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Hi Ok

        I need to put a floppy drive on the pc  ,  thought an external one to usb would be the easy route but I am running Windows 7 and it looks like most do not want to play ....can some one recomend one that will work with   windows 7

                   Thanks Dave

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Hi Ok

   funny this is what I  read on the drive  Quote

   I received my Gembird USB Floppy reader (with no CD as I read in other reviews) plugged it into PC port, my new Windows 7 pc recognised it in aeconds, but no joy with reading ANY of my floppys, everytime it asked to 'format the disk first' but I wasnt ever going to do that and risk losing my files, so its back to Amazon this Gembird will be flying.

    Dave

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On that Amazon link there was one adverse review, but 15 others all very pleased with it. I think that tells me that Mr Grumpy was probably doing something wrong.

If you've got a load of disks to read I reckon it's worth the £13 to try it, and if it doesn't work, send it back. I can't remember when floppy drives stopped being supported but it must be about 10 years ago; I know that I had dumped all my disks before moving here 9 years ago. If you wait much longer you won't find any peripherals left. Massive capacity eh, 1.44MB !

 

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