<div dir="ltr">I had an old thinkpad usb 3.5 floppy disk drive accessory I kept around to boot cranky systems back in the day, as oddly when some wouldn't work with certain usb cd, that floppy always worked. I'd offer it up, but I haven't seen/used it in 10+ years, and don't even know where to start looking for it, but I'm sure you can still find them on ebay.<div><br></div><div>Good luck on the 5 inch, that you're just going to need an old relic system for I think, but wouldn't surprise me to see some hackers have made adapters to a more modern interface and power for those as well.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:33 AM Matthew Gibson <<a href="mailto:guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com">guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">My parents have been cleaning out their home and came across some 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, they also found some 5 inch floppies. Does anyone have an appropriate drive for either of these media items? I am looking to borrow, but I don't imagine it will be difficult to scrounge up the funds to purchase a drive or two. All we are wanting us to pull what data we can off them.</div>
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