Nice2MiTu 3.5" USB External Floppy Disk Drive Portable 1.44 MB FDD USB Drive Plug and Play for PC Windows 10 7 8 XP Vista Mac Black (1P)

I have boxes full of old 3.5" floppies including many from a deceased family member that I wanted to review and possibly save a few files to hard drive. Other than that there is no realistic use for having a 3.5" drive on a regular basis. So if it survived the task of letting me review a hundred or so disks the $13 price will have been well worth it. Comments: 1. Surprisingly nice quality of construction 2. Installed itself under Win 7 in a few seconds 3. Recognized the first disk I inserted and read it perfectly, and every disk thereafter 4. Brought back memories of how slow 3.5" floppies really were (not the fault of the drive) 5. The actual manufacturer of the drive is NEC NOTE: If you plug the drive in and no motor starts whirring or lights come on, don't assume it's defective. The drive will ONLY spin up after you insert a disk AND manually select Drive A on your list of drives, then it goes dormant again until you mouse click on a file you want to open. I think that's why some people thought they received a defective drive. [UPDATE] - I hadn't finished the task of copying the old floppies yet and recently bought a new high-end computer with Win 7 - 64 bit (by choice). Same as before, the drive was recognized instantly and had no problem reading the disks. I offer this to others who are trying to work with old floppies that may be 30 years old ... it may not be this drive but simply that with time those old disks have aged to the point they are just not usable. 95% of mine read fine but a few were simply too old and dried out to spin properly.

Works on Windows 10 as indicated in the product description. I simply plugged the reader into one of my laptop USB ports, opened up Devices & Printers and there it was. With a right click on the disk drive symbol, it then showed an option to read the files. A click on that and all the files I had on the floppy disk were listed. All my files opened up without any problems. Now I was able to retrieve all my old documents and pdf's and copy over onto my laptop. The one thing I must say is that it was somewhat noisy. Scared me at first as I thought maybe there was something wrong with the reader but maybe I've forgotten just how noisy the old floppy disk readers were???

I needed a way to access some old floppy disks, and this 3.5 USB external floppy drive worked perfectly. It was super easy to use—just plug it into the USB port, and it was ready to go. No drivers or extra software needed on my MacBook Pro. The drive feels sturdy and well-made, and it read my disks without any issues. It’s lightweight and compact, so it’s easy to store when I’m not using it. Overall, I’m very satisfied—this little device saved me a ton of hassle. Highly recommend it for anyone needing a reliable external floppy drive!

I have trays of floppy picture disks with pictures from the late 1990s. My computer has no A drive. So I bought a USB floppy drive from Fry's electronics and it was terrible, failed to eject disk and I returned it. Thought of resurrecting an old PC I have but it needed a monitor and keyboard/mouse plus somewhere to set it up. After several months of grumbling I saw a reference to this floppy drive on a website with this unbelievably low price, so I ordered it. The drive showed up quickly (Prime) and I plugged it into a USB port on my computer. It set up the drivers instantly and I quickly ran through a tray of about 30 disks, transferring the images to my hard drive of my now 22 yo son when he was 4, 5, and 6. This drive quickly reads the disks and displays the thumbnails on Windows Explorer in about a minute. I can click-shift click the entire contents and drag to my hard-drive, taking less than a minute to transfer 30 images (the images back then were about 40 K jpegs). I transferred files other than jpegs from other old floppy disks I found lying around. Have used it heavily for a few days now and it works great.

I ordered one of these drives with the intentions of reading older floppies, and to write some new ones for use in some old dos machines. The moment my drive arrived I could tell that the plastic in the front of the drive was warped, and the door was being blocked off from opening as a result. I was able to push it open but it kept opening weirdly. I plugged in the drive to my windows 10 laptop and it was detected just fine. However I inserted a disk and I continuously started getting read errors and write errors. Most of the time they were "Disk not formatted" errors even though I knew they worked just fine in my dos machine and an older USB floppy drive I have. I tried everything to get this drive to work, messed with window settings, tried 3 different computers and tried tons more diskettes. I kept getting the same results, errors after errors. I even blew into the drive and a dust cloud shot out of it! I was pretty upset about it so I got an exchange from Amazon (Thank you for the excellent customer support!), in hopes it was just a lemon. Nope, I plugged it in, got it to work for about 30 seconds (Though the drive was a little quieter than the first one), and it started throwing the same errors as before, mainly on writing. I even plugged in some old elder scrolls diskettes and ran Dosbox, but it would not read those either. Again tried different computers and settings, but nothing worked. I returned it and got a refund, again thanks to Amazon's amazing support. Do not get this drive. I got a different brand off of Amazon from Esynic and I am much happier now. Reads and writes every time. Get that one instead, this drive is just throwing your money away.

Worked great. I was able to relocate all my files to my hard drive. Plug and play. Easy to install

It was super simple to use on an M1 Mac mini. Just plug and play. Worked flawlessly.

Amazing product great creativity in the unboxing letter they have told everything about the desk and I really helps to work it out please try to use it on a windows 10 PC as windows 11 new PC's it's quite difficult to even find the floppy drive on it

No tuve problemas para conectar la unidad de diskettes y la reconoce como unidad A

Fonctionne comme prévu lorsque connecté directement au port USB de l'ordinateur mais pas si connecté sur une extension USB. Je n'ai pas essayé via un concentrateur USB alimenté.

El producto llegó antes de la fecha estimada y funcionó correctamente; me deshice de decenas de diskettes guardados en el archivero y recuperé información y fotos que no recordaba.