This is shoddy work by somebody, and needs to be fixed.Īt least the floppy drive does work with Windows 7. So it supposes that the 720k disk is not formatted. The TEAC FD-05PUB driver is badly written and only understands the latter format. The reason seems to be that the floppy was an original 3.5″ 720kb unit, while later 3.5″ drives were formatted for 1.44 mb. Obviously it could not read the disk, so no good.Īt this end of the game, I think I understand why.
But when I inserted the first floppy, Windows told me that the floppy needed to be formatted.
This seems to be the one USB floppy drive available under various names. My first instinct was to use my travelling laptop, which runs Windows 7, and a USB external floppy drive which is branded as Dell but seems to be display the label TEAC FD-05PUB in Devices and Printers. But it was possible that some contained files and photographs of a deceased relative, which should be preserved. Most of them were plainly software, of no special relevance. How to recover missing, lost, or deleted files.Yesterday I inherited a couple of cases of old 3.5″ floppy disks.If this information is valuable information that cannot be lost and is not stored anywhere else, you may want to consider a data recovery service for lost or deleted files. How to troubleshoot floppy disk drive issues.
If no floppy diskette can be read in the computer, but other computers read the diskettes, run through floppy diskette drive troubleshooting. We recommend you copy the contents of the diskette to your hard drive as a backup, and try using an alternate floppy diskette to transfer the information. If the diskette works in the computer, there may still be errors on the diskette. If the diskette contains valuable information or information that is only able to be found on this diskette, try reading the diskette in another computer. If other diskettes can be read in the computer is likely a bad diskette. Try alternate floppy diskettes in the computer. This issue is usually caused by a bad floppy diskette. Updated: by Computer Hope Bad floppy or error with diskette