Floppy Drive
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Besides a quick run to Walmart for a usb floppy drive readily available there you would need a 5 1/4" drive bay adapter. Some are simply two small brackets fastened to the side of a 3 1/2" drive(floppy, hard drive) like those seen at https://www.indypc.com/store.asp?id=548&menu=PC_Hardware/Cards&smenu=&page=1 or a full size bracket that slides into place with the drive already secured inplace. Most of the time those are also secured once inplace.
The link above shows what adapter brackets look like for using that method. A good 3 1/2" to 5 1/4" drive adapter is also used for hard drives as well as for mounting a floppy drive in a bay. A typical mounting bracket for mounting a 3 1/2" hard drive in a 5 1/4" drive bay looks like the image here.
The $5 price is typical at the present time since those are in less demand due to the larger capacity hard drives that have been available for the last several years. To get order online one can be found at http://www.addonics.com/products/other/ Look under "other storage accessories" at the link thjere.
The $5 price is typical at the present time since those are in less demand due to the larger capacity hard drives that have been available for the last several years. To get order online one can be found at http://www.addonics.com/products/other/ Look under "other storage accessories" at the link thjere.
Burgerbob
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Listen to what he is saying, PCEye!The link above shows what adapter brackets look like for using that method. A good 3 1/2" to 5 1/4" drive adapter is also used for hard drives as well as for mounting a floppy drive in a bay. A typical mounting bracket for mounting a 3 1/2" hard drive in a 5 1/4" drive bay looks like the image here.
The $5 price is typical at the present time since those are in less demand due to the larger capacity hard drives that have been available for the last several years. To get order online one can be found at http://www.addonics.com/products/other/ Look under "other storage accessories" at the link thjere.
You will need a floppy IDE cable, just look it up on newegg, and a connector fro your PSU.
Just get you floppy cable, most floppy drives will just slide in from the front after you remove your panel, screw it down, connect the floppy cable and power plug and your ready to go!
The floppy cable is not as wide as a standerd IDE cable so you cant get them mixed up on the motherboard and there should be a small 4 pin power connector that comes from your power supply to connect to the floppy drive
Often when buying a new board both an ide and floppy ribbon cable will be thrown in the retail box there. Forget going to Walmart for one. They only carry the external usb type there. Any local pc repair shop will have one for about $2 or a place like Compusa. On the 12v rails on a standard atx power supply you will always find the power connector there for floppy drives. Those are smaller in size then the typical molex type used on hard drives and cd and dvd optical drives.
Mabe circuit city- office max-office depo- or a small local computer store, since it didnt come with a floppy it might by chance have the floppy port disabled in the bios, you might have to enable it
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They should but I know a small computer store would, I have about 50 of them, I would throw you one if it wasnt so far
You can leave out Circuit City as well as Walmart there. Officemax and Staples are also very limited on what they carry. Office supplies are usually seen with a few different make and model cd or dvd burners and some blank media. This is why I recommended dropping by a pc repair shop. They always seem to have a few onhand. Compusa seems to be one of the last retail stores to go to for cables. http://www.compusa.com/products/pro...6&Pn=Single_Device_Floppy_Drive_Rounded_Cable is the 18" round MadDog cable seen there. Got a Compusa around somewhere close by?