Usb Floppy Drive Not Working Windows 10

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Yes, there is a disk in the drive, but that is irrelevant since Windows does not turn the drive on at all. Also, ejecting and putting a disk in the drive does make a sound like the pin falling into place, but that is more mechanical than electrical.)

First, I tried disabling the floppy drive in Device Manager, then assigning A: to the flash-drive in the Disk Management snap-in, then re-enabling the floppy which was then assigned B:. Unfortunately this did not work (and caused even more problems than before.)

In any case, if anyone else finds their way here trying to figure out why they cannot get Windows to even activate their floppy drive, check if you have any small flash-drives attached to your system on boot. If your board is new enough, try asking them to update the BIOS (though it is more than likely that any board that is new enough to have support will not have a floppy controller at all).

A and B drive letters are reserved in windows. If your usb is appearing as b, you must have done something previously to remove that mapping - and maybe at the same time removed the a reservation?kb on removing drive letters

I have an old PC from the 90s. When I boot DOS from floppy, everything works fine. I have just installed Windows 98 SE and for some reason, the 3.5 inch floppy drive is showing as 5.25 inch drive. It also freezes when I try to open it.

Check the BIOS. In many BIOSes there is a setting in which the user can specify what kinds of floppy drives are attached to the system. It is next to impossible to give general advice about how to find the relevant setting in the setup program, since it varies depending on the BIOS vendor. However, it should be at least relatively easy to diagnose whether this is in fact the problem.

This reads off the floppy setting directly from the RTC NVRAM. On a correctly configured system with a single 1440 KiB drive, this should output 40 (30 for a 720 KiB drive, 50 for a 2880 KiB drive). The value 00 indicates no floppy drives. To quit the debug session, use the command q.

The second byte in the dump corresponds to the floppy drive type detected by DOS; for a 1440 KiB drive it should be 07; here, 09 denotes a 2880 KiB drive. If this value is incorrect, you can try overriding the DOS-detected drive type with a DRIVPARM= directive in CONFIG.SYS. The use of the directive is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q96769 (the DRIVER.SYS part is not applicable to Windows). You will notice the /D: option takes the drive letter number shifted by 1, while /F: option takes the same kind of drive type number that is returned above.

I found a DOS program that would allow me to write CoCo disks on a PC. But I'm having a frustrating time getting any 5 1/4" floppy drives working on my current DOS/Windows PC, a Dell Dimension 4100. I have two drives, a 1.2mb Panasonic JU-475-5 and a 360kb Panasonic JA-511-3.

There's an option in the BIOS that selects what floppy drive you have, and there are options for 360kb and 1.2mb drives. So I have to suppose this computer supports them. But no matter what I do, I can't get either of the drives to actually work. The red drive LED never lights up once. When I put a disk in and close the door handle, it spins the disk for 10 seconds, then stops. But I've never gotten anything to load whatsoever.

I did tons of Googling and couldn't come up with anything, other than a Youtube video of a guy successfully using a drive on his Dell Dimension 4400. I'm not sure how different that model is to the 4100, but I imagine not by much.

Quite often on rig's from the mid 90's onwards, issues started rear their ugly heads with floppy drives. A not to uncommon occurrence was 5 1/4" drives just wouldn't work on many a motherboard. Another more common issue was getting two floppy drives working.

If you know your drives work, and you know you have a good cable, then unplug the 3 1/2 and try only one drive. When I run across a motherboard that gives me floppy drive issues, I pull out a combo drive. That seems to always give my the first drive on the chain (which ever drive I pick), and more often than not it gives me both drives. Combo drives are a bit pricey and not a guarantee, but they are an option if nothing else works.

Of interest is that when I boot the PC with the XP disk and enter the recovery console I can access the floppy drive and there are no errors. This is why I suspect that XP cannot read or mount non NTFS file systems.

Also another way to fix your reload (future proof) Download from driverpacks.net Mass storeage and NIC drivers and follow his instructions to slipstream them in.

Another more flexable but less reliable method is to use NLITE to customize and slipstream the drivers in.

