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  1. Place the drive on its side or with the circular part facing up or on the side of the drive. This is where the drive spins and should not be placed face down unless there is clearance underneath the spinning section.

  2. Plug the edge connector into the drive with the pink line on left if looking a the drive horizontally from the back.
     


  3. Plug the 4 pin molex power cord into the back of the floppy drive do not plug it into power yet, you must wait until step 8).
     


  4. Get out the KryoFlux board. Always place the KryoFlux board on a non-conductive surface while it is in use. You may choose to use an anti-static mat or wristband, but typically this won’t be necessary and there’s debate about whether or not these types of anti-static devices will be helpful in a scenario like this one.

  5. Enable write-blocking functionality by removing the jumper (small plastic cover) for the write gate (two pins below indicated in the image). It is most likely already removed and in the bag that the kryoflux is stored in. The board should look like the image below without any jumper in place.
     


  6. Connect the other end of the 34-pin floppy cord to Kryoflux. Make sure that the side with the red line is plugged into pin 1 (On the KryoFlux side, the cable’s first pin should be on the right if viewing the board with the cable connector closest to you. 
     
  7. Connect the KryoFlux board to the computer using the USB cable. The USB-A connecting end goes into the KryoFlux board and the standard USB connector goes into the processing computer.

  8. Connect the power plug into power through a power strip. This step must be done last.

  9. Place a piece of tape over the notch on disk, this will write protect the disk.
  10. Insert the disk into the drive, label-side up. Swing the latch on the drive from horizontal to vertical.
  11. Proceed to the imaging using Kryoflux software section. [link to Kryoflux software documentation section]

8 inch floppy drive

DDC has an internal 8” floppy disk drive but have not set it up for use. Contact the digital archivist if you encounter any 8” disks believed to be of high value.