aelrsoch USB External Floppy Disk Drive, 3.5 inch floppy disk reader, 1.44 MB FDD portable floppy disk drive for PC Windows 2000 / XP / 7/8, no additional driver required

I bought this drive because it was recommended on the Rob Smith Tech DrawBridge discord. It is one of the USB drives that has a ribbon connector internally that allows the Amiga Drawbridge adapter to be installed. The case is quite tricky to get apart to make the installation of the new board, but once completed the drive worked flawlessly. Finally I can read and write Amiga floppy disks on my PC.

I believe it only works with rigid floppy disks in a casing, not the very 1st type that were flexible, which were in use in pre-historic times, around 1990-1995. I am talking about the very first floppy disks, which were actually floppy and of a bigger size, which older users will remember.Otherwise, I have been able to retrieve old WORD documents I was looking for, which were going back to 1997-1999, and was pleased with that. It works fine. It is easy to use. A good buy.

I have several hundred old floppy discs dating back to my university lecturings days when I had to use them to store all my lectures, images and other documents. I needed a cheap reader to check I was not discarding any important information. My PC recognised the drive immediately the first time and I started on the task of looking at each floppy, saving what I needed to my PC and then discarding the old floppy discs.. I then closed down the system and, on returning to the task the next day, my PC failed to recognise the reader. Eventually I realised I had to delete the reader files and reload. It then worked again recognising most of the information. One or two older Windows 95 files were not recognised. I am not technologically very literate but managed to find the right reader files to delete so that, when inserted in my PC, it worked again. I have a HP Prodesk PC with a USB port on the front. This worked perfectly. Overall, I am very pleased with the reader and would recommend it.

Useful for accessing old floppy discs as too much obsolescence built into new laptops.

I'm running Win 10 Pro 64 bit and while Windows recognised a USB Disk drive Device it did nothing other than tell me "the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error"Tried everything in the troubleshooting list, but to no avail.Gave up and plugged into an old laptop running XP, which recognised the Floppy Drive more or less straightaway. Managed then to get one disk copied (with .txt files) but that was it... One diskNext thing I got was A:\Is not accessible, and the I/O device error again, and it hasn't worked again since, even with unplugging, trying many different disks etc.Frustrating!!

Bought to convert to an Amiga disk compatible drive for use with Drawbridge. It worked for that purpose. The housing is incredibly flimsy, like a cheap plastic party favour. The mechanism is stiff and doesn't cleanly lock disks every time. It works, but does not seem durable at all.

As a computer user since before the advent of the PC I still have access to stuff on floppy discs. I can't say that I use this often, but it comes in handy once in a while.

Works brilliantly without any glitches using an Apple Mac laptop.However a bit clunky with a HP laptop using Windows 10. Noticed it doesn’t always recognise the reader or some of the files.Finding I keep having to restart the windows computer in between each floppy disk.Just checking I’m not throwing out valuable files prior to wiping clean all the other files on the disks.