We request you to purchase a DVD/CD-ROM drive. I would like to inform you that Windows 8 isn’t compatible with floppy drives. I see that you want to make Windows 8 compatible with floppy drives. Picture below of the working TEAC FD-05PUB hope it helps any other seekers of vintage floppies that need 720kb formatted on a modern Windows PC. Welcome to Microsoft Community Forums and thank you for choosing Windows 8. You all were extremely helpful figuring out what drive would do the trick. Windows 10 automatically recognizes that there is a DD floppy in the TEAC drive and formats accordingly. The format works easily by using the command prompt in Windows 10 and entering: Windows XP, Windows 2K, Windows ME, Windows 9X. Iomega Floppy Plus Card Reader Driver 1.0.7 29,168 downloads. I had to use a proprietary piece of software to transfer a disk image to a freshly formatted 720kb floppy for a Roland MC-500II sequencer made in the late 80's. Mac, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64 bit, Windows XP 64 bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP. It is an ugly case but it works flawlessly in Windows 10. Found my FD-05PUB from the early 00s on eBay for about $15. I bought a Sabrent floppy drive that is internally a TEAC drive that DID NOT WORK with 720kb, DD floppies - it was made after 2007. I registered so I could confirm that TEAC FD-05PUB floppy drives made in Japan (late 90s/early 00s) will format 720kb floppies. Versions are: Windows - Version 2.8 Mac - Version 2.8 Linux - Version 1.0 Please note The disk contains two different file systems as its a direct copy of the original disk. Seems to contain drivers for the ZIP 250 USB drive. I really appreciate all the insight everyone contributed to this topic. Iomega IomegaWare disk, Came with a Iomega ZIP 250 USB Drive. The USB FDD can be used without any problem, even though it is displayed as the 5-inch FDD.įormat /f:720 also works, at least in WIN 7 and earlier. When the USB FDD is connected with a 1.25-MB or 640-KB FD inserted, the 5-inch FDD icon may be displayed on the Explorer screen. However, it is possible to perform disk formatting on the USB-compliant FDD by specifying the following options at the command level prompt. Because of this restriction, when a 2DD (720 KB) disk is in the FDD, the Capacity section in the Format menu remains blank.
The OS permits you to format (initialize) only a floppy disk with 1.44-megabytes of capacity. Never had an issue formatting/reading/writing 720K diskettes in my 3.5" USB drive and never knew this was an issue FWIW, I use a Dynex DX-EF101 containing a YE Data YD-8U10 with the following capabilities:ĢHD 1.25MB: Read / Write (Japanese domestic format)ĢHD 1.21MB: Read / Write (Japanese domestic format) Floppy Drive Bays That Read 3.5' & 5.25' I Only Drive That Reads Both QIC and Inivin Tapes I Optimized tor.