RAAYOO USB Floppy Disk Reader Drive, 3.5” External Portable 1.44 MB FDD Diskette Drive for Mac Windows 10/7/8/XP/Vista PC Laptop Desktop Notebook Computer Plug and Play No Extra Drivers– Black
- Retrieve Beautiful Memory from Decades Ago - Perfect to read old floppy disks, you could get photos of your kids when they were young, you also could find numerous treasured documents long ago stored on floppy disks
- Transfer Your Files to Other Devices for Storing - You could download your entire 3.5" diskette documents into your computer with our drive, so you can store them into CDR's and portable hard drives
- Easy to Use, Plug and Play - No extra driver required, just directly plug it into USB connector, it will be recognized by your computer and install driver automatically. With interference preventer, effectively prevent the drive from external noise. Powered directly from the USB port, no external power required. USB 1.1/2.0 is compatible
- Universal Compatibility – Support for Mac Windows 10/7/8/XP/Vista PC Laptop Desktop Notebook Computer,for Dell, for Acer, for Sony, for HP, for Lenovo, etc
- Reliable and Friendly Customer Service - Ready to respond within a 24 hour time frame,30-Day money back guarantee,1 Year Warranty
Roh Rayman
Really, it's just a plug and play unit
It works as advertised. I have over 300 floppy's and a lot of them has pictures on them. I wasn't able to retrieve about 14 of them and wasn't able to retrieve half my data floppy's because of incompatible software. The good news is that my library has updated computers and because of it's design, I was able plug and use this device at the library to retrieve most of my data. In all, of the 300 floppy's, 26 were deteriorated to where I could not get any info from! Another concern that has nothing to do with this unit. Most of my floppy's were 18-20 years old and I have noticed a degrading of content. I am very happy with this purchase!
Sarah Missja
Best devic to go into past.
I had files on floppy disks since 1999 and they were in my storage . But recently I had some issues with my property and time had passed and I did not remember what was the deal made at that time , but suddenly I remembered that I had saved all the files on my floppy disks and there was no way to retrieve those records because time has changed and no PC now a days have any floppy drive. So, i started searching on Amazon and I found this product cheaper than any other brand ,so I took a risk and bought this device from the above seller . The product came in 2 days because of prime membership and I was really very happy when this little device worked and I copied all my files from floppy to my PC via usb and then transfered to a usb flash drive and printed on my printer and was ready for my court date with all evidence. This worked like magic for me and I will recommend this device to anyone who wants to copy floppy to usb.
Melissa Huotari Carlson
Need a USB Floppy? Consider this one! This drive does work as advertised.
The drive is well constructed and packaged better than most. Hardware is reported to Windows as a Teac Device. On the machine/device level, Windows 10 "sees" the unit and reports it in the Device manager and in the Drive manager but not the File manager. There are various system tweaks on-line, to get it displayed in File-Explorer. If you have Windows 7 on down, no problem at all. Flawless detection start to finish. Not Exactly Plug+Play with Win10.
Jeta Jeta
Replug to change diskettes!!
I got quick delivery of the RAAYOO USB 3.5-inch diskette drive, model D001-BK (they also list this as part number RY-D001). Everything seemed to work fine. I was able to fully copy a 1.4 Mb diskette about 20 years old!! Thank you!! I tried this on an older HP Win7 laptop. With large stacks of my older diskettes (and my older computers are mostly dead), it's a relief to read these diskettes even though I backed up most of them to CD-ROM's and large USB hard disks long ago. Here are some observations: > If you are experienced with diskette drives, there is one HUGE observation: REPLUG TO CHANGE DISKETTES Unplug and reconnect the USB cable if you change diskettes. The User Manual mentions this and someone else here made a similar comment. This is different than most of us remember diskettes where you just pop in a new diskette. WON'T WORK!! It's no biggie, just remember to replug the USB otherwise the folder listings will be wrong. > The driver software takes a while to fully load after you plug in the USB cable. Wait a minute or so until the spinning icon on the taskbar finishes twirling and it reports a successful load. You'll only need this delay ONCE per computer. When you plug in the drive again, it will come to life quickly since it should find the driver already installed. I did NOT try this on a Win 10 but I suspect no problems. Nor did I try this on older, low density 720 Kb 3.5-inch diskettes. They make a big point of NOT using a USB extension cable. The supplied USB cord is about 18 inches. > Make sure that your Explorer folder and file skills are good (copy, paste, sort, rename files, etc.). When everything was ready, there was a correct "Drive A:" indication in my Windows File Explorer. It was located on TOP of Drive C:, possibly because the File Explorer puts the drives in alphabetical order. If you already have an installed "drive A:", this USB drive will probably relocate to another drive letter but I could not try this. You use that Explorer "Drive A:" icon to do your copying instead of the taskbar icon. I suggest copying a whole diskette to a new folder on your computer. > I don't recommend running an executable program (.EXE, .MSI or .COM file extension) directly from the diskette drive. (Okay, you call them "apps"!!) Running a program would probably work but instead, copy the file(s) to your main disk first. Then run the program. As you probably know, some older EXE and COM programs will not run under new Windows. You can try them under the COMMAND prompt. Be aware that some programs WRITE files to the default drive as they run. > Similarly, some older format programs can be copied but may not work (such as WRI or ".WS" Wordstar files?). Or you may be able to load them and re-save to newer formats. You may have to play tricks in the file menu to emulate running under an older operating system. > I was able to copy (write) a file TO the diskette drive from my main disk. I did NOT attempt to FORMAT (initialize) a new blank diskette. Again, it would probably work but why do it?? I am guessing that this USB diskette drive does the correct things with the file layout (FAT, etc.). Remember to adjust the Write Protect gadget off if you wish to attempt writing. > As usual, make sure that your entire computer is always fully backed up. I didn't write the driver for this diskette drive so hopefully, it has no problems.
