The Sabrent multi card reader & 3.5 floppy was easy to install and worked great for a while. However, now only the 3.5 floppy works. The card reader is not recognized by Windows XP. Device Manager shows the drivers are not there to run the card reader. I can't locate any drivers for this plug & play device.

update the drivers

Hello there Bill,

This takes me back many years. !!!!

It is most odd these days to find people still using Floppy Drives. Are you SURE you want a floppy disc drive ? They cannot store very much at all.

First of all, before you do anything, Open your PC and MAKE SURE you have a socket on it for a floppy drive. !!!!! If necessary get the model and make of the Motherboard and check on its manufacturers website that it has a socket.
THIS IS IMPORTANT as modern computer motherboards DO NOT provide floppy interface sockets. and you cannot run a floppy on them.

Right, the Floppy needs a 34 way cable with connectors both ends
There is no USB connection for a floppy disc drive.
If you bought a floppy and all-in-one card reader item then the usb is for the card reader and NOT for the floppy..

A picture and explanation of it are here http://pcguide.com/ref/fdd/confCable-c.html

This is what you need to buy. Dont worry it looks long at complicated, it is just that it has extra connectors .

Install the cable in to the motherboard and floppy, Your computer will recognise the floppy automatically and off you go.

Good luck

Your floppy disk drive may be defective. Also, Some floppy drives are manufactured differently. Your best bet is to find another floppy drive to read your floppy disk. You can try to take it to the nearest computer store and ask them to read it for you. If they can read it at the computer store? The Sabrent drive you received if bad. If they cannot read it the floppy is bad. If the floppy is bad you can try to download free data recovery software to attempt to recover your data, files etc. Good luck

you can visit manufacture websit
http://www.sabrent.com/category/mac-compatible/CRW-FLP2/
hope that it helped

I too am having a problem with the Sabrent floppy drive.
I'm running a windows 7, 64bit system, everything installed ok,
but I kept getting a "install disk" message every time I tried to
access the drive. (I did have a disk installed.)
Any thoughts?
Thanks

I believe SD card readers plug into the usb, the sd card then plugs into the reader to read.
A permanent sd card slot can be installed in the small floppy disc tray and plugged into the mobo.
But the sd usb option is bone cheap.
http://www.interweb.in/pc-news/15420-sd-card-reader.html
http://www.thinktechno.com/2008/02/28/62-in-1-usb-internal-multi-card-reader/

uninstall the software & connect to the other pci slot if it founding the new hardware when the desktop comes the card is ok & the problems is in tunner section

Check your Bios Settings.

install the proper driver for it

Well, installing an internal card reader without a spot on the motherboard, is a little hard to do. I would suggest buying an external card reader. They are a little cheaper, and a lot easier to setup and use, since they just connect to a USB port which all computers have.