A friend has about 70 5.25 floppy disks with important data, and no other backups exist as his current backup got deleted / corrupted.
He is asking me to get the data from these disks and copy them to a new usb drive etc, so he can use the data on modern hardware. God knows what the data actually is, or why it's so important (and why the only current backup was on a usb stick.....) but anyway...
Of course i dont have a 5.25 floppy drive, and can't find one to buy, and i dont even know if they still make them.. and if i bought an old internal drive it would not have the correct conectors to fit a modern motherboard anyway..
Do they make USB 5.25 drives anywhere??
He is willing to pay me to do it but i'm not sure what to tell him, i could buy an old 386 pc off ebay and use that maybe?
Any ideas?


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If that is true, i'm thinking maybe he used something like a BBC micro? Would that data be compatible if i just connected a 5.25 drive to a windows pc? I'm thinking it wont be able to read them as it wont be formatted properly for windows.... I'ts like when i take an Amiga 3.5" disk and put it in a PC, it just isnt the same and wont read the data.
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