable size). Your only chance with this is to find an old computer with a 5.25." drive, which motherboard *and* BIOS caters for floppy drives. Newer motherboards have neither the bus connector for floppy drives nor the BIOS option to activate it. Maybe if you find someone with an old Pentium I/II/III computer (or buy an old computer on eBay, if you can find it), you might be able to do this. Cf. http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?28172-USB-5-25-quot-Floppy-Drive
Best,
Alex
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Betreff: Reading 5.25 Floppy Discs
A colleague in the Museum has asked if we might be able to recover data from a 5.25 inch floppy disc.
Like many of you we have disposed of all the devices we had that used this format but I wondered if anyone here might be able to suggest someone who still has the ability to read these discs ?
John
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