USB Floppy Drive,Chuanganzhuo 3.5' USB External Floppy Disk Drive Portable 1.44 MB FDD USB Drive Plug and Play for PC Windows 10/7/8, Windows XP, Vista,for Mac (White) by Chuanganzhuo $13.89 $ 13 89 Prime. Ultra small, lightweight USB floppy disk drive from Freecom Bootable with most notebook & desktop PCs Low noise, due to high quality materials Hot sw.

The floppy incarnation of Apple’s SuperDrive. Earlier SE and II models with the 800k drives and all older Macs cannot be assisted by an external USB floppy drive (as noted at the beginning of this article).

Clicking the Two-Sided button formatted the disk as 800k HFS. 800k DS disks formatted 400k MFS? Many Mac users have found it tough to let go of their older Macs, especially early on when they were (relatively) very expensive pieces of equipment. A person might have several Macs, one or more of them original 128k or 512k non-Enhanced “Fat Macs” (Fat=more RAM in this case) with the original 64k ROMs which only understood MFS format. Sitting in front of their 512KE or newer Mac (with 128k or larger ROMs), they might very well want to format a double-sided diskette as single-sided, for use in their older Mac(s)—especially in the latter years of the 1980s and thereafter when SS/DD 3.5' floppies first became scarce then disappeared from the market.

You must be confusing 5.25' floppy drives with 3.5' floppy drives. Macs never used 5.25' floppy drives but they largely pioneered 3.5' floppy drives. Following Apple's abandonment of floppy drives in the late 1990s, the peripheral market stepped-in with USB external 3.5' floppy drives. They 'just worked' with no additional drivers required. Windows PCs extant all continued to use built-in floppy drives--many of them using dual floppy drives. External 3.5' floppy drives were Mac peripherals because Windows did not need them. We can assume that a USB external floppy drive will still work on your Mac.

See this page for reference: To the original poster: If you think you can just buy any floppy drive and get things working, it may or may not work. Please re-read what I wrote above, and this post as well.

So, OS 9 ain’t gonna cut it. You need OS 7.6.1 or earlier to work with 400k MFS disks. Now, disk images are! Specifically, OS 7.6.1 will read MFS-formatted floppy disks, but it will not write to them, including erasing/reformatting them in their MFS form.

PST Cutoff: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Order placed after 11 a.m. PST is received Your order is picked, packed and sent out Your order is on its way to you Your order is delivered. ShippingPass Want to get your items fast without the pricey shipping fees?

To me, this formatting support indicates full read/write support in the OS/Finder, but i did not test it out. In other words, if you have DOS/Win PC 3.5' floppies which you want to use on your modern Mac, seems like you can pop ’em in your attached external floppy drive and go to town.

We'll cross that road when we come to it. And could always bootcamp or VMware into a different OS to read them and convert the data. But the stopping point for me right now is actually getting the 1s and 0s from the floppy media to her hard drive.

What does 2-day shipping really mean?• Your product will be shipped to its final destination to arrive in 2 business days or faster. If your order is placed before the 11 a.m. PST cutoff time, then it will ship that day and arrive 2 business days later.

It may be important when attempting to download old software off today’s Internet on a modern Mac and “take it back” to a Vintage Mac.Here are the results: PowerBook5,6 is also known as the 15' PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz January 2005 a.k.a. 15' PowerBook G4 Aluminum 1.67 GHz low-res. And/or single-layer (optical) SuperDrive a.k.a. The very next-to-last ever 15' PPC PowerBook. MacBook1,1 is also known as the very first model white MacBook.

Click to expand.No I understood your problem but perhaps I didn't explain it sufficiently enough. The reason a floppy drive won't work on mac is most likely due to the lack of drivers (Apple never had 3.5' floppy drives - not even in the first iMac). As a result the chances the floppy drives work with Mac OSX is minimal.

Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.

Since i have not worked at Apple since the mid 1990s and have not had access to their lab with every Mac since that time, the specific model and OS testing is limited as well (and may or may not be expanded upon in the future). Still, the following data points may prove informative. I used two test floppies, both 1.4 MB (since we already know that 800k and 400k Mac floppies won’t work).

You should not have to think about this sort of conversion i only mention it in case emailing is not working, as an area to investigate. Eudora 1.5.x can be set to handle this, and i vaguely remember its defaults being suitable. Once the files from the floppy disk(s) are properly pre-processed (compressed with no resource fork on the compressed file) for emailing, just email the file to yourself, either at your own, same email address or another one. There are so many variables in terms of emailing and ISP variations that this page cannot possibly cover them. If email proves too difficult, another method may be a better choice. Web Mail If your email is via the WWW rather than a standard email client, most of the issues above apply, yet there may be more or fewer. Again too many variables to discuss.

