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)

I was trying to recover data from floppies to my Windows 10 Home machine. I ended up trying five different devices and am posting my review to let you know my results. First, all five devices worked PERFECTLY on my Windows 7 Pro laptop. However, when plugging in to my Windows 10 machine, three of them would only sit and spin with the drive light on, even though they were recognized as drives by Win10. After a little looking, I found that the devices that worked on my Windows 10 machine identified themselves and used the driver for the Y-E Data USB floppy, while the devices that just sat and spun identified themselves and used the driver for a TEAC floppy drive. So there must be a little difference in the internal configuration of the drive that is causing the issue. I tried 5 devices and found that the Tendak USB Floppy Disk Drive worked perfectly, as did the Esynic USB Floppy Drive . Both identified as Y-E Data USB floppy drives. When they were plugged in, they worked smoothly and quietly. It was a toss-up which one to choose to keep, but I eventually went with the Tendak because it seemed slightly quieter and faster, but that was really subjective. The Tendak also had more information such as a warranty card and information on how to contact support, while the Esynic box was empty. As far as quality of the drive, they seemed identical. If I had needed more than one drive, I would have kept them both. For me, initially the Sabrent External USB 1.44 MB 2x Floppy Disk Drive (FL-UDRV) seemed the nicest. The box was glossy with information covering it, you'd expect to see this sitting on a shelf in a big box store. (All other drives came in plain brown boxes). There were touches of quality in how the drive was packed, the box was made to fit it with a area for the cable to fit in and a dust cover over the USB end to keep it clean. It came with a beautiful guide to using the floppy, including information like the write-protect switch and not removing a floppy while the drive light is on, that newer users would not be familiar with. They also had a support phone number, and the person who answered seemed to be an American. Unfortunately, this was one of the devices that would not work on my Windows 10 machine. It identified as a TEAC USB Floppy drive, and when plugged in it simply had the drive light turn on and continuously seek for data. It worked perfectly in my Windows 7 machine, and was very fast and smooth. If I hadn't needed it working on Windows 10 as well, I would have kept this one in a heartbeat. From other reviews, it appears that it works on other people's Windows 10 machines, so I'd recommend you at least try it. The last two devices were both from Chuanganzhuo. 3.5" USB External Floppy Disk Drive Portable 1.44 MB FDD for PC Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10,for Mac,No Extra Driver Required,Plug and Play,Black and the 3.5" USB External Floppy Disk Drive Portable 1.44 MB FDD for PC Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/8/10 +Dustproof Scratch-Resistant External Bag Case,No External Driver,Plug and Play . Both devices worked fine on Windows 7 Pro, but on Windows 10 Home they immediately had the drive light up and started a very loud seek process that never finished. These devices were louder than any other drive I tested, but did work just fine under Windows 7. Both used the TEAC USB Floppy driver as well. My conclusion: If you are lucky enough to be one of those whose computers will use the Sabrent External USB 1.44 MB 2x Floppy Disk Drive (FL-UDRV) , get that drive. It is quality. If you can't, either the Tendak USB Floppy Disk Drive or the Esynic USB Floppy Drive will probably make you happy.

