Using a Floppy Disk Drive via USB? 

I'm interested in this because I have a box of unused floppy disks that I want to label Death Star Plans, put a jpeg blueprint in, and just leave it in places.

I HAVE BEEN WANTING THIS FOR SO LONG!!! OMG YOU ARE MY NEW HERO! SORRY FOR CAPS BUT I AM SUPER EXCITED!!!

I already bought one of those usb floppy drives (the small ones), and you're absolutely right. they are so unreliable! If i write a file on the disk, i cannot be sure that the drive will read it back even without removing the disk! I'm gonna order one of these right now. Thank you.

Where can I obtain the double-female power connector? Thank you, Chris.

Another easy way to read floppy disks both 1.44mb aswell as 720k on modern systems is to get one of the floppy drives that came with the dell inspiron 8500/8600 series laptops it has a usb microb connection on the side so it can be used standalone and it supports 720k floppy disks.

this is all fine and dandy but what about the slot connectors on 5.25 inch drives? can't seem to find the solution therefor at a glance...

My dream is to have a sleeper pc with all flagship modern parts like a 9900k and 2080ti but all with green, red, or blue pcbs, swap out all of the heatsinks and shrouds with ancient looking alternatives, remove the heat spreaders from some high speed low latency ram, and swap it with some of those crazy heat pipe ram coolers, the same style heat spreader for the m.2 nvme drives, an old fashioned sound card with a game port, 10gb nic, wireless card, and then some legacy port cards like parallel and serial, all with green, blue, or red pcbs all matching with the motherboard and gpu. Stuff it inside of a beautiful solid steel full tower case with 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives, a Blu-ray reader, a blu-ray writer, a Zip drive, a super floppy drive, a jazz drive, and a tape drive reader all up front. I want to paint all of the blue USB ports white so they look legacy, build custom flat cables for all of the drives, mod a modern titanium rated psu to be non modular and use ketchup and mustard cables, and finish off everything by opening up modern hdds to look like those old raptor hard drives. To complete the look I would create adaptors for the display ports and hdmi ports that make them look like legacy ports with screw locks. Add a loud pc speaker, and complete the look with a model m keyboard, and a 2k high refresh rate crt monitor and some Roland speakers and mixer. Oh and don’t forget the turbo button. I would want to somehow get the turbo button working, where depending on the mode you set, it will load up different versions of windows on start up with different parts of the cpu disabled to allow it to play older games (if I could even get something like that working). I would love to see the look on someone’s face when they ask to use my computer and I direct them to that, and they think it won’t be fast enough to check their twitter feed. Little do they know it’s faster than anything they have ever used. But I also have the dream of building my childhood dream computer from 1999-2000 and making a ricer pc out of the original hardware. Mill out custom gpu block, full motherboard block and reservoirs, motherboard armor to hide its age, custom ram water blocks, custom sleeved cables, hidden zip and 3.5 floppy drives, a slim slot loading optical drive, all inside a custom tempered glass case with thick radiators and rgb fans (even though I hate rgb). Add in adapters that let you have usb c, hdmi, wireless/bt, etc. you could have someone use that computer and it looks like it should be faster than the sleeper pc. So fun.

I have a Floppy Disk Drive mobile (HP F2013A) and a DB36 to USB converter cable. How can I configure this device (HP F2013A) to work with this cable (DB36 to USB)? I've done a lot of research on the internet, but I can only get information to set up printers.

Ciao Paolo, ho acquistato l'interfaccia USB descritta ,rileva la presenza del floppy drive che gira , ma non legge ne scrive .Io uso Windows 7 Pro ,ho provato con 4 diversi drive e con tanti floppy sia da 720 che da 1,44 Mb ,nulla da fare ,gira un po' e poi chiede di formattare il disco perche'non lo trova ,faccio partire la formattazione c'e la tabella di inizio procedura da windows ,ma poi niente .Secondo te puo' dipendere dal sistema operativo?Forse con Win XP o addirittura W98 potrebbe funzionare?Grazie !

will this work with dosbox?

