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PostPosted: April 9th, 2013, 7:54 
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It would be nice to know if op got the photos from the floppy at the end...

I'd like to know if it was a 5.25" or a 3.5". All he said was that they were "old and redundant". I still have both floppy drives in my 486 machine, so I wonder if that makes me old and redundant, too. :-)

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PostPosted: April 9th, 2013, 8:01 
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fzabkar wrote:
Spildit wrote:
It would be nice to know if op got the photos from the floppy at the end...

I'd like to know if it was a 5.25" or a 3.5". All he said was that they were "old and redundant". I still have both floppy drives in my 486 machine, so I wonder if that makes me old and redundant, too. :-)


I think it must be 3.5, but i also still have 5.25 too on the 386.

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PostPosted: April 9th, 2013, 14:32 
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My apologies been inundated at work and had to put this to the side for a day.

Seems I've struck up quite a discussion, and many many thanks for the points laid out by all of you.

I will upload a photo of the floppy drives once i get to work tomorrow morning. Incidentally I was with the client this morning completing an SBS installation and I stated there are two ways to try this, either you outsource it, or I give it a go. He was willing for me to try and doesn't mind if it becomes unrecoverable. It still holds sentimental value so it's worth a shot but not the end of the world.

I was attempting to read the floppy through an external USB floppy reader (which I believe is quite recent) so first thing to try would be the older floppy drive.

Sorry for taking a while to respond.

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customukr wrote:
My apologies been inundated at work and had to put this to the side for a day.

Seems I've struck up quite a discussion, and many many thanks for the points laid out by all of you.

I will upload a photo of the floppy drives once i get to work tomorrow morning. Incidentally I was with the client this morning completing an SBS installation and I stated there are two ways to try this, either you outsource it, or I give it a go. He was willing for me to try and doesn't mind if it becomes unrecoverable. It still holds sentimental value so it's worth a shot but not the end of the world.

I was attempting to read the floppy through an external USB floppy reader (which I believe is quite recent) so first thing to try would be the older floppy drive.

Sorry for taking a while to respond.

Chris


Hi there !
Thanks for the update .
Get rid of that USB floppy reader NOW !
And make sure that the inside of the floppy doesn't contain Mould/Dust.
Best regards and will look forward to the photos.

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