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If you go to the MSDOS prompt and type Format /? you should see that Format /4 allows you to format a 5.25 inch (360kb). At least that is what I see in Windows ME. I would be very surprised if support was removed, but I would be even more surprised if anybody wanted to make any use of such discs.

A friend asked me to look at a desktop PC in early 2020 that was running W98, and yes I can verify that it had a 5.25 inch and a 3.5 inch floppy drive. We tested each drive just to see if they worked, and they spun up and read the disks.

The drives are physically similar and are laptop modules that can be used as standalone USB floppy drives. Both are connected internally to one USB 2.0 motherboard header, by means of a small adapter accepting 2 USB-A cables.

The bad drive can work in Ubuntu. But, after I boot into Ubuntu a couple of times, the drive seems to stop working. I then have to turn my motherboard power off for a few seconds and reboot to get the drive back to normal. (Just rebooting into Windows won't fix it.)

I've seen only one time before where you have shut off all power to fix a USB device: it was a long time ago with an AFT Pro-55U smart card reader that had an incompatibility with a program speedfan.exe that would do unusual things with the motherboard. I had to use speedfan.exe /NOSMARTSCAN to avoid that problem. It makes me suspect Ubuntu is doing something "bad" to the motherboard or USB devices, that Windows deftly avoids. Or, maybe the USB device is complaining about something and Ubuntu gives up whereas Windows judiciously ignores the complaint.

My Mac laptop has a MacOS Mojave system. I have a few 3.5" floppies from old Windows days, with Word and Excel files (period 1998-2002), so I've just bought an external floppy drive compatible with iMac in order to be able to read the floppies. Should I be able to read them with my Mac or do I have to borrow a Windows with an older system?

Thank you very much for your help Kurt Lang, MrHoffman, VikingOSX, KN (not shown in this conversation) and all. I have managed to read most of my old files up to now and I have saved them again in a more current version with Office Word and/or LibreOffice.

Usually, the only DOS/Windows 3.5" floppy disks that can be read on the Mac are the 1.44 MB variety. If they're 720 K disks, you'll have to get the info off of them on a Windows computer and then transfer it over.

Thank you Kurt Lang. I believe they are of the 1.44 type but my laptop does not recognize them. I've tried two of them. The second one has been in the drive for the last three-four minutes. The driving keeps working (the light and sound indicate this) but no result shows on the laptop. The previous floppy stopped moving after a minute but this one keeps going on! I must find a way to stop it without harming the floppy drive!

Don't count on any Apple Pages or Numbers applications opening Word or Excel files from that era. Get the free LibreOffice v6.2 that can open those documents, and then save them again to fresh .docx or .xlsx files.

Correct. That's the only type of 3.5" floppy disk most USB drives will read. And then only if it's a DOS/Windows formatted 1.44 MB disk. If you have a 3.5" floppy that was formatted in an old Mac as a 800 K disk, it won't read those, either. Nor the short lived 2.88 MB versions.

Thanks again for all the hints, MrHoffman, including those on what harms the drive and the disk and what doesn't. My floppy drive did stop eventually, several seconds after I shut down the laptop, before I saw your reply.

I don't know if there's anything like this anymore, perhaps for Windows or DOS, but on the Ataris we had an App/PRG that read all sectors several times then rewrote them to overcome the weak ones that were suffering from data retention.

There has been more than a few occasions over the years where MS Word, or Pages could not open a Word .doc/.docx document, that once opened and resaved with LibreOffice, was then opened properly by Word and Pages. Coincidentally, the LibreOffice documentation is written in LibreOffice Writer.

A short and to the point guide:

Iomega officially only supports Windows XP (32 bit) for this drive (Citizen X1-DE-USB), but with this procedure I got it to work both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. I'm not sure about other versions of Windows; the standard 32 bit version of XP professional doesn't work with this method (it doesn't offer a fitting substitute driver, so the original Iomega driver is still needed).

I found out how to do this by looking at the .inf file that comes with the XP driver. It just tells Windows which operating systems are supported and to use the usbstor.sys driver. After unsuccessfully trying to get other Windows versions to accept the inf file, I instead tried to find another, similar, device that's supported by Windows out of the box and uses the driver. This worked; we're going to install the drive as a NEC USB floppy drive.

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