My grandfather recently passed away due to health issues, and my family and I are currently going through my grandparent's home where we're getting ready to sell their house. My grandmother recently moved into an independent living home, and we're going through my grandfather's things as to what to keep, and what to get rid of in preparations to sell the house. While going through their things, My family and I discovered 50+ some floppy disks that my grandfather used from the early 90s to early 2000s. My grandfather was a man of many suprises, so imagine my parents and I's eyes when we saw these floppy disks hiding in my grandfather's office's closet! Besides my uncle working in IT, I am pretty much the only tech-saavy person that my parents has access to for certain things when they need help with technology. My mother put me in charge of handling my grandfather's floppy disks to recover what was saved on the disks. I was a bit concerned about if anything was readable, or if the disks were even going to work on a modern computer. Everybody was telling me that the disks might be formatted for a PC Windows 7 (or Windows 10) and that it might not work on a modern computer. After reaching out to my Uncle who works in IT, and asking for advice on macrumors.com (a forum where people ask other people who uses Apple products for advice and help on software, upgrades, etc.) and they recommended me to purchase the Tendak floppy disk drive as it was compatible for Windows, AND Mac computers. So I decided to listen to them and purchase the Tendak floppy disk. I was very anxious to see if the adapter disk would be able to read the disks on my Apple 27" 5k retina, 2019 iMac desktop which currently uses Monterey as the OS (Operating software). When I the floppy disk arrived, I immediately opened it up, plugged it into my iMac desktop computer, and put the first floppy disk in and it worked! The floppy disk was completely readable, I was able to copy the files and transfer them to my external harddrive and save them. My grandfather was a scientist and an engineer, so there were some files inside the floppy disk that I couldn't open/read such as a .hlg, .swh, .wpd, and .plg files. I learned that .hlg, .swh and .plg files are old technology and there isn't really a software to open those type of files anymore. But I was able to recover 95% of the files saved on the floppy disks, and I was completely shocked that I was able to on a modern 2019 Apple iMac computer. I was extremely excited and happy to see the photos that my grandfather took, and saved on the floppy disks because my family never seen many of these photos before. So, to be able to share these memories that my grandfather took, is probably the last precious gift that he kept and given to us. I cried happy tears when I saw the photos. Thank you, Tendak for making the floppy disk adapter compatible with Mac computers, because otherwise I would never be able to see and save any of these photos!

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.

My dad recently gave me a big box of old floppy disks from our family's old Macintoshes, mostly formatted in HFS and FAT32. I got this floppy drive to see what old treasures I could pull off of them, and after fiddling around with it for a while it was super easy! There's a few tips that may be helpful for some: -The drive needs to be in a USB 2.0 port! If your USB port is blue, it's a 3.0 and the drive will not work. A black port will work. -If you are using Mac OS, you will have the best luck reading very old floppies if you're using 10.14 or earlier. The majority of the ones I could read were only readable by Mac OS 10.6. -Try multiple operating systems--I used Mac OS 10.6 and 10.15, as well as Windows 7 and Windows 10. -Copying data off the drives may take a little while--it isn't as fast as a USB stick or something similar. Pros: Once I got it in a USB 2.0 port, it was very easy to use in both MacOS and Windows. It read a good 75-80% of my floppy disks--the rest were either damaged or corrupted when I got them so that is no fault of the drive. I was able to pull nearly 50MB of old photos, classic Mac OS games, school projects and diagrams for old jobs from the floppies and share them with my family. It's compact, pretty quiet and easy to store. Cons: It was a little slow to copy data from some disks, but those hadn't been read in 15+ years so it made sense. Kinda slid around on my desk a little when ejecting. Overall I would absolutely recommend this drive to anyone looking to revisit old floppy disks.

I should have paid attention to the other reviews. This is a piece of junk. I read a couple of disks with it, but this was only about 15% of the disks I tried it on. The other disks got read errors on various sectors. I went off to have lunch and came back and all the drive does now is hum. It seems like the motor does not spin up any more. This is only after about an hour of use. DO NOT BUY THIS!

Supprised and delighted to have a floppy disk drive reader. Had several diskette drive reader/writers on some of my old Windows type desktop PCs. Used the drives to save many documents and pictures. Stored the diskettes away for future retrieval of files, photos and documents when needed. As the year passed and new desktop PC were installed never thought about the diskette drive functionality. Going thru boxes of put-aways and discovered many diskettes labeled with photos and documents that I dont have on curent PC. Researched Amazon and found this reader/writer and was delighted and ordered. This was a plug and play on my Windows 10 desktop PC. The build an quality of this devise is excellent. The product is well designed for the modern day use of computes featuring the USB connectivity. I plugged this rade/writer in to my USB expansion bus and it worked flawlessly. I am able to read all those old documents and photos. I have not tried to write files to the diskettes, not sure why on would chose to save files to a diskette this days. If you have files, documents or photos stored on the old diskette storage media this is the device you need to regain access to those files. It works flawlessly and is kind of fun to have on your new desktop PC.

