very simple question ... i know with hard drives the red line should be on the side of the power connector, but i am not sure how it works w/ floppies. i had some that crapped out me no matter which ...

The various drives for the computer are installed in areas of the case known as drive bays. You then connect ribbon and power cables to them. The ribbon cables also plug into the motherboard.

In this episode of [Adrian’s Digital Basement], we dive into the world of retro computing with a focus on diagnosing and repairing an old full-height 5.25-inch floppy drive from an IBM 5150 system.

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

Reader Kristie wrote in with this puzzler: “I just found a shoebox full of 3.5-inch disks. I think they were from my old digital camera, but I have no way of finding out because I no longer have a ...

In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined in the late 1990s thanks to the compact disc, and ...

A disk file that simulates a floppy disk. It is used to duplicate floppies, to boot a remote server from anywhere on the network as well as to simulate a floppy drive for old programs that require one ...

So I want to update the BIOS on my KSI K7D Master-L motherboard... but I do not have a floppy drive installed, nor do I want to add one<BR><BR>so... I booted a bootable cdrom I had which boots into a ...