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[kleine777]

just wondering is it still possible to get a drive b now days?

[Eagle of Fire]

Just as easily it is to have a drive A.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Just get a second floppy disk drive, it isn't hard.

Though why would you want that is beyond me - the transfer rates will be impaired if simultaneously using two FDD's, not to mention that it really doesn't have much of a practical use (speaking as someone who's been there and done that).

[kleine777]

i maen the old drive b with the really big floppy disks no the ones we have today.

[The Fifth Horseman]

God almighty...

Whichever type of FDD you have, you can connect it either as A or B. The latter appears only in two cases: 1. You have one FDD and enable the floppy letter swap option in your BIOS or 2. You have two FDD's.

All you need is an appropriate floppy IDE cable and the 5" floppy drive itself.

Why do you want to do such a thing?

[kleine777]

:blink: sorry but i didnt understand a word you said i don't know all those tecnichal things and i wanted a drive b: cause my older brother said he had some games in those big b: driver floppies wanted to check what he had. (hopefully he still has them).

[The Fifth Horseman]

If you didn't understand my prevois post:
FDD stands for Floppy Disk Drive. Either the small 3,5" or the large 5,25" one (that's the one you're asking about).
BIOS is the mini-program on your motherboard that controls most of the computer's function.
The IDE cable is the cable used to connect drives to the computer's motherboard. There are two sorts of these - one for hard drives and CD drives and one for floppies. The floppy IDE cable must have certain sort of connectors for you to be able to connect it to the 5,25" drive.

As I said, the 5,25" floppy drive is NOT called "Drive B". It's just 5,25" FDD, not much different from the smaller 3,5" one, really.

Read some on these things on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

However, seeing as even 8 years ago - when I have found out that a game I bought was on 5,25" FDD's - this format was on decline, you might have trouble finding a 5,25" drive these days, not to mention that most of your brother's 5,25" floppies will probably be degraded beyond recovery.

[Eagle of Fire]

Really depend on how he conserved his floppies. They still may be as new than when he got them out of the box, or as you said beyond repair and recovery. The second case is, of course, more likely.

[kleine777]

ok thanks for all your help i suppose i need to say bye to those disks but thanks for all your help