You could also run a FTP server on your lan, and connect to any computer via a hub/switch, the filetransfer would be much faster; you can use a small laptop as file server, or spare computer with any linux flavor. I think DOS supports FTP quite well.

is that an old IBM clicky ps2 keyboard (with no windows key) lol. I have one of these, on a side note I also have (stored away) a double-deck floppy drive, a 5 1/4 drive, and a 3 1/2 drive connected together shows up as drive A and B

How can I run my 1994 floppies on my pc dell windows 10. The disk are a flight simulator. I also have a DOS OS/2, version 3 ready for install.

I think I need one for backing up all of my old floppy disks. Games, Photos and Doc.

Can you make a 5.25” floppy USB drive?

I wonder if the floppy disk drive will be compatible with a new 64bit operating system.

where can I find that 4 pin floppy cable?

does any 1 here know where to buy (get) a fluorescent floppy disk drive cover case (enclosure) from?? thanks...............

Stavo per ordinare questa schedina su Aliexpress, poi ho letto alcuni pareri negativi di gente che riferiva "periferica USB non riconosciuta" ma se mi confermi che è valida, penso che la ordinerò. Grazie per il video esplicativo.

"A:\ is not accessible. The disk media is not recognized. It may not be formatted." multiple pc's and different floppies to try and get it working. Using an old sony floppy drive. Any ideas on how to get it working?

Wher do you get it from

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if you connect 2 of those adapters with floppy's you you get A: and B: at the same time ?

Is there no modern motherboard with floppy support :(

Can I connect 5'25 floppy drive to this?

will this work on HP ENVY Desktop--Intel Core i7 desktop using windows 10?

I have an old Toshiba 3.5”/USB drive, cir 2004. It works perfectly. They quit putting floppy drives on laptops and you needed a floppy/USB to flash the BIOS. Like I said it works perfextly and I only use 1.44 disks. Your floppy could be placed in a hard drive enclosure. They have the 5 and 12 volt power avaiable. You would have to change the IDE to your floppy controller.

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Will it also work on a 3 inch floppy disk drive as well?

Il computer lo rileva cone disco Floppy oppure come disco di memoria? Ho un software che scrive solo direttamente su floppy e vorrei usare questo adattatore collegato all'emulatore gotek per scrivere su chiavetta. Grazie!

Thanks for the video! Just got my adapter card at Amazon (where it costs $19), and I wasn't sure which way around I was supposed to plug it in the floppy drive, so your video helped. P.S. I found my floppy drive at a recycling point for old electronics, so when I discovered an old desktop case, dating back to maybe around 2005ish, with the floppy drive (model number JU-256A198PCR) still attached to it, I decided to... appropriate it for myself. >:D Now, I just need to get my hands on some floppy disks and on an old PC case that has slots for floppy and CD drives.

hello genius I'm looking for that but for 5 1/4 diskettes I want it to be Usb Do you have any idea if that exists?

Where do I get the adapter..?

if you think that the IBM model M is a good keyboard then you should try the model F, the model M is actually the cost reduced version of the model F which has a full metal zinc housing and capcitive buckling springs instead of the membrane used on the model M

hi, what about 5,25" disk drives??? can i do this with these?

For who are planning to add the floopy permanently to the tray, I would recommend swapping the usb connector to pin connectors for the pin headers on MB (the lines are the same 5V+, D+, D-, GND)

why they do not update the firmware so 5.25 to work here

Nice IBM Model M at the background

it works great i have 2 of them

Muy bueno. Felicitaciones

Do you know if it possible read floppy 720 KB?

How much for that keyboard?

hi, that just work on "modern" floppydrive that use power on the side like in this video, dont try it on the those who dont have the power connection, that wont work, i just converted old ibm modell 30 - 286 ide connection that use power rail in ide cabel and change it to new floppy that have power connection on the side. just put it for u so u know about it.

this card works with usb 3.0 connection because it absorbs more than 500ma a floppy driver

È disponibile il video in italiano?

The connector type you see on the back is called an "IDE" for the data. The four pin connector for power is called a "molex". IDE / Molex was the typical connector ribbon type for CD , HDD, floppy drives through the 90's. The ribbons generally were very flat and wide compared to SATA.

Took to long to get to the punch line, I left

5:14 to get going? You can do better.

A very boring tutorial. You don't go straight to the point. Good points though