How do I select a different floppy image on the same flash drive? And does this model have a led display? I cannot see it in the picture.
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It will only see files on the root directory. It does not have an LED display. If it did, you would be able to select different sectors on you USB.I have not been able to get this unit to work. Also, you must be able to format your USB into sectors of 1.4mg. It's been awhile, I don't remember if it came with software to do that. One more thing. You have to find 2Gb or smaller USB sticks. Good Luck, but I would not recommend.
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It has one led light. I'm not sure about the floppy image thing. Here is the deal. To get this thing to work properly, you have to use the formatting program that comes with the drives. That will make the flash drive work properly as the thing needs to emulate the FAT32 format.
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I'm using a 2gb flash drive. It does come with software to format the flash drive. I found it very easy to use. It's on a very small CD, maybe 2 inch diameter... my laptop is able to accept this kind of disk, yours may not.
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It does have LEDs, 4 small ones, on the front. As far as different floppy images on the flash drive, I don't know. I use this to move 2kb files between a laptop and CNC lathe. It works flawlessly, with simple plug and play installation.
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Yeah, the emulator formats your USB stick as a stack of 1000 1.44 meg floppies. You select the disks by pressing the buttons on the front of the emulator. The right button increments the 1's digit, the left increments by 10, and both together increments by 100. Selecting a new virtual floppy is exactly like putting a different floppy disk in a real floppy drive.
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You should not need a specific driver for this USB drive. Windows will automatically install needed generic driver. The main thing is to go to "my computer" and look for the corresponding drive letter. It should be there, if not either your USB port is incompatable (try another one) or the floppy isn't working.
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Mine also does not seem to have a led light. It transfers files fine thought. I miss the light.
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I don't have this device, but as a retired IT geek I thought I'd chime in and mention that many of these tablets can't read flash drives that have been formatted to NTFS on a pc. They tend to prefer FAT32 over NTFS. Most flash drives are formatted FAT32 by default, but if you reformatted it on a pc it would likely have defaulted to NTFS. Hope that helps.
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oh. well, thanks for the info, but for me that's a deal breaker. Nice prices on the Kingstons, tho.It is mandatory for me to watch the broad blue LED on my Sony Microvault when it flashes, reassuring me that copying and/or saving are happening in the right place. It is a platter drive, however, and I am on a quest for a flash drive to back up my back up. It must be high capacity, fast, stylin, and have a flashy LED. Any suggestions?Plus I love to pause and admire the starry heaven of my office when I shut down for the night, lit up by all the gorgeous blue, red, and green LEDs - it is a veritable tech paradise... oh. well, thanks for the info, but for me that's a deal breaker. Nice prices on the Kingstons, tho.It is mandatory for me to watch the broad blue LED on my Sony Microvault when it flashes, reassuring me that copying and/or saving are happening in the right place. It is a platter drive, however, and I am on a quest for a flash drive to back up my back up. It must be high capacity, fast, stylin, and have a flashy LED. Any suggestions?Plus I love to pause and admire the starry heaven of my office when I shut down for the night, lit up by all the... » Read More oh. well, thanks for the info, but for me that's a deal breaker. Nice prices on the Kingstons, tho.It is mandatory for me to watch the broad blue LED on my Sony Microvault when it flashes, reassuring me that copying and/or saving are happening in the right place. It is a platter drive, however, and I am on a quest for a flash drive to back up my back up. It must be high capacity, fast, stylin, and have a flashy LED. Any suggestions?Plus I love to pause and admire the starry heaven of my office when I shut down for the night, lit up by all the gorgeous blue, red, and green LEDs - it is a veritable tech paradise... « Show Less
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Just received this sucker in the mail:PNY Attache 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive P-FD4GBATT2-EF (Black)The performance warning appears once the drive is configured, but it does let me store files on it. It just says not to play arcade games and games on demand games from it. Gonna try out some saves, I'll be pissed if it doesn't work. Amazon just lowered the price of it too, the day I receive it. grrrrrr
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I had a small box of floppy discs that I wanted to see the contents, but the drive did not work with them. It would keep indicating that the was not formatted. Not being a computer expert, I just gave up and destroyed the floppies.
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I'm planning on doing the same thing but only have a week or two experience with the enclosure so far. The first one failed and was quickly replaced without much fuss. So far no troubles with the new enclosure though I have not started moving files to the drive. If you are leaving it on for 24 hours you may find the blue LED a waste of energy and annoying in a darkened room. I think it would be a simple matter to unplug the LED. There's no reason it should affect the use of the drive/enclosure.
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no, I am amazed how different flash drives make difference. never heard back from sangean customer service. it is cheap radio, cheap usb...not worth the time, trouble I put into trying to figure out. I would avoid this radio...some sandisk flash ok, adapter other flashes seem to work. still radio bad idea.
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No LED, and tiny, doesn't really even look like a USB drive. It looks exactly like the picture showing the Flash drive on the keyring, and appears relatively rugged.
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Sorry, never noticed. The eyes do light up when the flash drive is inserted, but never checked to see if it blinks.
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Me too! I'm not going to seriously consider purchasing anything computer related unless I see the manual that goes with it. Is it (i.e., Canvio) truly plug and play? Can you selectively choose individual files to back up? I'm not at all interested in wasting time and space backing up files that I really don't wish to back up. (I only wish to back up photographs.) Filtering through all the comments, while helpful writ large, takes a lot of time when looking for particular information. A manual please.
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I believe one can format flash drives for FAT and this shouldn't be any different. Do a Google search and you'll find many examples.
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Theoretically it should. However this device worked only twice for me and then died completely. I definitely would not recommend buying this one. I suggest you should try out a floppy drive from a more reliable brand.
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By the way, I also checked Seagate's website and they have no pictures of their 500gb with the new light pattern, which I find odd because if anyone's going to have the most up-to-date pictures of their products, it should be them.
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Not sure what you are asking. Some new computers have A drive facility but a separate drive dock is necessary. This device permits you to operate a floppy via a USB connection.