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 didn't try to use it on macOS, but it worked flawlessly on a Windows 11 desktop. I was shocked to find out many of the old disks I found were still readable (not all due to their age), and it helped me understand that some brands were much more susceptible for damage over time. (Imation and RadioShack brands held up the best)Great solution if you find old diskettes laying around and you'd like to see if what was on them and if you can still get it. Definitely brought back some great memories back to life.

Works just as well as an internal drive from the '90s. I've managed to recover a lot of files from floppies that have been sitting in a box for 30 years.Compatible with Linux and requires no additional software.

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.

It is a Floppy drive. It drives the floppy's

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 an old disk that is obsolete but wanted to retrieve the unknown contents. The disk reader allowed me to save a transcript my teenage son in 1992 typed of a school project to record an interview of his 79 year old grandfather regarding how life was in his growing up years, jobs he had, how his family managed the depression, etc. It was invaluable! Worked beautifully.

Easy to use and really does read 3-1/2" floppies