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April 11th, 2017 14:00
Transferring from old floppy disks
So I was cleaning out some old boxes & cam across a bunch of old 3.5 floppy disks I had forgotten about. I had done some artwork pictures & would love to see them again.
I have a Dell OptiPlex 3020 Windows 10 & came across a floppy disk drive on ebay below. Would like to know if this will do the job of transferring my old pics onto my computer. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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ejn63
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April 12th, 2017 12:00
A USB floppy is the same no matter the OS -- unless an OS has specifically eliminated floppy support (Windows 10 hasn't, OS-X in the Mac world has), any USB floppy drive will work.
ejn63
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April 12th, 2017 04:00
You can use a USB floppy drive under WIndows 10 -- yes. Windows will need to load a driver, so be sure the system is online when you plug in the drive.
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April 12th, 2017 08:00
The disk I had picked out was the cheapest one I could find. Did you notice the description said the Operating systems supported were Windows 98/SE/2000/ME/XP/VISTA/Windows 7 ?
Do you think I'll have to choose a more expensive one specifically geared to Windows 10?
Sorry just trying to save money. Thanks for your reply