Where to find a 5.25" floppy drive.

[dmill89]

I'm doing some repair work on an old 486 system for a friend. Unfortunately the 5.25" 1.2mb floppy drive died and he still has alot of data on 5.25" floppys. Does anyone know where I could get a 5.25" floppy drive other than Ebay for a decent price? Any help would be apreciated.

 

[Nodsu]

You could probably get one for virtually free from a garage sale, flea market or some kind of an e-junkyard.. Or ask your friendly local computer repair shop.

Since there are no new devices made, you can try some refurbished goods shops. Any shopping search engine should give you some results.

 

[dmill89]

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I couldn't find one locally. My local computer shop expeced to get some used ones in in a few weeks but I couldn't wait that long so I ended up just geting one from ebay. Now I just have to hope it doesn't get destroyed in the mail.

 

[Tedster]

any computer salvage store should have this although 5.25s are getting increasingly harder to find.