Tendak USB Floppy Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Reader 3.5 inch Portable USB External 1.44MB FDD Diskette Drive for Windows 11/10/8/7/2000/XP/Vista PC Laptop, Plug and Play (Black)
Key features
- •USB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE - 3.5" USB External floppy disk reader, Reads 3.5" Floppy Disks with 720KB/1.44mb Capacity.
- •EASY TO USE - Plug and play, no extra driver required, just plug it into usb connector directly, it will automatically install driver by itself, with interference preventer. Powered directly from the USB port, no external power required.USB 1.1/2.0 is compatible. DON'T SUPPORT USB 3.0.
- •COMPATIBILITY - Compatible with Windows98/ SE /ME / 2000 / XP / Vista/Win 7/Win 8 Notebook, PC, Desktop, for Mac, Dell, Acer, Sony, HP etc.
- •RECALL YOUR MEMORY - This USB Floppy Disk will help you rouse old memory from old floppies. Save and transfer all those old pictures,video, documents that you haven't see for ages. It was a life saver which will recover the old data and files on the floppies
- •WIDELY USED - Use for industrial machines, aviation tech, ATMS, military and more fields. You can write or transfer data introduced to your industrial machines, ATMS or other device through a floppy drive, convenience for your production
Tendak USB Floppy Disk Drive, Floppy Disk Reader 3.5 inch Portable USB External 1.44MB FDD Diskette Drive for Windows 11/10/8/7/2000/XP/Vista PC Laptop, Plug and Play (Black)
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Customer Reviews
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A portable 3.5" to access all your old disks
S. Rekart✓ Verified Purchase•September 23, 2023
This drive is a must for all those people with old 3.5 disks that need to transfer the information to a more modern media of storage.
Worked out of the box with Arch Linux.
rsharp49✓ Verified Purchase•August 23, 2023
I used this product to check old business backup floppies before destroying and discarding the floppies.
Worked well in Windows 10 Pro laptop, recognized as TEAC drive
WL✓ Verified Purchase•August 23, 2023
I had several 3.5" floppies lying around that I wanted to check before tossing them. Thanks to the guidance of a great review on here that compared 5 different USB floppy drives, I purchased this one. Interestingly, that review claimed those drives that utilized a TEAC driver would not work well on Windows 10.
I have a desktop running Windows 7 Pro so I connected it to a USB port directly on the computer case and ran through my floppy tests. This drive in fact showed up as a TEAC floppy, which is different from what the prior review said. Perhaps the hardware or USB internals changed since that reviewer's purchase.
Regardless, it read the file directories okay for the most part, but then had a lot of difficulty pulling the data off the drive. I then tried it on a Win 10 Pro system, and surprisingly, it worked much better, with good reads off all the disks I tried. Perhaps it was the type of port I had it connected to, the desktop has a very old mobo with occasional quirky USB ports.
Another reviewer on here disassembled their drive and found inside an old floppy drive with some USB connectors. I guess that makes sense as what factory in 2023 would be making new floppy drives? So perhaps your compatibility will ultimately depend on the old drive they pulled and the USB interface.
I have a desktop running Windows 7 Pro so I connected it to a USB port directly on the computer case and ran through my floppy tests. This drive in fact showed up as a TEAC floppy, which is different from what the prior review said. Perhaps the hardware or USB internals changed since that reviewer's purchase.
Regardless, it read the file directories okay for the most part, but then had a lot of difficulty pulling the data off the drive. I then tried it on a Win 10 Pro system, and surprisingly, it worked much better, with good reads off all the disks I tried. Perhaps it was the type of port I had it connected to, the desktop has a very old mobo with occasional quirky USB ports.
Another reviewer on here disassembled their drive and found inside an old floppy drive with some USB connectors. I guess that makes sense as what factory in 2023 would be making new floppy drives? So perhaps your compatibility will ultimately depend on the old drive they pulled and the USB interface.
Data exchange
Ricke Moore✓ Verified Purchase•August 14, 2023
I needed this device to transfer data from my 3 1/2 floppy disk. It takes time to transfer the information but that is the beast. I am glad to have it and it is fun to see what I have
Good, but…
Positron57✓ Verified Purchase•August 2, 2023
I bought this and it came as pictured, it was "plug and play". The price is good. My only problem with it is that I have a stack of old floppy drives and while it recognized the data on some immediately, on others, it just would spin and spin. Now, I am not sure if there is data on these old disks or not because they have not been read in years. It would be very helpful if there were a dialog box to pop up saying something like "there's no data on this disk". also, while I can copy data to my desktop from the discs that it does read, I can't delete anything from them. This apparently is a disk reader only. So the only way to you get rid of any old data is to physically destroy or throw the disk away.
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