HP Floppy Disk Drive - 1.44MB PC - USB 2.0 USB - 3.5 External

USB floppy drives seem to be something of a hit-or-miss proposition. I've tried several which purported to be able to read any kind of floppy, only to find that they saw more than half of the disks I tried as either unreadable or in need of formatting.This floppy drive works great. I went with HP, since my laptop is an HP model, and I haven't been disappointed. So far this drive has read everything I've put into it, and it was recognized instantly by the laptop I plugged it into. This model is quite a bit more expensive than many other models on the market, but what good is "saving" money if what you get doesn't work?Spending a little extra is worth it, if you get reliability. -This- drive works, and works reliably.

I purchased the HP after reading several disparaging reviews of the cheaper products.It arrived in a timely fashion and worked from the start on a Dell Latitiude running XP.It read about half the old floppies, and I couldn't discern why it was unable to read the others and wanted to format them, which, it warned, would erase all previous data, rendering the whole attempt pointless.I don't think the great American novel is lost to posterity thereby, and some of my daughter's articles might be interesting to her, so I'll keep it, but it is not the performer some reviewers state.

we needed a "legacy" piece of equipment. when our office upgraded again last year we lost the last of our legacy machines that had a built in floppy drive. time to get just such a drive, and we went with the HP. Candidly, the reviews of the more economical (i.e., cheaper) models confirmed what we have known for years ... you get what you pay for. We invested a bit more in the HP and are glad we did. Cannot compare to a cheaper model because we did not purchase the lower price; however, this piece of equipment worked just fine.

This floppy drive worked great. Just plugged it in to my new Lap Top Windows 10 and I am now able to move old files from my old win 98 computer and put them into my new computer. The old computer has only a floppy drive to remove files from its hard drive so this item is a life saver.

Ordered "Hewlett-Packard DC361B - HP Floppy Disk Drive 1.44 MB PC - USB 2.0 USB - 3.50 External" and got a Samsung SFD-321 U/HP Floppy Disk Drive- USB 2.0 USB that has been repaired or has been used. Has a REPLACE WITH COMPAQ SPARE label on the bottom of the unit. I have not tried to use it, so I do not know if it will even work.

This drive worked perfectly to get some old pictures and files from our old floppy discs. I used our HP Envy 360 with Windows 10. No issues at all.

I can not get the information to load onto my computer. I don't know what program i need to get the information to load. It is very frustrating.

I saved important documents on 3.5 inch "floppies." This media is obsolete so I wanted a used reader that was certain to work, and this one is. It arrived on time and was well packaged.