Princess Sarah Muñoz
Just what I needed
While going through storage I discovered dozens of old floppy disks I had stored information on. I didn't want to just toss them without knowing what was still on them. Had been years since I had a computer that could read these 3.5 floppies. Found this reader on Amazon and decided to give it a try. At first I didn't think it was working right, but then I remembered I've just gotten used to the speed of newer computers, DVDs, CDs, and thumb drives. I realized the slow speed was actually the old disks and not the device. This floppy disk reader works just as described. Easy plug and play. Only problem I had was the formatting of the disks from old computer programming, so when I tried to read what was on the disks, it wasn't recognized by my new system. I'm sure there is probably a way to make the disks readable, but my main reason for purchasing the disk reader was to make sure I could clean the disks prior to disposal. The disk reader did the job I needed it to do. I was able to delete the material saved on the old disks. Bottom line, I am satisfied with the floppy disk reader.
Robin Stricklin
USB RAAYOO Floppy Disk Reader
Easy to use. I literally plugged it into the USB port on the Macbook Pro and it opened all the files and photos on the old floppy disks I had. I did have to go to the app store and install a program to read all the old files (Windows) but that was easy to do as well. Price is great and shipping was very fast. I would recommend.
Sheelagh Kathryn Lovaas
Works flawlessly; excellent buy! Very highly recommend!
I bought this to FINALLY get rid of all of my old 3.5" floppies that I have had in a corner of a closet. I was hesitant to throw them all away because I didn't know exactly what was in all of them. For the nominal price of around $11 this great-working floppy disk reader by Raayoo solved my problems. It was an easy connect to my laptop's USB port and it read the floppies so that I could transfer any old files I wanted to keep to my laptop. It worked flawlessly, with the only very minor issue I had that after a couple of hours of idling, MS Explorer stopped reading the drive. I tried connecting it to various other USB ports on my computer to no avail, but the solution ended up being quite simple: just restarted the computer and the drive was working fine again. So nothing wrong with the drive; it worked as advertised. Issue was operating system on my laptop's end. I very highly recommend this. Now what to do with this very slightly used floppy reader that I will never use again...
Jered Quarles
It worked!
I'm so pleased with this external floppy disk drive reader! A user manual was included (a mini 6 page leaflet) but basically you plug in device directly into USB port of laptop (in my case), wait for it to be recognized which should only be a few seconds, insert the disk into reader, locate the drive under your computer, click, wait for the files to appear and copy! I got it a few days ago and so far haven't had any issues in the two times I've used it; once on my home laptop and the other on my work laptop. There are some troubleshooting details in the manual but luckily I haven't had any issues so far. It read all of the disks I had with data and I was able to copy over documents and photos to new media! There was one disk I had that wasn't marked (I figured it was blank but wanted to be sure) and when inserted, it did give me a message about it needing to be formatted confirming for me that it was a blank disk. Also, when switching disks, make sure the reader is not on and wait for the light to go out/noise to stop before removing a disk--just like the old days! Then after inserting another disk, go back to the drive location, click on the external drive of the device and it will read the next disk. It was a great piece of mind to know what was on the disks before destroying/throwing them out and to free up some space!
Mary Dewitt
Totally worth the price...
Allow me to begin this review with a back story. I was cleaning up some old storage boxes in the back of my studio, when I came across four old boxes of 3.5-inch disks. The dates on the boxes indicated that they were created in 1991 – 1992. That made them about 28 years old. My research indicated that this type of storage media will last: 3 – 5 years under regular write/rewrite use. 10 – 20 years if properly stored (controlled temp & humidity) And, one site claimed that under perfect storage conditions they might last up to 30 years. That put me just under the wire. But, was the information on those old disks of any conceivable value? In looking at the old labels, I discovered that they contained my research notes, on the first three books that I had published. I thought that I lost them long ago, but here they were… maybe. As a Prime member, my first stop was to Amazon. To be honest with you, I did not even know if anyone sold 3.5-inch disk readers. After doing a bit of browsing, I settled on this model. I was looking for a balance between price and reliability, and this one fit the bill. Coming in at just over $13.00 (USD), I felt that even if the data was gone, I was not breaking the bank. The unit arrived in two days, free shipping (you gotta’ love Amazon Prime). It came in a bubble wrap envelope, and the unit was a study box, wrapped in more bubble wrap (double bubble). The computers in my studio are all Macintosh, and one of the reasons I purchased this model is that the manufacturers claimed it worked on Macs. So, I plugged it in (USB), and stuck the first disk into the slot. It popped in with a smart snap, and started happily spinning away. Then, nothing. After a few minutes I got the dreaded message: This Disk is Unreadable, Do you wish to initialize it? DANG! I popped it out and sighed. 1 down… 39 more to go. I stuck the next one in and crossed my fingers, 20 seconds later, a beautiful icon popped up on my main screen… After almost 30 long years, sitting in a box, it had successfully read my disk. YEAH!!! Out of the original 40 disks, it successfully read 37. Each one of those disks could hold 1.44 MB of data. Not much by today’s standards, is it? I doubt if the 3 that it was unable to read, had anything to do with the reader; they were just too old. The reader performed like a champ. Bottom Line Easy to use (plug and play). Fast transfer of data. Worked on diskettes almost 30 years old. Totally worth the price. Full Stop.
Shelly Mae
Good product!
We just found some old 3.5 floppies from the moving boxes. There are a lot of photos in it so we go ahead to get a floppy disk drive. It does the job and we now have our old photos stored in an external hard disk. Useful gadget, just something that might come in handy in the future for other friends and family.