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I have a USB portable diskette external floppy drive. It is new. It is supposed to work by simply plugging the in teh usb. When I try to use it, it always tells me to format the disk. i of course, do not want to do that. I have windows xp, what do i do?
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If it won't plug and play then your basically out of luck. That is a very old device. If you still need to access floppy's i would purchase a newer device or have an internal floppy installed. thank you, Lee
this device is plug and play does not need any type of configuration basically you plug the device and the server (PC) would usually recognize it as the "A" unit
Hi Graham,
Your Portable USB 3.5 diskette drive uses a pretty old technology that would come with software or drivers needed to run it. You would need to check on your device manager on control panel. But I would advise you upgrade yourself to better storage devices like the flash drive or the CD/DVD USB portable drives. They are a bit more expensive, but the technology is newer and have less issues. Let's face it, the 3.5 diskettes are getting pretty outdated. Don't you think so?
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