Floppy Disk Reader, 3.5 inch 1.44mb External USB Type A/C Floppy Disk Drive for PC, Laptop and Desktop Compatible with Windows 11/10/8/7/2000/XP, Not Compatible With Mac and Chrome, Black

I ordered one of these floppy disks and when it arrived it did not work properly so I contacted the technical support for the company and they immediately took steps to resolve the issue. After some testing they decided the first unit had a problem and they sent me a new floppy disk drive. When it arrived I plugged it in and everything worked perfectly. I would recommend this company to do business with because of the way they took care of my issue.

I have been using this for years to be able to read floppies on various PC's. It has allowed me to back up data from old floppy disks. It has been completely compatible and reliable so far. Noise is not excessive, but what you would expect from a compact disk drive. No software needed, it is recognized by Windows and Linux out of the box.

I am a computer hobbyist. I bought this USB disk drive to use to transfer files I had just created on old "vintage" computers that do not have a USB port, so a floppy disk is the only way to transfer files from a vintage computer to a modern computer.I plugged the drive into a Dell computer running Windows 10. Windows identified the drive and could read and write to a 1.44 MB floppy disk that was formatted on a Macintosh in MS-DOS format. I gave this drive a good test and used it to work on a Microsoft Word file with a jpeg image. It was slow, but it worked. Compared to the old days when a computer came with a floppy drive, this USB drive is a little slow, but it works, and it was simple to use. I just plugged it into the USB port and it worked. In fairness, I should have given it five stars, but it was a little slow compared to the USB floppy drives of 25 years ago. I also tested the floppy drive on a Macintosh running Mac OS 10.13, and it worked. It read the MS-DOS formatted disk and could read and write files to the disk, however, the disk could not be read by the Windows computer when I tried to see if I could transfer files from the Macintosh to a Windows 10 computer, so it seems that the drive may not be used across operating system. But the manufacturer did not claim it could work on Mac OS. It is very slow, but is probably adequate to retrieve files from old floppy disks. But it probably isn't a good idea to use it as if it were a drive from the 1990s when floppy disks were used as one main way of exchanging files.

Since Amazon wants me to review this item before it has even arrived, all I can say is that in my mind it works great. I have no idea if the thing will even write on a floppy disk, but in my mind it will work great. There really should be a special category for these reviews by those with fortune telling abilities, kind of like a medium or remote viewer. You would think I would have seen this push for a review coming with my psychic abilities, but I totally missed it. It may have been from those mushrooms.

I read and followed the warnings and recommendations on the list in the box. The special instructions for how to attach the drive to my PC. The special sequences that must be followed when inserting diskettes into the drive. The file types on the diskettes might be obsolete and perhaps abandoned. The warnings that my diskettes might be too old, too degraded, incorrectly formatted, too worn, or that I should not expect reading a diskette to be as fast as reading from modern storage.I've tried to read 15-20 diskettes created in the 1980's and 1990's. All of them have been well-stored in appropriately designed diskette storage. Not damp. Not too hot. Not too cold. Not dusty. I created created some of these diskettes myself, and others were created by someone else commercially. Some diskettes could not load at all. The file directory could be read on some, but no data file could be read. Some files on a diskette could be read, but others on the same diskette could not. I have not been able to read all the data from from a single diskette I have tried.I get it. It's a hard problem. Maybe it's too difficult a problem to expect a 20-30 year-old diskette to be readable. I haven't tried to create any new files on my own, and even if I could what's the point. Why sell and buy a diskette reader with a zero percent success rate?

I found a box of great history (floppy discs) and I initially ordered this reader, excited to unlock my treasures. The one I received kept saying my disc's were not formatted or it would freeze my laptop. It opened one file, then all files disappeared. I thought it somehow wiped my disc clean. I returned the reader, heartbroken and devastated. The seller was TREMENDOUSLY proactive and explained the potential issue. They issued me a new reader and it works superbly! THANK YOU!!! I was so thrilled I nearly cried once I was finally able to see all of my files I thought were lost. RECOVER YOUR HISTORY, BUY THIS READER!!

Truly plug and play. My deceased father-in-law had dozens of 1.44 mb floppy disks with hundreds of years of genealogy data. I offered to recover the data and this reader was the perfect solution. Read every 20+ year old floppy without a hiccup. Used it with Windows 10 Pro OS.