Update: The replacement drive worked, and continues to work. I haven't disassembled the replacement to see it's condition internally because I don't want to break the clips holding the housing together, but it's doing a good job so I'm happy. I've increased the rating to 3 stars. I would give it 5 stars except for the fact that they don't mention anywhere that these aren't new, they're old drives put in a new housing with a usb converter add-on board. Prior review: This product is a salvaged floppy drive with a USB converter wrapped in a new housing. The one I received was a Sony MPF820 manufactured in March 2003 (according to the sticker, at least). There is an add-on board that converts the zif cable coming from the drive to USB. This makes it show up in device manager as TEAK USB UF000x USB Device. This add-on board is not actually secured in any way inside the housing. It's just stuffed in there. This is probably fine for something sitting on a desk. I was able to read and back up 7 floppy disks before it broke and started reporting that there was no floppy disk inserted into the drive. When it was functioning, it showed up in file explorer under "This PC" on my Surface Pro 4 running Windows 10. I didn't have to do anything special to get the drive to show up. It was plug and play, as advertised. I was suspicious about the fact that it briefly worked but quickly broke, so I opened up the drive. On the topic of the housing, the clips holding the top and bottom halves together are extremely flimsy. There are three per side, and in separating the housing I broke two of them. There's also one screw holding it together at the back near the cable, and the mounting boss broke when attempting to unscrew it. I'd say it was either designed to be assembled one time and never taken apart, or else was not properly engineered to allow for disassembly and maintenance of the drive. If you ever need to open and clean the drive, expect some of the clips to break. If you purchase one of these and experience issues within the return window, I recommend returning the drive and not attempting to disassemble it to troubleshoot due to the high probability of breaking the housing. As mentioned above, the drive itself is an old Sony from 2003. The internals of the drive appeared free from dirt and debris, but there was very clearly rust on the bottom of the drive. The shape of the rust looks as if it's the result of being exposed to liquid at some point in the past. I did not fully disassemble everything to see if the rust impacted any of the circuit boards, but rust does exist in the vicinity of the electronics. I'm not sure what caused the drive to suddenly stop functioning, but it will no longer register that a disk has been loaded into the drive. Even retrying all of the disks that I previously was able to successfully read, it will report that no floppy is inserted. Despite the damaged housing I am still going to initiate a return due to the fact that the unit received was rusted. If this were advertised as an old repurposed drive perhaps I would feel differently, but I would absolutely expect a rust free product from the way it's marketed. I will update this review if I receive a replacement.

First, I tried the Tendak USB floppy disk drive with Windows 11, and it did not work at all. Next, I plugged the USB floppy drive into a laptop running Ubuntu Linux 24.04.2 LTS, and it just worked - no additional steps necessary. I also tested from Ubuntu running off a bootable USB stick, and it also worked. If you're running Windows 11 and you need to get files from a floppy, you could create and boot from a bootable Ubuntu USB stick and access the floppy drive.

Lectura muy buena de discos flexibles tal como lo hacían las de antaño

When I found a bankers box of old disquettes from the 90s in my unheated garage, I thought for sure they would no longer have any thing on them and they’d be destined for the trash, but I couldn’t just check them without actually checking. I’m so glad I did! Every single one of them was easily readable and I was able to retrieve the html and graphics from my old Angelfire and Geocities webpages, along with pictures from my old icq chat buddies from around the world. Amazing desktop themes from my favourite video games and so many wav and midi files I completely forgot I ever had. This little device is great value, very functional, and easier to use than the reviews suggested.

Eficaz para o que se propõe: leitura de diskets.

USBに対応していない古いPCとのデータ交換に3.5インチ 2HD 1.44MB フロッピーディスクを使うために購入しました。 フロッピーディスクを問題なく読み取れました。

The users guide doesn't mention support for Mac. However the drive does work on Mac. No mention of drivers for Mac in the instructions. Just loaded as soon as diskette inserted.