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I have had a need of retrieving info off of the old square hard-plastic 3.5 diskettes (remember those?). I bought an external 3.5 inch diskette USB player which plugged into my PC computer. However, the program for the player came on a 3 inch DVD-type disc, not the current 5 inch variety. On the PC, the disc is loaded flat and the disk drawer has a notched circle which is meant to hold the 3 inch discs.
I have now converted to an iMac 21.5 desktop, which of course has a vertical slot drive for DVD's.
I want to load the diskette USB player program onto at least the Windows 7 part of my iMac (loaded via Bootcamp). However, I am concerned about loading the 3 inch program disk into the vertical iMac slot drive. Since the iMac loads in that vertical slot, I am terribly afraid the 3 inch disc will get inside and not "play" and, worse, not be able to be ejected.
Bottom line: can I safely load and eject the 3 inch disc into the iMac slot drive?
I have now converted to an iMac 21.5 desktop, which of course has a vertical slot drive for DVD's.
I want to load the diskette USB player program onto at least the Windows 7 part of my iMac (loaded via Bootcamp). However, I am concerned about loading the 3 inch program disk into the vertical iMac slot drive. Since the iMac loads in that vertical slot, I am terribly afraid the 3 inch disc will get inside and not "play" and, worse, not be able to be ejected.
Bottom line: can I safely load and eject the 3 inch disc into the iMac slot drive?