Installing 5 1⁄4 inch floppy drive on Windows 7!

Yeah, I used a floppy cable that had the correct connectors. I'll post a link to what it looks like in the description. In addition to the ribbon cable I also had to adjust one setting in the BIOS and them *bam* I can haz archaic floppy drive! :)

You're sick! :D

now do 8" drive

Oh man! I wonder if that's possible... Only one way to find out I guess!

Terrific... wonder where I could find/buy one of these old 5.25 floppy drives!

I found a factory sealed box of ten disks the other day, I bought them as novelty but they are infact all brand new.

Wow! I bet you could sell those on eBay for quite a lot!

I want to do this!!! But with the 3.5" floppies too!

Right on! I always found that those 3.5" floppy disks didn't get lost nearly as much as USB sticks.

i never got the chance to use a 5 1/4 floppy disc. i started at 3 1/2 :( this is the answer to why win7 have the 5 1/4 icon.

I demand 8 inch

I got 2 of those! from a really old pc Ive found. I wonder if I could do the same?

I have a late 90's floppy drive module from one of those old dell laptops in the shape of a square and ran on XP. Well i plugged it in my Windows 8 Dell 660s, and what do you know! I have an external floppy drive for my computer that works!

I used to use 5-and-a-quarter floppies back in elementary school. And this was up until 2003, when I switched over to 3-and-a-half floppies.

Me too, I still have electronics dating back to the mid '80's like Atari 800 and the later ST 512 and more. Lots of AT cases and power supplies, cables, mobos, cpus, monitors, drawing/graphics pads with styluses, clam shell hand held devices -- you know: junk.... It's sad really. I could donate it to the local recycle groups but....

Ok interesting. Question for you does the ribbon that the 5.25 floppy use just a normal ide? The connection on the back of 5.25 floppy drives looks like some sort of cart output. I dont know to much about that old of technology. Is all I need is the cabling and will it work via IDE?

There is still something cool about these old floppy drives!

I installed Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit on a  P5LP-LE motherboard that was sitting my junk pile.  That P5LP-LE board includes 'legacy' connectors...PS/2, IDE, and a floppy header.  I installed a 3.5 floppy drive. The system recognizes the drive (A) and it works fine.  Unfortunately, it will not recognize a second drive, so no 'B' drive. It's my understanding that Win 7-8 will handle multiple floppy drives, but in my case the board BIOS will only recognize one floppy.

Way to not explain or show how you interfaced it with new hardware.

Next challenge: Install Windows 7 from 5.1/4" floppies.

My computer doensn't even got connectors like that... not even a standard IDE for harddrivers... it is all SATA connectors nowdays... I think you have to get a old computer. It won't work with new ones!

If I had such cable I would have no ptoblem, but my motherboard supports only 1 floppy and connector for 5,25" is in B position...

You didn't video connecting the drive up, mounting it in the case or setting up the BIOS. Just your two screens with pictures of yourself. Self involved much? I vote take down the video, it's does you and the tech community no favors. My rather brusque two cents.

Interesting that it worked natively.

bookmarked for future reference . want to install one on a emachine w suse linux.

Hello friend, the link is broken, you have another link?

Windows 7...but what? You still didn't answer the hardware questions...What kind of machine was it? How you connected to the MB...if you had a floppy controller with an ISA slot or if you found some way to do it on IDE, or what? Come on man! Give some friggin details!! This video (as it is) is useless!

It isn't always a b:\ drive, it can be a:\ also, it just depends on which connector you mount it on the ribbon, if you mount it to the one with the twist it will be a:\

when digging in the basement for IDE cables, i found 1 floppy cable the 5 1/4 drive connector on it.

Faaaake

Wtf was that? Show us what you did. So stupid movie.

And for motherboards too new to have a floppy drive header, the next project should be to take apart one of those external USB 3.5" floppy drives and see if the USB bridge board likes being connected to a 5.25" drive instead. :-)

What a wasted video, told me nothing