Many people still have some “classic” tools thatĪre on floppy, or documents or pictures saved on floppy (Before CDRW/DVDRW drives became the norm, floppy disks were the way to store and transfer files). In this day and age, with the fact that most new pc’s do not have floppy drives anymore, as a tech, I still find times where bring out an old reliable floppy is my best way to resolve a problem.

I have a USB device and used the old instruction for windows 7 and it seems to work Support for non-USB Floppy Drives in Windows 10 I have even tried to get Windows to load a different driver but I'm unable to get a list of Floppy Drives to appear when I ask to do an 'Update I have tried to look for a suitable driver on the web but am a bit dubious about some of the sites that come up. When I remove the disk from the Floppy Drive, the Floppy Drive still seems to want to access the disk even though there is not one in the drive - the green light on the front of the drive turns on repeatedly and you can hear the motor spin. Before anybody asks, I have tried these disks on another machine and they work OK. I have tried several disks and non are recognised.

However, when I insert a floppy, the Floppy Drive tries to continually read the disk as if there is a fault with the disk. Now with Windows 10, the Floppy Drive is 'seen' by the system and has installed the SONY-FDU USB Device and its states that 'This Device is working Properly'.

I have a TEAC FD-05PUB USB Floppy Drive which was working with Windows 7.

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