Are they able to copy the old files in Floppy Disk to the laptop????????????????
1103415
I could never get the drive to work at all, even though I had all the required hardware,software and the floppy drive was not damaged.
1103416
If your laptop has a usb port it will recognize it and name the floppy drive. Just open the drive with a double click, view files and transfer what you like.
1103417
Yes. I used it to read all the files on my 1.44 MB diskettes and which I copied my hard drive. From there I loaded the files onto CDs. My computer with Windows 7 had no problem reading the 1.44 drive. I used it only to recover old files from 1.44 diskettes.
342924
yes, but be careful! my laptop is a junker!!! was not really re-conditioned! Steve
2178923
So long as the computer can recognize the drive, you should be able to format it. If the drive is dead even this device won't help you.
488346
Yes it will. I have a customer running a PC that I built that has this unit in place of the floppy. They bring jobs from their laptop computer to the machine and upload through a flash drive.
788330
Well, I have some old Verbatim and 3M floppies. And the external floppy I bought described here worked very well. I don't know why they would not work for you. If they are corrupted or they are non-functional that may be the case. Sorry I could not give you something more.
2126753
There isnt a disc drive on this computer. Odd, I know. But i think the more techy things are getting, things like that are phasing out on laptops.
232623
It is possible but depends on how much free space you have on your HD and how long ago, how often you empty your trash ; Data Rescue is well worth buying even in the worst case let's say it doesn't, don't think it's the last time you might need this. I recovered stuff from reformated camera card of my wife as well, this software is amazing -
345192
I would think so. My disks and the files on them were from old Windows version laptop and desktop computer. I transferred Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files and some images that were most likely JPeg. Everything opened just fine on my current laptop that I plugged this little drive into. But please note that this is a floppy disk (hard square things) drive and not a CD/ROM drive. If your disks are from the photo developer they are most likely CDs. This won't work for DVDs or CDs (shiny round disks).
419442
Hello, you can use the Scan Disk, this is what I purchased and it works beautifully! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords;=scan+disk
99165
If the computer has an RCA input (yellow/red/white), then you could. Another way to do it would be to get a D-VHS player ( JVC HMDH40000U D-VHS HDTV Digital Video Recorder ), connecting via HDMI to the computer, copying that way.
1173359
Probably. I installed an external hard drive via USB, so an external floppy drive should work. I assume it comes with software.
829704
Mine did not. But overall, I am really pleased with the computer. The one I got also had the old A: floppy drive, which I'm glad it did.
255787
You can * burn it to a disc * copy it to a jump/usb drive * if your computers are networked you can access it from your laptop * failing the above, you can download it to your laptop
1865438
Yes, the drive does write files to the floppy disk. However, I had it connected to my computer for over 12 hours, and there was a "disk error" that caused my computer to crash. I started the computer right back up, though. I decided for the future, to just use the drive for short periods, and I believe things would be fine.
2050238
Not unless you have IOMEGA zip disks you need to access. As others have said, it's old technology. You probably want a flash drive that is compatible with current computers.
2284991
I honestly can't answer this....I am hoping so.......I am an author and got stuck with several older manuscripts on floppy disks...
2018342
Yes but you will need a program that can decode the HD disks. You will need to search the internet for the program.