PURCHASED MEMOREX USB FLOPPY DRIVER #720KB/1.44 EXTERNAL FLOPPY....I RECENTLY WAS PLACED IN A NURSING FACILITY WHEN MY COMPUTER EQUIPMENT WAS TRANSFERRED HERE, THE INSTRUCTION PAPER FOR THE MEMOREX USB FLOPPY DRIVER #720KB/1.44 WAS LOST; HOW TO OBTAIN A COPY OF INSTRUCTION SHEET?

Did you ever get a solution to this problem because I am having the same issue.

This I am afraid is going to be a real problem. The original 01WFD's were shipped with the single density (720Kb) floppy drives, not the easier to find 1.44Mb ones. You could try contacting Korg.

From experience I can tell you that while many of the drives have similar interfaces, the music companies often had drives that required special strapping in regards to the drive select. There are not many of the single density ones around anymore... you might find one in a computer recycler's archives.

Trying to use the common double density 1.44Mb disks in the Korg is NOT going to work either, and if you have tried this, that MAY be why you are having problems, and new floppy drive isn't going to fix the problem... The "artifacts" left by 1,44 formatting remain between the tracks when put into the Korg.

To get around this, you can try TAPING over the extra hole that 1.44 disks have AND most importantly magnetically DEGAUSS the disk and then reformat using the drive in the Korg.

Try connecting the external device to another computer, to see if can be detected on that computer. If not, then the device itself has a problem.

Otherwise, try connecting your device to a different USB port on your computer.

Also, try some other USB device (camera, memory-stick) in each of your computer's USB ports, to confirm that the USB ports themselves are working.

USB floppy drive support may not enabled by default in the BIOS. Enter the BIOS setup utility and enable USB-FD support.

Try a new cable this may work if not it sounds like the HDD has failed you can try placing the drive in a zip lock bag and but it in the fridge overnight then try again if this fails then its U/S.

This sounds like it MIGHT be a floppy drive problem rather than a full memory... REMEMBER to ONLY try recording a file no bigger than what the floppy will hold which is 720Kb.

NOTE: The disks used in this are not the COMMON 3.5 inch floppies, but the older 2DD 720K floppies. They have only one hole on corners where the new 1.44 Mb ones have two holes.

To USE the 1.44 Mb flopies do this: Use an opaque tape to cover the hole that does NOT have the write protect slider. THEN most omportantly DEGAUSS the disk with a degausser. THEN Reformat the disk in the CVP 65.

The pre-formatted 1.44 disk when formated at the 720Kb used by the CVP 65 will have ARTIFACTS between tracks since the higher density also have half the track spacing and the formatting doesn't always clean enough width leaving artifacts between the tracks when formatted as 720Kb These ARTIFACTS can cause trouble.

The 720Kb disks are ESSENTIALLY unavailable anymore.

You may have a virus causing this...OR your computer USB MIGHT not be putting out the required 1/2 amp current. That you can fix by using a powered USB hub.

Any USB external Floppy drive will work with any computer with a USB port, but if you have Windows 98 you will need an USB driver.

As I understand it the computer recognizes the floppy drive.

Can you read other discs, write to them etc? If not drive is bad

If you can read other discs then your floppy disk is bad

Normally windows will install any driver for a usb floppy drive automatically. If it needs one. I'm surprised that it hasn't just worked by plugging it in as there cheap floppy drives over purchased have all just worked without the need to install drivers on win xp and higher. Remember you won't see the drive appear under my computer until it has a disc inserted in it though.