Is it possible to use an old 360 KB 5.25" drive in a newish system running Windows 7? BIOS support is there but what will Windows make of it? I know it won't format old disks but can it read and write to them?
What about Windows 8 and 10?
Is this too much voodoo?
Even on WinXP it is not possible to format 5,25" disks.
But you have a 34pin Disk connector on your mainboard? On mine it is missing.
wrote:Even on WinXP it is not possible to format 5,25" disks.
But you have a 34pin Disk connector on your mainboard? On mine it is missing.
I had no problem formatting 1.2mb 5.25 floppy on Windows XP. I doubt windows 7 would be any different.
AFAIK Windows 8 is the last version that still has support for internal floppy drives (34 pin connector). From what I read Windows 10 dropped support for those, but then find me a modern board that still has a floppy controller (industrial hardware does not count). However USB floppy drives still work at least.
wrote:However USB floppy drives still work at least.
But these are all 3.5" only.
Haven't tried myself, but there's a low-level driver called "fdrawcmd.sys" which should re-add full floppy support to Windows up to 8.
Windows 10 dropped support for native floppy drives. But there's a workaround, I heard. It involves copying files from Windows 7.
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