20 Most Recent BYTECC (BT144) External Floppy Drive Questions & Answers

Yes, you need to plug in a 4 pin FLoppy Molex connector. Your power supply should have at least one. The power connector is right next to the Floppy Drive connector.

Also, the Floppy connector goes in with pin 1 (The red stripe) to the left looking at the unit from the back (furthest away from power).

There is no manual to speak of.

I'm not a Mac tech, but I wouldn't see why not. Floppy drives are kinda old school now. You may need a driver for the floppy. Check online and see what you can find. Download and install it. Or you may have to plug the floppy in, then reboot, to get the Mac to recognize it, especially with a USB port. Some old Windozz machines were like that...maybe your Mac too???? Mac OS is very close to Linux/Unix systems, which have awful support for floppy drives. That's another possibility. If your windows machine can't read the disk, makes me think the floppy drive is bad or you have corrupted files on the disk. Try a couple known good floppy disks on the Windoz box and see what happens. Or another removable floppy drive. They cost $5 to $10 now.

light only appears when accessing data from disk. Check that you have right drivers... that is it.

Look to see if it shows up in your device manager. If there, delete and reinsert it from scratch. See if the drive hums once when you plug it in (recognizing it). USB cable might be broken inside if it does not register.

Hi, It should just plug in and work. To the best of my knowledge these come with no manuals.

http://download.cnet.com/tt56install-3-zip/3000-2109_4-124957.html driver package154.69MB http://download.cnet.com/tt4h-s-j2569r-zip/3000-2109_4-207099.html driverpackage 490MB if these driver packages are not right http://download.cnet.com/2000-20_4.html on the home page you should see a search tab just type in what you are looking for (be precise)also the download software finder under that there will be a list place a tick in the box of any one you want/need all software windows software mac software mobile and web apps

http://majorgeeks.com/downloads35.html

also this link will provide you with many freeware and share drivers

hope this helps you

you might be installing the driver through the right process
click start right click on computer select properties device manager scroll through all of your devices if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or a red X you will need to update the drivers for this device right click select update driver/reinstall driver if you can see your usb device but its not working scroll to Ports(Com&Ltd) right click to update driverhope this helps you

You should test this external floppy drive on another computers. If it doesn't work on any PC you should probably return it.

Though if this problem is exclusive to your PC there's somethings you can check:

• That your Hard Drive is the appropiate format in order to be recognized by your machine (NSTC).
• That you're plugging it directly to a usb port on your PC and not on a USB hub since these devices require a lot of power and sometimes a USB hub doen't have enough to power it.

if you look at the picture you can see where the usb ports are thats where the usb lead from your drive goes

number 10 is the usb ports John

I suspect a problem with either your former drive or the TECC drive. May I suggest you try formatting a disk with the TECC to see it will recognize that disk as formatted?

If your other drive was a little off and all your floppies were written by that drive, I hope you still have it. On the other hand, if the floppies were written by the TECC, it being a external drive, it may have been dropped accidently and it now is out of whack requiring adjustment.

Im sorry you are having this trouble.