Windows 11 in XP mode: A user manages to read 5 and 1/4 floppy disks in the same way as it was used years ago
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They may not sound like much to you, but a few years ago the only way to get content from one computer to another was to pull floppy disks. Whether they were 5 and 1/4 (5, 25) or 3 and 1/2 (3, 5), the absence of the Internet in general and other media made it the most widely used option. And although they were discarded years ago, a user has recovered them for the cause and used them in Windows 11
Yes, the most current Microsoft operating system is capable of reading 5 1/4 floppy disks when a drive is connected to the computer.And to demonstrate it, he has uploaded a video to YouTube where he explains the entire process in which uses Windows 11 and a 5 and 1/4 disk drive
Windows 11 with heart XP
Jrcraft has shown on its YouTube channel how it is possible to connect a 5.25" drive to a computer with Windows 11. A physical medium that has been discarded for almost 30 years and that however Windows 11 is able to support.
In testing, Windows 11 and can natively recognize and read a 5 1/4 floppy drive. Quite a surprise for the user due to the harsh requirements with which Windows 11 hit the market. Just remember how it only works on computers with TPM 2.0 or its theoretical incompatibility with processors prior to 2017.
In order to make the floppy drive work, the user used a PC from 2005 with an Athlon 64 X2 processor+ and with a motherboard base that had the IDE connectors used for the floppy drive.On paper this PC couldn't run Windows 11. But Microsoft's requirements can be bypassed.
The 5.25" drive > was connected via a 34-pin IDE header and required no additional hardware or software to detect. Windows 11 that is able to read floppy disks like Windows XP did years ago.
This disk format was the one that gave way to the popular 3 and 1/2 floppy disks, which offered greater benefits in a more compact size. Basic floppy disks when it comes to distributing all kinds of software (I still remember loading games with 50 floppy disks) that were the norm until the rise of the CD and the subsequent arrival of flash drives and external hard drives.
