+Mitch Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Shouldn't an ST disk read fine on a PC? It's even FAT12. Yes, though you will likely need an older Windows OS and a PC that still has a floppy drive. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Yes, though you will likely need an older Windows OS and a PC that still has a floppy drive. Mitch I had an install of Vista 64 at one point. The Biostar motherboard had a floppy header and Windows recognised it and assigned the A drive. Sadly when I upgraded my PC, I got a Gigabyte moboard that lacked a floppy connector so I had to retire the drive. Good thing was I replaced it with a much more practical USB3 multicard reader. But I'm sure even Windows 10 could read floppies if the motherboard supported it. And lets not forget USB floppy drives exist, although I seriously dubt in the 5.25" variety. Well it appears floppies are canned in Windows 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaynz Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Windows 10 can read floppies if you get a PCI adaptor card that goes out to the drive type. It doesn't do it natively, though. (It's what I used to keep my Zip disks going...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Windows 10 can read floppies if you get a PCI adaptor card that goes out to the drive type. It doesn't do it natively, though. (It's what I used to keep my Zip disks going...) What about using a USB based floppy drive? Windows 7 can do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Shouldn't an ST disk read fine on a PC? It's even FAT12. Yes, though you will likely need an older Windows OS and a PC that still has a floppy drive. It depends. Older TOS versions formatted the disk with a boot sector that was slightly different from what MS-DOS/Windows expects and do not read those disks. But later TOS versions and many third-party disk formatters/copiers created a boot sector that is MS-DOS compatible. That is only if it is a standard 9 sectors / 80 track disk. Disks with different layout (e.g. 10 sectors / 82 tracks which was done often) cannot be read by PCs without special software. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaynz Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 What about using a USB based floppy drive? Windows 7 can do that. The short answer is 'it should' if the drive is actually USB compliant... but mileage is very much going to vary. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I've got PCs with XP and DOS 6.22 on them here with floppy drives, if either of them will work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted December 4, 2015 Author Share Posted December 4, 2015 Ok so we need to know who here can recover the data with a very high success rate. Or find where it can be done professionally. Who found the toki prototype? That person may come in hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 (edited) Not in mine. Edited December 4, 2015 by toiletunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 Of course someone had to take it there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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