Does a drive (or a drive with an adapter) exist to read 5.25 floppy disks on a modern motherboard?

"Most motherboards still have IO controllers that support these drives, you just don't get an appropriate cable supplied with them (you used to get a cable that would fit either a 3.5"" drive or a 5.25"" one, these days you get cables that are missing the extra adaptor).

You should be able to get a cable from a supplier somewhere, or find on old one hidden away in the back of a draw or in an old machine. If you are in the UK I could drop one in the post for you for nowt - I think I've got a few of the things in my ""bits that probably should have been thrown two house moves ago""!.

Of course you are going to need a working drive too, and you have to hope that the content is still readable on the disks after all this time..."

Are they 5.25 disks for PC or Apple? The track alignments were different between the computers so you won't be able to read Apple disks on a PC. But if they were for a PC then you should not have a problem getting a 5.25 drive working (assuming you have one.)