3.5" USB Floppy Disk Drive 1.44Mb, Black - Windows 7 Compatible

Cheap and Simple
The drive arrived very promptly and worked without any problem. I have used it to download data from old floppy disk, and this has worked out a charm.

3.5" USB Floppy Disk Drive 1.44Mb, Black - Windows 7 Compatible

3.5" USB Floppy Disk Drive 1.44Mb
On my Windows XP SP3 PC, the drive was up and running within seconds of being plugged in. It read about 50 diskettes from my 90s' backups of accounts and payroll without any hitch on all but two of the diskettes. Though I cannot rely on my memory totally, I recall having trouble recording onto diskettes prior to the disk drive on the PC I was using at the time failing completely. My hunch is that these two diskettes were corrupted or improperly formatted and that is why the USB drive would not accept them. Certainly I do not criticise the USB drive at all for not reading them.

So, I am pleased to have been able to transfer those backups without fuss or hold-up onto up-to-date media. (Quite what I shall ever need to do with such historic data is another question.) My impression was that the USB drive accessed and read diskettes every bit as quickly as did the built-in drives of the PCs on which the back-ups were created. I have not tried the drive on a Windows 7 machine, as...

3.5" USB Floppy Disk Drive 1.44Mb, Black - Windows 7 Compatible

Great drive, very useful, but short USB cable.
Great external USB floppy drive. Very useful for installing RAID drivers when building a PC where you want to install Windows on a RAID volume. I have uploaded some photos of this product, which I hope will be useful. The main reason for writing this review however, is to point out that the USB cable is rather short. This is probably as it is expected that the drive will be used with a laptop. Some USB devices, especially those that draw all of their power from the USB port, have trouble working with certain USB extension leads. I can confirm that this drive seems to work fine with the following 1m extension lead.

1m USB 2.0 Extension Cable - Premium Quality / A Male to A Female / High Speed 480Mbps

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