You will see this noted in checkout. Ineligible items & addresses • Items with freight charges • Items fulfilled by Walmart.com Marketplace sellers • Personalized items • eGift Cards • Any item that is not marked eligible on the product page or in checkout • International destinations SHIPPING & RETURNS.

Working with Macintosh Floppy Disks in the New Millennium As time passes and floppy disks become relics of computing’s past (especially in the Macintosh world), folks seem to be confronting more problems accessing information stored on this older format. This page attempts to address methods and workarounds for accessing data on Macintosh floppy disks (using Apple Macintosh and clone hardware) and moving the desired data to newer Mac systems. Can’t Be Read “Hey! I’ve got a floppy drive on my Mac, and it reads some floppies just fine, yet not others. What’s the deal?” Depends. Below are the most common scenarios: 400k and/or 800k Floppies with an External USB Floppy Drive As is well documented, modern Macs from this millennium (and some before) no longer come with built-in floppy drives.

• No liability whatsoever is assumed for any damages of any kind caused by misuse or by other equipment, or for trouble or damage incurred by unauthorized repair or alteration. • Products with defects caused during manufacturing will gladly be replaced. No liability whatsoever is assumed for defects due to other causes.

For now, if one straight jump from your very old Mac to your very new Mac is not working, try the Puddle Jumping method of intermediate steps, or some other option. How to download flash for mac. Internet While not especially elegant, if the older Mac can go online, this may be an easy option. Email Any files on floppy disks are by definition small enough to travel well via email.

Try another drive for reading. Also, the insert again again again trick can sometimes help here, as well. Floppy Drive Mechanical/Lubrication Problems A given drive’s lubrication may be gummed up, leading to intermittent or ongoing failures to read. As i was researching updated/corrected information for this article on 29 June 2016, i encountered the mechanical/lubrication problem on a Mac IIsi. I had cleaned/lubed the machine’s internal floppy drive in 1999, but it had not been used much since then. When i first inserted two different floppies (400k MFS and 800k HFS, under Systems 7.0-7.5), the drive/OS/Mac considered them unreadable.

When you purchase ShippingPass you don't have to worry about minimum order requirements or shipping distance. No matter how small the order or how far it needs to go, ShippingPass provides unlimited nationwide shipping. If you need to return or exchange an item you can send it back at no cost or take it to your neighborhood store. To see if ShippingPass is right for you, try a 30-day free trial.

Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.

Note that older Macs and Mac OS versions were often used for years and years past the release date shown. USB Floppy Story “So wait what can I do with an external USB floppy drive on a newer (OS X era) Mac?” A surprising amount! Mac-Formatted HD 1.4 MB Floppy Disks in a USB External Drive with modern Macs Please note that my testing has been limited to one sample of one brand/model of drive: VST FDUSB-M, from around the time of the original iMac.

I assume this is what Finch is requesting. The floppy drive works fine, it's OS X's ability to read those floppies that appears to be in question. WOW, never really messed with my floppy drive that much, just stuck in a known good PC formatted floppy and it read it. Not that I will ever need that in my entire life, but hey, still cool. Finch, if you are getting your error, the floppy drive must be having issues reading the format of the floppy disk, you may want to see if you can verify it's functionality (floppy) in a system with a old fashion floppy drive. Thanks everyone for your valued imput.

Rumors circulated circa 1987 that due to lower demand for single-sided 400k diskettes, Sony merely ran the same production line for double-sided 800k and single-sided 400k, marking them differently and probably not QAing the second side for the ones being sold as single-sided. Someone found out that the less expensive Sony single-sided 3.5' diskettes sold new during this period more often than not formatted successfully as 800k double-sided. Older Sony single-sided disks and most single-sided disks from other manufacturers would behave as expected: they would fail to format as two-sided.

(Ironically it probably will work for 360K SS and 720K DS floppies from other platforms.) SCSI CD-R or CD-RW Drive This will jack right in (maybe with adapters) to any Mac from the Plus through the PB G3s and somewhere in the early Blue & White G3 desktops (though there are better options for anything that new). Add an appropriate Toast (not sure there was one for the Plus), write that CD, drop that CD in the new Mac, and get happy. Note that older versions of Toast, which may be required for the earliest Macs, will only support the oldest 1x/2x SCSI drives. This may not be the best way to go for 68000 Macs. Given the declining quality and dwindling availability of optical disc blanks, this may be more of an exercise in frustration than productivity. Zip Drive You may hate it, and most folks don’t recommend it for long-term storage, yet this format may bail out your butt!