Today I got a 5 1/4" floppy drive that I bought on eBay. This one have been tested and recalibrated before shipping. Nice old 1,2mb drive. Wanted one to be able to copy and back up old data from my 8088 PC.
Very cramped inside the case now, but it fits! Had to move a couple of cables and change one out with a longer type.
Even got this nice transport cardboard piece.
Enabled the drive in BIOS and booted up. Worked like a charm.
The old games even started up. Although not playable, as the CPU is too fast. The computer these programs are made to run on is 4,66MHz, not 200. 😀
Last note, which isn't fun at all.... After copying 4 disks, the drive stopped working! It registers in Windows, it gives that sound all floppy drives does when booting the computer and I can hear the disk spin inside. It simply doesn't want to read disks all the sudden... DOS gives a general read error, while Windows insists that all disks are not formatted. Any suggestions? Would be a shame if I spent $70 on something that broke within the first 15 minutes of use...
Win7: Intel i7-4960X CPU, ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard, nVidia GeForce GTX780Ti x2, 16gb 1866MHz DDR3 RAM, 120gb SSD OS
Win98SE: AMD K6 200MHz CPU, aOpen motherboard, ATi 3D Rage II, Voodoo2 SLI, GUS MAX 1mb, SB AWE64 Gold, 256mb SDRAM, 20gb HDD